How to Clean Your Home Coffee Maker
Ever woke up and went to make coffee but the sight of your coffee maker makes you not want coffee! In this "how to" article it will show you the easiest and cleanest way to clean as well as disinfect your coffee stained coffee maker. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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How to Clean Your Home Coffee Maker
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Take out all coffee grounds and water before beginning to clean your coffee maker, and dispose in trash can.
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Fill up your coffee pot with hot water and pour into where the water is stored for making coffee. If there is no room for more water, minimize the water just a little so that the bleach will be able to fit inside as well.
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Pour 1/2 cup of the Clorox bleach inside the water and let sit for 15 minutes to clean and disinfect that area as well.
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Turn your coffee maker on and allow it to complete its cycle. Let stand for 30 minutes, then pour water and bleach mixture into the sink.
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Fill coffee pot once again with hot water and pour into coffee maker. Turn it on and let it complete its cycle one more time to rinse out all of the residue of the bleach.
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Empty coffee pot once more and place clean pot inside coffee maker. You are now ready to make a pot of coffee in your extra clean and disinfected coffee maker.
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Tips & Warnings
Be sure that you do not skip step 5, rinsing your pot is necessary to remove excess bleach residue.
- Photo Credit Jeanne Marie Kerns
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Comments
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newsview
Feb 14, 2010
FYI: Chlorinated drinking water, in much lower concentrations, mind you, has been implicated in bladder cancer, and chlorine in indoor pools causes asthma attacks in some and hyper-reactive airways in pro swimmers, even. You do NOT want to risk leaving so much chlorine behind in the coffeemaker by rinsing only once and using such a large quantity of bleach when just a few drops will disinfect equally well. If the plastic/parts smells of chlorine no matter how much water you rinse the machine with, you will have to set it out in the sun to entirely dry out and "off gas" before safe use. Also, chlorine will pit the metal elements and make the plastic become brittle, thereby increasing the risk of damaging your coffeemaker and/or causing a leak. In some cases, chlorine can also discolor light colors both hair, plastic and certain fabrics in strong amounts too. That is why you don't ... -
newsview
Feb 14, 2010
It only takes one drop of bleach to disinfect an entire gallon of water, and more than that can make you sick. An entire half cup is too much, especially if you follow step 5, and rinse only once. You need to rinse it out at least 5 times with a FULL carafe of water and use no more than a teaspoon of bleach. Otherwise, the steam will contain chlorine gas and that is extremely dangerous to breath in at such high concentration. I would take this advice with a grain of salt. Plastic can absorb chlorine odors and then you will have a clean coffeemaker but off tasting/smelling coffee. NOT a good idea.
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jillybeanusn
Nov 30, 2009
I have never tried bleach...I usually use vinegar.
