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Notes on the Ninja Single Serve Pods or Grounds coffee maker.

This is the most obviously cad-cam designed item I've ever owned.

It would be spectacular if molded with steel.

Much of it could be 3D printed.

The coffee is hotter than the Keurig ever brewed. After writing all of this, it is still as warm as the Keurig brews were, at their hottest.

It has an algorithm to determine the temperature water boils at, in case you live in Denver or Salt Lake City. I don't happen to, but if you do, calibration is an added step in the initialization process.

That might have something to do with how hot the brew is. I didn't run the calibration. It is a bit steamy at a couple of hundred feet above sea level. Not excessively. It could probably steam up a sauna at altitude.

My disposable k-cups do not fit. They have finger holds at the top that are too wide for the k-cup adapter. Boo. Hiss.

It comes with its very own scoop so that the manufacturer has the ability to let you know how much ground coffee to add. 2 scoops for this brew.

It took a solid hour to unbox it, clean it, and run a first, water-only, 24 oz brew. 5 minutes of that was spent getting glue and thread off of part of the unit when the packing tape shredded instead of came off in one spot.

Its included brewing basket is nice. Easy to clean. I can live without reusable k-cups.

What I used for a 24 oz brew was too small. It definitely serves proper sizes. The tall mug I'm drinking from now holds 10 oz nicely.

There are more brew sizes available than with the Keurig. I like that a lot.

It pauses during brewing, and restarts, more than once. The resulting Classic brew is likely richer-flavored than it would be otherwise.

It has more options and costs about half the price of the Keurig I used to use, which becomes my emergency spare now, in need of deep cleaning.

At first blush, this is a nice machine.

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