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If you're one nasty crabapple before you have your morning cup of coffee,
this will be of interest to you.
Many of us use Keurig coffee makers to make our morning cup of coffee.
But there are other kinds, like Tassimo.
Regardless of what kind you use, it's important to clean it because
they get used day after day, and we need them to last us a long time
and keep our beverages tasting great. It may seem daunting at first.
I know there are a ton of little parts in here.
But once you know what you're doing, it's an easy process.
Some of these parts are even dishwasher safe, which makes our job even easier.
To begin you'll need white vinegar, all-purpose cleaner, dish washing liquid,
a cleaning toothbrush and a microfiber cloth.
We're going to start by taking some parts apart.
We'll take apart the lid and the reservoir.
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Then we'll remove the K-Cup holder and the funnel.
Now this takes some work. And make sure you're careful
because it does have a sharp needle. These two pieces come apart,
the K-Cup holder and the funnel. If you really would like to do it,
it takes some gentle finagling. I don't think it's that important.
So I'm not going to do it. Finally, we'll take the drip tray
and the drip tray cover and move those out of the way.
To make things a little easier for you, Keurig actually puts
some instructions right there on the lid.
It says, "To clean lid wipe with damp cloth."
That's pretty easy. And that the reservoir
is dishwasher safe. So that's exactly what we'll do.
So this goes into the dishwasher. So does this and this and this.
And that makes for a pretty easy cleanup. If you don't have a dishwasher,
you can fill your sink with hot water and add about a teaspoon of dish liquid.
Soak those items for about 10 or 15 minutes.
Rinse them and towel dry. Now we're going to clean
the rest of the machine just using a microfiber cloth, a cleaning toothbrush
and some all-purpose cleaner. For starters, open up your coffee maker,
grab your cleaning toothbrush and just brush out any of the coffee grinds
that you see. And now the easy part.
Grab your microfiber cloth and your all-purpose cleaner.
We're just going to give this the good old once over,
starting at the top, working our way to the bottom and focusing
on any of those tough areas. You might notice that there are
some crusty, white bits around the area where the reservoir sits.
If that's the case, take a cloth, soak it in some white vinegar
and just wipe around the perimeter of that edge.
You'll notice that that white buildup starts to disappear.
Now that everything came out of the dishwasher, we're going to put
the Keurig back together, and then we're going to run a descaling brew.
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What you'll do is take your white vinegar.
You'll fill up your reservoir about halfway, and then you're going to
start running through a brew cycle with nothing in the Keurig.
So basically, you're just making hot cups of vinegar.
Every time it comes out, dump it out.
Run another cycle until you've run out of vinegar entirely.
Once you've done that, refill the reservoir with water and run through
some more additional brews until you've completely exhausted all of the water.
What that will do is rinse out any of that gross vinegar taste.
Then you can start making yourself some great cups of coffee again.
Here's three more things you should know.
If you're going away for more than a week or you won't be using your
Keurig for more than a week, make sure you dump out the reservoir.
If you don't, you'll see all those mineral deposits
because the water will have evaporated.
If you brew something sticky, like hot chocolate or iced tea,
when you finish making the drink, run through a cleansing cycle.
All that is, is water in the reservoir, a cup to catch everything
and absolutely no K-Cup in the K-Cup holder.
You're just cleaning out that container. If you don't, the sugar from the K-Cup
will crystallize and therefore clog your system.
Nobody likes a clogged system. Now if you're really into following
directions, use distilled water instead of tap water.
The reason that's recommended is because distilled water doesn't have
any of the minerals that your regular tap water does, like calcium.
That leads to limescale buildup. So you'll have to do that
vinegar brew more often.
Well, that's it, the simple, easy way to keep your Keurig
or any other coffee maker that you have nice and clean.
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