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How to Get Rid of Plastic Taste in Coffee Maker? | Easy DIY Methods

March 8, 2019 By Sergio L. Bailey Leave a Comment

Have you recently had a gross tasting coffee from your coffee maker which has plastic components in its brewing channel? Then, it is most possibly a case where you have ingested the plastic from either the reservoir or the brewing channel of your coffee maker. In fact, a new coffee maker tastes like plastic common phenomenon. To solve this problem, we have prepared a fool-proof method of cleaning the coffee machine to eliminate the leaching plastics of the coffee maker.

Coffee Tastes Like Plastic

Plastic is nowhere close to being edible or harmless to neglect in any case. Moreover, the plastics are made from two types of chemicals for toughening the base plastic material. These chemicals are namely the Bisphenol-A(BPA) or the Phthalates which are responsible for the plastic taste you’ve had in your coffee.

However, due to recent advancements, some of the coffee maker brands have stopped using the plastics made from BPA or Phthalates. Moreover, the water reservoir of the coffee machine labeled as recycling grade 7, contains BPA. On the other hand, Phthalates is an important ingredient for manufacturing PVC material used in coffee makers.

Coming to the plastic taste in coffee maker again, hence, hot temperatures causes BPA and Phthalates to break from the bond of its parent plastic material and mixes with the fluid. This is the major reason for coffee from machines such as Keurig tastes like plastic. Some user even complained stating the Keurig 2.0 or Keurig plastic taste won’t go away.

Preventive Methods

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Avoiding the plastic addition from the coffee can be simple if you go for the coffee machines made from the BPA-free body. It even means that the coffee machine shall not have PVC material anywhere close to the high-temperature region.

This is the only way out to get the taste of plastic out from your coffee. Otherwise, you will keep getting the plastic taste after a few months of brewing the coffee. So, if you are about to get a coffee maker which does not produce coffee tasting like plastic then go for the BPA-free materials.

Apart from that, if your coffee maker brews the coffee with the plastic taste. Then, you shall follow the homemade method of cleaning given in the next section. Moreover, customers of the Keurig machine complain about the Keurig plastic taste.

How to Get Rid of Plastic Taste in Coffee Maker?

This section describes the method of cleaning the coffee maker which produces coffee that tastes bad. It is a child’s play if you have been using the coffee machine for a while. Because this process slightly varies from your regular coffee maker cleaning process.

1. Empty the Coffee Maker

Start with flushing everything from the machine out. Water from the reservoir and channels, coffee from the basket and brewer channel.

2. Fill Water Reservoir with Vinegar and Water equally

Now, fill the reservoir of the machine with vinegar and water one after other in similar proportion. Keep the level of the solution raised high for maximum cleaning.

Remember, you can keep the level of the solution up to the third quarter of the reservoir without changing the water-vinegar proportion.

3. Start the Cleaning Cycle

Some machines will have the cleaning or flushing button, press that button to start the cleaning process. Place a vessel beneath the output pipe to collect the wastewater and dispose of it in the sink. If your machine does not have the designated cleaning mode then click any of the brewing buttons to start the cleaning process.

4. Repeat the Process Once Again with Water

Again, fill the reservoir completely with water and follow the same process for rinsing the machine thoroughly.

5. Repeat the Cleaning Process Until the Plastic Taste Vanishes

Finally, you will have your coffee machine free from the plastic taste blending in the brew. You can repeat these four steps until you find the plastic taste vanishing from the equation totally.

THE ENDNOTE

You know how to take care of the taste of plastic blending in your coffee. However, if you have to perform the cleaning repetitions for more than five times then you may consider getting a BPA-free coffee maker.

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