How To Reset Your Keurig Coffee Maker

Keurig is a trusted brand when it comes to coffee makers giving you a durable and quality coffee maker machine delivering great cup of coffee. Although Keurig coffee maker, just like with other appliances can also experience issues and problems and what better way to solve the issue is to simply reset the machine even after descaling solution is done. In here, we will tackle more Keurig coffee maker and how to reset Keurig when issues occur.

How to reset Keurig

Keurig coffee machines make use of hot water to brew coffee using the ground coffee pod. The K-cup holder is only able to handle one coffee pod that is why the pods are thrown after every brew.

Some of the common problems that Keurig coffee machine are as follows: alert light not turning off, Keurig coffee maker won’t turn on, rattling noise or other strange and unusual sound heard on Keurig machines, error codes displayed on the screen or Keurig machine touch screen inoperable.

Not all Keurig coffee makers have instructional manuals to reset coffee machine.

The steps and process for resetting a Keurig coffee maker varies with Keurig models you are going to reset. Here are the different reset options for different Keurig varieties.

Keurig K-Duo

Here how to reset a Keurig K-Duo model:

1. Press power button
2. Press and hold on both the 8 oz. and 10 oz. simultaneously for 5 seconds.

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Keurig 2.0 Coffee maker

Reset Keurig 2.0 by following the steps below:

1. Turn off and unplug Keurig coffee maker
2. Remove water reservoir from the machine
3. After 5 minutes, plug Keurig machine back to the power source
4. Turn On Keurig machine
5. Return water reservoir or water tank back
6. Open and then close the pod holder.

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Keurig Compact Coffee maker

1. Open and close coffee maker lid
2. Press and hold power button and then press in order small button then medium button and then large button.
3. Pressing the buttons will initiate the coffee maker to start priming. If nothing happens, repeat step 2 until machine starts to prime.
4. After machine is primed, open and close coffee maker lid again.
5. Press the size button that you want to use.

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Keurig Mini Coffee maker

To reset a Keurig Mini Coffee maker:

1. Open and close k-cup lever on the machine
2. Press the power button to turn machine off
3. Unplug power cord of the machine from the power source
4. Plug power cord back to the power outlet
5. Press power button to turn on coffee maker.

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Keurig K-Classic

Resetting this model is as simply as press and holding simultaneously the medium cup button, large cup button and the Auto off button.

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Keurig K-Supreme Plus

To reset this model of Keurig coffee maker, here’s how to do it:

1. Press any button on the machine to turn it on
2. Press and hold on the arrow button to enter the menu settings
3. Click Next
4. Click Advance option.
5. Click Factory Reset option. Factory resetting bring and restore machine to its default settings.
6. Press K button to confirm action. Coffee maker will now start the reset process.
7. After reset is complete, coffee maker will prompt user to unplug the machine from wall outlet for 10 seconds
8. After that, plug machine back to its power outlet.

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Aside from the different reset steps based on different Keurig machine, resetting Keurig machines can be done in two ways: Basic reset and Advanced reset.

Basic Reset:

1. Turn off Keurig
2. Unplug power cord from wall outlet
3. Remove water reservoir from Keurig.
4. Allow Keurig to stand unplugged and without the water tank for a few minutes.
5. After a few minutes, plug Keurig back to wall outlet.
6. Turn on Keurig
7. Place water reservoir back

Basic reset process is now complete.

Advanced Reset:

For advanced and latest Keurig models, you may need to do the advanced reset steps:

1. Simultaneously press the small and medium cup buttons.
2. Release pressing both buttons
3. Immediately press Menu buttons 3x.
4. A clock display appears that reads “6:09”
5. Press menu button again if clock display appears.
6. The display will now show Brew 0:00
7. Press Medium mug button, then press and release Menu button (still pressing the medium mug button)
8. Press the small mug button. Do this while still pressing on the medium mug button.
9. Unplug and plug Keurig a few times.
10. Plug Keurig again for the last time. This will complete the advanced reset process for Keurig

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How to reset a Keurig Coffee maker after descaling the machine

Descaling is a process used to clean and remove calcium build up from the machine using a Keurig’s descaling solution made up of water, citric acid, with traces of silica, bleach and phosphate.

Keurig owners are encourage to descale their coffee maker every 3 to 5 months or depending on how often the machine coffee make is used to make hot coffee. Most of the time, descaling is the first step when fixing issues on your coffee maker then resetting the machine when descaling process is unable to fix issues. For instance, to prevent k cups to overflow from water reservoir, the exit needle should be carefully cleaned. As we may know, calcium carbonate levels can build up therefore descaling is needed.

A Keurig Duo, is a combination between K-cup coffee maker and a drip coffee maker, basically an ideal type of coffee maker.

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Final Thoughts

If you are experiencing issues with Keurig, try the simple solutions first such as cleaning and descaling the machine. If all else fails and still issue persists, you may need to reset the machine. Resetting is very simply and easy. Resetting process varies with Keurig models, refer to the steps in this post accordingly.