This should be a short thread but does anyone know how to clean a coffee pot with a vinegar solution? I tried to google it, like any other normal person would do, and came up short. There's always the suggestion on the coffee maker to "clean with vinegar" but how much? 1/2 vingegar 1/2 water? anyone got any suggestions cause the manual is nowhere to be found?

From my days back in the service industry. It was a little bit of Ice. A little bit of Salt. A couple wedges of lemon (squeezed, then tossed into the pot). All in the pot then slosh it around a little.

 

Should take out the bitter burned coffee taste, and remove the staining from the sides too.

If it is a glass pot from a coffee maker just scrub with Barkeeper's friend or, if you can't find that, Comet.

 

The vinegar method is good for cleaning drip coffee makers that have builtup hard water scale in them. If you do, then running 1/4 of vinegar and a pot of water through the machine in a brew cycle will dissolve the scale.

Sweet...I'll try them both out and will have some kick ass tasting coffee for work in the morning! Thanks

To add to the suggestions, if it’s just the glass pot that’s stained, you can use maybe a half cup of bleach and fill it up with water. Come back in a few minutes and your pot should be sparkling. Rinse well.

 

If it’s the electric brewing thingee you’re trying to clean, after you follow Jim’s advice, I’d follow it up with at least a couple of pots of plain water through the brew cycle. If you don't, you may find that first pot or so of coffee really does have a “kick ass” flavor. And not in a good kind of way.

 

Good luck.

To add to the suggestions, if it’s just the glass pot that’s stained, you can use maybe a half cup of bleach and fill it up with water.  Come back in a few minutes and your pot should be sparkling.  Rinse well.

 

If it’s the electric brewing thingee you’re trying to clean, after you follow Jim’s advice, I’d follow it up with at least a couple of pots of plain water through the brew cycle.  If you don't, you may find that first pot or so of coffee really does have a “kick ass” flavor.  And not in a good kind of way.

 

Good luck.

 

 

Good call on the multiple runnings of water...that could have been an unpleasant start to the morning!

what kind of a pot are you running? How is the rest of the set-up? We have a couple coffee nuts here.

what kind of a pot are you running? How is the rest of the set-up? We have a couple coffee nuts here.

I think that qualifies as a personal attack. Ban him!