How to Clean Coffee MakerClean your coffee maker regularly to ensure best quality. It's easy to forget about cleaning the inside of your coffee maker. However, a clean coffee maker is essential for the good taste of your coffee. Rinse it at least once a month if you use it lightly and every other week if you use your coffee maker on a daily basis. Knowing how to clean a coffee maker is easy if you follow a few simple steps. If you clean your coffee maker routinely then calcium sediments most likely won't build up inside the unit. If you don’t then you will notice hard components of calcium sediments accumulated around the inside of it. A simple water solution and vinegar can be used for cleaning if you don’t see calcium build up. But if there already is a certain amount of build up inside of the coffee maker then you will need a good de-calcifying detergent Use Water Filters to Avoid Calcium Build UpIn order to avoid calcium build up in your coffee maker, always use a water filter. It does filter a huge amount of contaminants from your drinking water and once you have used filtered water, you never want to go back to normal tap water.Your coffee (and tea) just tastes a million times better when using water filters! Take out the Coffee Filter First!First you make sure there's no filter in the basket. If you have a permanent filter then you should be putting that into the dishwasher every day or at least a few times a week to keep it clean.Then you fill the water reservoir with water and vinegar. Usually a couple of tablespoons vinegar are enough to wash the coffee maker really well. Use Decalcifier or Water-vinegar SolutionStart your coffee maker and let the solution brew through the unit. Turn off your coffee machine when it's half way finished with the pot. Leave it like this for at least 15 minutes and then turn it on again. This time let the remainder of the solution brew through until it has completed the brewing process and there is no more of the solution inside of the reservoir. If you choose to use a decalcifier Don't forget to clean with Fresh WaterOnce the solution has run through the coffee maker entirely you dump the coffee pot and fill it with fresh water. Fill the reservoir and run a full pot of water through the coffee maker. This allows for rinsing away all of the vinegar so you don’t have any remnants making your cup of coffee taste truly awful. Some people like to brew a couple pots of water to be sure they have all of the vinegar out of the unit. If you are an avid coffee drinker then you know how fast calcium can build up in a coffee maker. It is important to clean your coffee maker minimum once a month. This is important because the taste of your coffee will make it evident the coffee maker needs cleaning if you wait too long. By using water filters you can easily stretch the cleaning intervals to 6-8 months, instead of monthly :-)
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