Your coffee will taste better if you clean out your machine periodically. Here's an easy way to clean inside.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: n/a
Here's How:
- Dissolve 1 oz of citric acid in 4 cups of hot water.
- Add 4 cups of cold water to the solution
- Pour solution into the water section of your machine.
- Turn on your coffee maker (no filter) and let about half the solution run through.
- Stop the machine and let it sit for 20 minutes.
- Start it up again, and let the rest of the cleaning solution of go through.
- Rinse everything out by running 8 cups of cold fresh water through your machine, at least 4 times.
Tips:
- You can get citric acid at your grocery store, in the canning section.
- You can scale down the amount of cleaning solution for smaller coffee makers.
- Clean your coffee maker one a month.