How To Clean Your Coffee Pot

Coffee is a very damaging beverage, and by damaging I mean it stains, and it stains something awful. I try to clean my coffee pot at least once a week, really clean "Flush It" is what I call it when I really clean my coffee pot from the inside out. Due to the coffee stains themselves, and my hard water my coffee pots take really good beatings.

You will need

• bleach or vinegar (you can use chlorine free bleach not as good)
• water
• lemons

Directions

First hand wash the coffee canister, and all removable parts in warm soapy water, just like your normal wash. Then depending on your preference pick bleach or vinegar any vinegar will do. Oh or lemons!

Bleach- fill coffee canister half warm water half bleach, this will really "Flush It" inside and out. Run same bleach water through twice, and then 2 plain water flushes. Really due a good number on the rinse run through, if you still feel like you can smell bleach after 2 rinses do it again. The down side to the bleach flush it is time consuming. The upside it is really clean, and that next cup of coffee will taste like it came from a brand new coffee pot.

Vinegar- fill entire coffee canister with vinegar, run through 2 times, and 1 time with water. Only set back to the vinegar flush it smells! The upside to this method though is vinegar is all natural.

Lemons- this is another natural way to clean your coffee pot, cut a couple lemons in half and scrub the stain away. This is not the most effect at getting to the inside of the pot but does help. Squeeze a couple halves of the lemon juice into your coffee canister, removing the seeds, fill rest with hot water and "Flush It". Upside to the lemon method great aroma!