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hey right Christopher CNET here talking today about the Keurig Vue v700 single serve coffee maker this is a coffee maker with a bit of a twist everything that Keurig is done up into this point has been a k-cup coffee maker and one that bruised a cup like this and this was Keurigs proprietary design that they licensed out to other manufacturers but still kept the Keurig name associated with the problem is is that the patent on the cake cup expired in 2012 so what Keurig did was they came out with this and this is called a Vue pack and the Vue pack is a little different than the k-cup the Vue pack is shorter it's a little fatter and unlike the K cup which gets punctured from the top and the bottom with water going straight through the Vue pack only gets punctured in the top and what happens is the water goes in it steeps with the coffee and then it pours out through this little teapot like spout into your drink and supposedly this spout makes for a little bit better brew a little stronger but one thing I like best about the Vue pack is that it's recyclable k cups aren't you just peel the top off of a Vue pack and the plastic that's left behind is number 5 which is recyclable in most areas also another perk is that the Vue packs come in multiple sizes you have this one and also a large sized one and that will give you a really good tasting talk of a coffee for like a travel mug so how about the view itself well the v700 is a pretty bulky coffee maker as you can see it's a little bit bloated and designed and that's partly because it's got this nice 74 ounce reservoir here that comes out for easy fill ups but one of my problems is is that you've got this kind of symmetrical design and they replicated the bulkiness of the reservoir on the side that doesn't have a reservoir so it feels like a lot of wasted space over here that said there are some features of the Vue v700 that we like a lot and this little drink tray is one of them it's really easy you just pull it up and twist it and you get a slightly higher platform for your drink to sit on and then up here the sort of showcase feature of the view is the touch screen it's a full LCD color touchscreen and it's really easy to use it's very responsive it's very fast and it's very well designed if you want to simplify your drink it gives you a lot of options and it makes it very easy to use those options to get the exact beverage you want so is the viewer recommended by well it depends if you want to make really good coffee from a pod we say yes the Vue v700 retails online for about $200 and that's a pretty comparable price point for other models that do a similar job we also enjoyed the Cuisinart SS 700 and really like the Bunn my cafe MCU so if you're thinking about the Keurig take a look at those as well this is the Keurig Vue v700 for Cena I'm Rui Chris