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Home and Office Coffee Maker Maintenance
For great tasting coffee, keep your equipment clean!
and buy fresh coffee from Doug's Mugs Coffee
New Maker
Clean a brand new coffee pot prior to using it for the first time! This is the only time that you should use soapy water in the carafe. Thoroughly rinse the carafe, fill the chamber with water and run a pot of water without coffee. Discard the water.
*** Never use
the carafe or pot to fill the chamber!
Coffee residue will get into the inner workings of your
coffee maker and spoil your coffee and shorten the life of your maker. Use
a separate pitcher.
Routine Cleaning – How to Clean your Coffee Maker
There are many types of at home coffee makers: Drip, French Press, Percolators, stove top Espresso pots. This article covers the cleaning of our basic American style drip coffee maker.
For your best tasting coffee and to prolong the life of your beloved drip maker, you should clean it once a month. This will help to remove scale from hard water deposits and old coffee oils that become rancid and ruin the flavor of fresh coffee.
If it has been a while since you have cleaned your coffee pot, you might have to start with a 50-50 solution of water and vinegar. Otherwise, use 1/3 vinegar and 2/3 water solution. Make enough to fill the coffee pot.
Put a filter in your coffee maker and fill the water reservoir with the cleaning solution.
Run your coffee maker until the pot is full and then discard the filter paper. Turn off the coffee maker and let the pot cool.
Empty the coffee pot and run another pot of clean water through your coffee maker. This will flush the remaining vinegar solution. Smell the water after the pot fills. If you smell vinegar, discard this pot and run another pot of clean water through your maker.
That’s it! Fast and simple!
Notes:
1. Some people put a glass marble in the reservoir to attract hard minerals from the water. If you try it, wash the marble once a week.
2. Hard stains can sometimes be removed from the glass pot by using ice cubes, a little water and some salt. Swirl the mixture around for a few minutes. Some people add a little lemon juice.
3. Never use soap in the carafe or reservoir and don’t use run either in a dishwasher. Soap binds with the coffee oils and leaves a bad taste.
4. Alternative cleaning mixtures;
a. store-bought coffee maker cleaner like tabzb. 1 part baking soda to 4 parts warm waterc. 1 ounce citric acid and 4 cups hot water to dissolve acid, then 4 cups cold waterd. Pot of water and two denture tablets. Make sure tablets fully dissolve in container or it will be difficult to get out of the water reservoir.
