subject: Coffee Pot: How Do You Clean One? [print this page] There are many ways that you can clean a coffee pot and it depends on what type of pot you are cleaning. There are many types of coffee pot and each one could have different designs and ways of cleaning it. If the coffee pot you bought is of high quality, the cleaning options are usually explained clearly as part of its manual information sheet. One of the best tips to follow is that you should remember to regularly clean your coffee pot so that stains do not accumulate which will not be easy to remove later. Below are different options of coffee pot cleaning depending on the type of coffee pot you have at home.
If you own the classic, regular type of coffee pots:
This could easily be done manually and the following suggestion could help you learn how to do it.
- For soaking purposes, create a mix of solutions. Mix the following ingredients: vinegar, wood ash, dishwashing liquid and water. After mixing all the said ingredients, fill your coffee pot with it until it is full up to its brink and let it stay there the whole night.
- In the morning, you get a soft scrub and rub it on the inner walls of the coffee pot while the solution is still there.
- While the solution still fills the pot, put the pot in the stove up to the boiling point before switching the stove off.
- Pour out the solution and add more dishwashing liquid on the scrub and scrub once more the inner wall of the pot.
- Rinse thoroughly the coffee pot and see if there are still coffee stains on it. Dishwashing liquid and more soft ash would be your next option in case you see that there are still coffee stains in your pot.
- Using warm water, rinse your coffee pot exhaustively and make sure there are no more traces of dishwashing liquid.
- Using just plain water on the soft scrub, clean the pot one more time with tap water and scrub it without any active ingredient such as dishwashing liquid. Rinse it once more and turn it upside down for it to dry.
If you have the electric drip type of coffee maker at home, here's how to clean it:
- Take out the glass pot, fill it up and soak it with a mixture of dishwashing liquid, vinegar and water. What is does is that the vinegar has the capability to soften any residue of coffee stains and at the same time kill any germs that lives in the pot and its filter.
- The morning after, you must switch the coffee maker on the same way when you brew some coffee but instead of coffee, use the solution you used to soak the machine.
- Once the "brewing process" using the dishwashing liquid, water and vinegar" is done, do the same thing over again using water and vinegar solution only. This could thoroughly cleanse the remaining greasy substance off the filter section as well as the tube and the glass pot. Not only does this remove the dishwashing liquid, it also removes any odor.
- The final procedure which you need to do after the vinegar and water combination is to do the same brewing process using plain water - this is to ensure that any ingredient that you used for cleaning is thoroughly washed out.
