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How to Clean a Drip Coffee Maker Machine Like a Pro – Tips for Cleaning

July 2, 2018 By Ryan A. Guess Leave a Comment

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How does it feel when your coffee tastes awful day after day.

No! It is not that you are doing something wrong it’s just that you haven’t cleaned the coffee brewer for a while.

To have a great cup of drip coffee every day you require to clean it a few times a year.

Steps To Clean The Coffee Maker

A stepwise process is required to clean the coffee maker and even a few of them will be repeated. And by following the procedure you will be achieving a completely pure and rinsed device. With the basic few steps to process you will be cleaning your drip coffee maker effectively and precisely.

With the basic few steps to process you will be cleaning your drip coffee maker effectively and precisely.

Step 1: Prepare the mixture

Here, you have to make a diluted mixture of white vinegar and water. This solution will help you clean all the dirt and mineral depositions inside the coffee maker very easily. Moreover, using this mixture the bacteria content inside the coffee maker is also eliminated completely.

Prepare the mixture

The mixture here should be a 3 cup water and a 3 cup white vinegar solution prepared in a jar (you can mix it according to the capacity of your coffee brewer, but the mixture should be in this ratio). Drip Coffee Ratio – Know the Perfect Coffee to Water Ratio for Drip Coffee is for your tips and tricks. Go through and Share Your Experience with us.

Step 2: Place the Filter

Place the Filter

Now you need to place the filter in the coffee maker where you usually place it. This filter will filter the granular content that is present in the coffee maker so that we can throw them out.

Using filter here will collect all the granular and mineral deposits all over the coffee maker. Thus you can just remove the filter later and throw the waste.

Step 3: Add the mixture

Add the mixture that you prepared earlier into the coffee maker. You have to add this to the water tank where you normally insert the water for brewing the coffee. This will run the mixture all over the coffee maker as it does with the water and hence clean the coffee brewer completely.

This will run the mixture all over the coffee maker as it does with the water and hence clean the coffee brewer completely.

Step 4: Turn on the coffee maker

After placing the carafe in its place and closing the cover of the coffee maker after adding the solution, turn on the coffee maker.

This will start the process which will heat the mixture and pass it through the pipes and the filter into the carafe.

Thus the salt deposition or any mineral deposition inside the pipe and other parts will be cleaned as you turn the brewer on.

Step 5: Remove the filter

After the whole mixture is being processed and is filled in the carafe you can remove the filter from its place. You will see there is small granular waste inside the filter.

Throw the filter if it is the paper filter and clean it if it is a washable one. Place the filter in its position again.

Throw the filter if it is the paper filter and clean it if it is a washable one. Place the filter in its position again.

Step 6: Cool down

Let the coffee maker be as it is till it completely cools down. It may take 5 to 10 minutes.

Step 7: Rinse the carafe

Till the coffee maker is cooling down, you can take the carafe from its position.

See to it that it is not very hot. Now you need to rinse the carafe properly and place it back again.

Rinse the Carafe

Step 8: Repeat the entire process

You now need to repeat the entire process again to make sure that the coffee brewer is cleaned completely well. But this time you have to so that using the plain water. This will clean the coffee maker and make him.

This will clean the coffee maker and make it free from the vinegar completely.

If you want you can repeat the process again with the water to make sure that the coffee maker is completely rinsed.

This is the end of the process and your drip coffee brewer is now clean. So, the next time you brew your coffee you will be getting a delicious cup of coffee.

However, there are various other items that can be used instead of white vinegar such as salt and ice, denture tablets, citric acid and at last you have the commercial coffee pot cleaner.

Conclusion​

So this was our take on how to clean a drip coffee maker.

If you need to learn more about cleaning a coffee maker, let us know.

We'll be glad to help you up!​

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