Keurig 2.0 non-Keurig K-Cup hack

With the holidays upon us, it’s likely that you may give or receive a Keurig coffee maker this season. Unless you’re able to find one of the original Keurig models, chances are you’ll be dealing with the new Keurig 2.0 version which has a “copy protection” type feature that prevents you from using non K-Cup branded single serve coffee cups or packs.

Shortly after the Keurig 2.0s came out, people figured out that all you had to do to beat the machine’s protection was to lay a lid of a genuine K-Cup on top of the lid of your aftermarket single-serve coffee, and the Keurig would brew. It utilizes an optical sensor that looks for the presence of a specific ink and measures the light wavelength to determine if the ink on the lid is genuine.

You can see this method below, but this video maker has taken it to the next level. You don’t even need the entire lid, and you can tape a piece of the lid over the sensor to effectively “permanently” trick your Keurig into brewing whatever you want.

Here’s how to do it:

Or, watch it larger on YouTube.