Did you know you’re supposed to clean your coffee maker?! Or am I the only who’s been living under a rock? LOL 🙂
Pot after pot of brewed coffee really takes a toll on those things! From hard water deposits, to lingering coffee oils going rancid overtime, it’s a good idea to give your coffee maker a good cleaning about once a month to purge it off all those impurities.
And as an extra bonus, your coffee will taste Ahh-mazing! Seriously, those first few pots of coffee after cleaning the machine taste so fresh and so clean!
So here’s what you do…
Fill up the carafe with 2 parts water and 1 part vinegar (or if this is your first time, do 1 part water to 1 part vinegar). Pour it into the machine, and run a regular cycle.
When it’s finished, let the pot cool down for about 15 minutes. Then discard the liquid and rinse the pot. I like to leave a little in the bottom of the pot and swirl it around with a scrub brush to clean the carafe.
Fill it up again with just water, and run 1-2 more cycles to help rinse out any leftover vinegar from the machine.
That’s it! You’re now on your way to a cleaner machine, and much tastier coffee! 🙂
Tiny Tip Tuesday Blog Hop!
Now for the blog hop! Thanks so much to everyone who joined us and shared their awesome links last week! If you missed them, head on over and check them out! Here are the top three most clicked links from last week! Congratulations, ladies! Feel free to grab the featured button below! 🙂 NOTE: Featured links will also be added to my “Featured on Tiny Tip Tuesday!” board on Pinterest, as well as shared on my Facebook and Twitter pages. 🙂
1. Sustainable Shaving Options by A Life Unprocessed
2. 25 Magical Things To Make With Coconut Oil by Revitalise Your Health
3. Preserving Beans by Crunchy Farm Baby
Alright, now what are YOUR tips for this week?
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sue johnson
Mar 24, 2014 at 2:00 pmi use the hot vinegar to clean the drains–after running the vinegar through the coffee maker, put a cup of homade drain cleaner(1/2 cup salt+1/2 cup baking soda) down each drain follwed by 1 cup hot vinegar–finish cleaning your coffee maker. go back to your drains, rinsing them with hot water and they will drain beautifully–and the vinegar does double-duty!!
Sarah
Mar 24, 2014 at 9:43 pmThat’s an awesome idea, Sue! Thanks for the tip 🙂
María- modelos en Ecuador.
Sep 14, 2012 at 5:56 pmOops I have washed my coffee before but have never done it the way you explain it, I’ll do it right now thank you very much
PineappleMama
Jul 24, 2012 at 3:51 pmgreat tip! thanks a bunch!
Krissa
Jul 21, 2012 at 2:00 pmI’m going to clean my coffee maker today! I have done it once before but this reminds me I need to do it more often. And so fun to find this link-up…lots of great stuff here!
Jenni@MomEssentials.
Jul 20, 2012 at 10:48 pmHi Tiny Tip Tuesday!
Thanks for letting me share my own recipe of delicious, healthy mayo!
Here’s the link:
http://www.momessentials.net/delicious-healthy-mayo-spicy-or-mil/
SusieEarning-My-Cape
Jul 20, 2012 at 8:15 pmGreat tip! I love using vinegar for cleaning!
Thank you for sharing with my Super Link Party! 🙂
German Lavado de mue
Jul 19, 2012 at 10:12 pmWow I love the advice to clean the coffee very helpful I have washed mine but not very thoroughly explained as ud in this post, thank you very much then I’m going to do
Sarah
Jul 21, 2012 at 2:19 amThat’s great, German! Your coffee will taste so much better 🙂
vicki
Jul 17, 2012 at 6:38 pmThese are all great tips! Thanks for hosting Sarah!
Leah M
Jul 17, 2012 at 5:38 pmThanks for the reminder to clean my coffee pot! AND for featuring my post from last week! 🙂 Linked up again!
Sarah
Jul 18, 2012 at 5:09 pmYou’re very welcome, Leah! Thanks so much for partying with us 🙂
Brenda Farris
Jul 17, 2012 at 12:49 pmI never clean my coffee maker. I can’t even imagine how much better my coffee would taste if i did lol!
Sarah
Jul 17, 2012 at 1:24 pmOh Brenda, I never used to either, but it really does make a huge difference! 🙂
Teresa
Aug 27, 2012 at 2:42 amI have used this process to clean my coffee maker and it works great. I do want to offer a tip about what to do with the left over vinegar/water solution. If you have any weeds growing in the joints of your concrete you can pour this solution over them. As the weeds dry out in the sun the mixture will help to kill them and this is much safer than using commercial weed killing sprays.