Cleaning a Coffee Maker

Your coffee maker could be doing you more harm than good. There are several benefits to a good cup of coffee, but of your coffee maker is not clean, it could also be doing you some harm. Do you remember when the last the you cleaned your coffee maker was? You should actually form a habit of giving it a thorough clean at least once a month, but do you even know how to clean your coffee maker? Here are some tips. Even though washing the pot is important to remove all of the coffee oils and mineral deposits, it is just as important to clean the entire coffee maker. It really is not as difficult or time consuming as it might seem, and it is well worth any effort to have a good, healthy cup of coffee, every time.

People often get consumed with the type of bean they use to the grind and forget to take into consideration that the coffee pot also plays a large role in how well your coffee will taste. The mineral deposits that form inside the reservoir are from the water that you use. Even if you use bottled water to make your coffee, even though it might take longer to collect, you will still get mineral deposits from any form of water that you use. When you get mineral scale and lime scale in your coffee pot, this can slow down the functionality of the heating core and the reservoir, making your coffee pot less efficient.

Cleaning the pot is as easy as making a pot of coffee itself. All you will need to do is fill the pot with half water and half white vinegar. You will run that through your coffee pot and then empty the decanter and then you will want to run regular plain water through the brewing cycle again, maybe once or twice, depending on the scent of vinegar still present. You will want to continue to run plain water brew cycles until the smell of vinegar is no longer present.

Another tip on cutting down on the scale in the reservoir is to use a glass marble in the reservoir. The mineral deposits will cling to the marble instead of the reservoir and changing out the glass marble once a week is the best way to do this. You can also just take the same marble and rinse all of the deposits off with just plain water and a scrubber. It is not recommended that you use any type of cleaner.

Once again you will want to clean your coffee pot once a month and using both methods of the vinegar and the marble will be the best way to keep the coffee pot clean and have the best possible coffee, everyday.