8 Step Cleaning Coffee Makers Environmentally Friendly Guide

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 up your cleaning mix (2/3 boiling water water and 1/3 vinegar). Fill your coffee brewer’s water reservoir and your coffee pot, and let stand to soak for 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 you haven’t cleaned your machine in a while, you might want to repeat steps 2-5 a second time.

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.

8 steps, not too difficult or costly. If you can clean your machine thoroughly like this regularly, you will really notice the difference. Not just to the taste of your morning brew, but to the life of your machine. If you use your machine everyday, once a month or so would be good. If you aren’t a daily drinker of coffee, still try to do this every few months. Writing down the date on your calendar will help you remember.

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