How To Change The Water Filter On A Keurig 2.0

Your Keurig might help elevate you out of bed each forenoon with the odour of coffee. Only just as your Keurig takes intendance of yous, you must also take care of information technology, else the coffee it brews and the machine itself volition degrade over time.

Not only should y'all clean your Keurig by descaling information technology every iii to 6 months, you should also supercede thewater filter every few months. Here's how.

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When to replace a Keurig charcoal filter

The purifying filter in the water reservoir on your Keurig is designed to last a finite number of brew cycles, non whatever detail length of fourth dimension. The less you use your Keurig, the less frequently yous should demand to supplant it.

Keurig says its filters should exist changed every ii months. But if you're not brewing every day, it suggests you change the filter every 60 tank refills. Yous could also get into the habit of descaling the Keurig every other filter change.

Some newer Keurig models allow you to set up a water filter reminder so there's no guesswork in when you should replace the filter.

Similar any other charcoal filter, once it's spent, it will no longer filter the h2o in the reservoir like it should. This volition non merely bear on the quality of the coffee, but tin can touch how quickly particulates will build up inside the auto.

Most newer Keurig models (salvage for function-fashion, Rivo and K200 models) use the same charcoal filters, and they tin be plant in well-nigh major retailers that sell Keurigs. Yous tin can also notice them online for as fiddling equally 65 cents each (they're about 90p in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland or AU$4 in Australia).

How to replace a Keurig charcoal filter

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One time the existing h2o filter in your Keurig is spent, replacing it with a new ane volition take less than ten minutes.

Start by soaking a new charcoal filter in a loving cup of h2o for 5 minutes or so.
While the new filter is soaking, remove the former filter by gently pulling up on the filter holder.
Remove the clip that holds the filter in place by pressing in both sides.
Discard the spent filter.
Later the new filter has soaked for 5 minutes, rinse it for 60 seconds.
Rinse the filter holder and the bottom clip.
Insert the new charcoal filter into the filter holder and reinstall the clip that holds it in identify.
Rotate the punch to the month that you lot should supplant the filter adjacent. (Older filter holders just highlight a single month, while newer ones highlight the date yous installed the new filter and when you should replace it.)
Reinstall the filter holder in the water reservoir by firmly pressing until it locks into place.

After that, you'll exist ready to brew for a few months without having to worry well-nigh the h2o filter.

Notation that if you experience the water filter isn't doing its task and y'all don't have a replacement on manus, y'all can likewise utilize prefiltered water in a pinch.