If you’re wondering how to clean a coffee maker, sometimes it’s easier just to buy great cleaning products like these:

However if you want to do things the old fashioned way and put a bit of elbow grease into it, for a clean coffee maker, get back to basics and use only simple natural ingredients.

For this cleaning recipe, all you will need is vinegar and water.

Step 1

Get a cooking pot (any pot will do) and fill it with half vinegar and half water. If you want to make a weaker cleaning solution, try a quarter vinegar and three quarters water.

Step 2

Put your coffee maker’s filter back in, as you normally would if you were going to make a brew.

Step 3

Where you would ordinarily put water into your coffee maker, pour the vinegar & water mixture instead.

 

Step 4

Activate your coffee machine’s power (turn it on) and let the mixture go all the way through. As this is happening, you will surely feel a sense of peace and pure happiness.

 

Step 5

Throw out the filter and the mixture.

 

Step 6

Allow the coffee machine to sit idle to cool for about 20 minutes or so (or however long it takes to cool down).

 

Step 7

Put the coffee pot under running cold water to rinse it thoroughly. Don’t use detergent though as this can be (and usually is) highly toxic – just use water thoroughly. Also don’t use soap because it can cause a nasty chemical reaction with coffee residue and make cleaning even harder.

It is important that the water is cold as if you use hot water then put it in cold water suddenly,  glass can fracture.

 

Step 8

Repeat steps 2 – 8 at least twice. The only difference to the first run-through is that you aren’t using vinegar this time, just water. Keep repeating the procedure until you can’t smell vinegar or coffee and the machine generally looks and smells clean.

Here’s another way to clean your coffee maker, demonstrated by a human: