Having a clean, fresh and healthy house is super important to most people. Yet many people do not regularly clean the inside of their coffee makers.
You probably spent a fair whack of cash to buy your coffee machine, so why throw that money out the window by not doing regular maintenance? Doing regular maintenance on your coffee maker will give it a much longer life-span. And why bother buying nice fresh coffee, if you are just going to run it through a nasty, smelly coffee machine?
How to clean out your coffee brewer:
1. Tip out any old coffee grinds from your filter basket, and rinse thoroughly with hot water.
2. Make yourself a vinegar cleaning mix (2/3 boiling water and 1/3 vinegar, or citric acid). Pour this cleaning mix into your machines water reservoir and coffee pot. Let stand for at least 10 minutes.
3. Empty our the coffee pot and run a full cycle of your coffee machine, using the cleaning mix from your water reservoir.
5. When the cycle has finished, let everything stand for another 15 minutes or so.
6. If it’s been a long time since you cleaned the inside of your machine, you may want to repeat steps 2-5 again.
7. Now give everything a good rinse with fresh hot boiling water. Run one or two cycles through your coffee brewer to get rid of the vinegar taste.
8. Hey Presto!!! You now have a fresh, clean and healthy coffee machine.
If you follow these steps every 1 or 2 dozen cycles, you will have far better coffee, and keep your machine running for longer. If you aren’t a regular coffee drinker, you should still do this every few months to stop the calcium build up in your pipes. Maybe write down a reminder on your calendar so you don’t forget!
Billy’s site is a guide to coffee machines including where to find the best coffee makers. There are independent ratings and reviews of coffee makers and more advice about cleaning coffee makers.