Friday, June 4, 2010

Smart Tips to Clean Your Coffee Maker

Do you have a habit cleaning coffee maker after a while? Do you find that your coffee does not seem to be as fragrant as before? Then it is time to clean your coffee maker.

Among many cleaning tips, it is noted that vinegar is the most effective and common way to clean coffee makers.

Pour vinegar (general guideline: 1 cup of vinegar to 4 cups of water) into the coffee maker as though as you are making coffee

Remove the filter (optional) and turn the coffee maker on. This will help to remove the calcium deposits or other impurities.

Repeat this till the deposits are gone.

Run plain water through the maker again.

Wash the carafe in warm water with sponge.

It is important that you clean the drip filter coffee maker frequently (general guideline: as least once a month) to remove hard water deposits (scale), impurities and leftover coffee deposits. You will only be able to clean the external components of the machine but to clean the internal components, you might want to use the above mentioned steps to clean the machine.

If you do not have any vinegar, some other alternatives are:

1 part of baking soda to 4 parts of water

coffee maker cleaners

1 oz citric acid to 4 cups of water

Making sure that you look after the coffee maker will enable you to prolong the life of it. With the cost of living increasingly, you might want to try the above tip to make your coffee maker work harder and make it value for money.

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