This is some useful info I know from my own experience and from internet about coffee makers. You often ask what the best coffee maker is and how long it will serve you. A great deal depends on how you care about it. It is very important to keep your coffee maker clean, so that it worked for a long time and you could serve the best aromatic coffee.\r\n\r\nThese are several advices how to keep your maker clean:\r\n\r\nWash your coffee maker pot and filter container thoroughly with a lot of fresh water and plenty of soap at least once a week. Bitter oils stick to the glass container and plastic filter holder. Btw, the flavor of your coffee may improve instantly after you washed filter container and the glass pot!\r\nAnother trick is every time you use your coffeepot, put a couple of drops of liquid dishwashing detergent in the pot and run hot water into the pot. Let this sit on the counter till you need it again, rinse and you are ready to go. This does not replace the weekly or washing but helps keep maker cleaner between washings. Of course, don't put dishwashing detergent in the pot if you are making another pot right away. \r\nSome drip coffee makers require periodic cleansing with a solution of water and vinegar.\r\nIf you have a coffee/teapot, the inside of which is stained with oily brown residues - also plastic/metal coffee filters, tea strainers, and stainless steel sinks in caffeine-o-phile houses - they can be restored to a shining, brand-spanking-new state by washing in hot washing powder (detergent).\r\nGet a large plastic jug, add 2 or 3 heaped tablespoons of Daz Automatic or Bold or whatever, and about a pint of hot water - just off the boil is the best.\r\nSwill the jug around until the detergent is dissolved, and then pour into tea/coffeepot, and let it stand for 5 minutes, swilling the pot around occasionally, just to keep the detergent moving. Put the lid on and shake it a few times (care: slippery + hot)\r\nRepeat as necessary. Keep it hot with a little boiling water if needed. If you have a cafetiere, disassemble it, and soak the parts in the mixture for a few minutes, agitating occasionally.\r\nIn both cases, the residue just falls off with almost no scrubbing. It does great things with overused filter machine filters, too.

This info is very helpful.\r\nI tried some of these tips and my maker is shining now :lol:

you guys are wonderful!\r\ni was searching for the tips like these for a long time\r\nthanks a lot!

The longer I read this forum the more I see it is very helpful.

Can I use some of these tips to clean my grinder?

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I think you should care you grinder as it is described in your user manual.

For those who would like to take a more organic approach to keeping your coffee pot clean and fresh without having to run half a dozen cycles of water through to diminish the soapy aftertaste, use vinegar.

This completely natural substance is probably already in your kitchen and is perfectly safe to run through your machine. On top of cleaning and disinfecting the pot and water holding area, the slight acidity in vinegar will also diminish hard water mineral buildup even in the fine tubes that run around the base.

You can use a vinegar soaked rag to wipe off surface dirt and only need one or two clean water cycles to have your cup of coffee back to it's delicious original flavor.