Cleaning Coffee Makers

[Spudszz]

How do you clean a coffee maker?

[Green Bean]

Other than the obvious soap and water on the pot and the grounds-holder, and assuming it is an ordinary drip coffeemaker:

Run a solution of 1 part distilled white vinegar to 3 parts water through the machine. In other words, pour the solution into the water-holder and let the macine "brew." You will smell the lovely hot-vinegar odor!

If this is the first time the machine has been cleaned in a while, do another run with the solution.

Then run plain water through to "rinse."

That's it! They make fancy expensive cleaning fluids, but all they are are mild acids. The vinegar is a mild acid, too, and works just as well.

[ultress]

Green Bean is absolutely right. Vinegar is the best cleaner to use.

[handy]

You read the instructions!

If they steam, its time to clean.