Cleaning the coffee pot. No white vinegar. Will either of these do?

Factual Questions
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I’m lazy and don’t feel like going to the store. :slight_smile:

I want to clean the drip brewer, but don’t have any regular white vinegar. Can I use either of these with the same effect?

  1. White wine vinegar.

  2. Red wine vinegar.

Would anything else work? The coffee pot hasn’t been used for a couple months due to free coffee at work. I have a bottle of Bailey’s and want the freshest coffee I can get.

If you have to link to some super-duper self-cleaning urn you have, go ahead. But I just want to know how to clean this maker.

Any suggestions? Thanks

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As far as I can tell, it doesn’t make any difference what kind of vinegar you use.

http://www.versatilevinegar.org/faqs.html

Now, see, I did not know that, so I learned something tonight.

Probably the reason you’re always told to use white vinegar is it’s cheaper than white wine vinegar.

About.com says to use citric acid, anyway, FWIW.

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Use whatever is cheapest, or oldest and needs used up. Almost any acid will do.

4

Go ahead and use either. As DDG noted, white vinegar is recommended because it is the cheapest.

5

So what do you do, let it sit in there for a while or just run it through as if you were making coffee? And I assume run some water through afterwards?

6

Thanks for the responses. I figured it wouldn’t make much difference.
panache45, what you do is run approximately 4:1 water to vinegar through a cycle then run 2 cycles of straight water. Increase water cycles as needed if vinegar is still present. You can tell by the smell.

Anyway, thanks again all.