United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. The Rise of the Cleanfluencer. What you'll need: Water Filter Refill Cartridges. Keurig amazon. White Vinegar. Descaling Solution. Descaling your coffee maker should only take a few minutes and can improve the performance of your coffee maker, as well as the taste of the coffee it makes.
To get started, you will need a large coffee mug, some distilled vinegar and filtered water. Before descaling, however, you should hand wash or wipe down any removable parts, so you will also need a damp wash cloth. It is the scale buildup in the fittings connecting to the heater unit that causes the most trouble.
These mineral buildups can also happen in the fixtures and pipes in your home, which is why many people have water softeners, to reduce the scale buildup in their pipes caused by minerals in their water. Smaller water lines and fixture openings will plug up quicker than larger pipes.
So, for your coffee maker with smaller lines and openings — left untreated, this will cause the early demise of your brewer. Which is why Keurig recommends frequent descaling. Distilled water does not have any mineral content. Minerals in water taste better and for that reason Keurig recommends bottled mineral water and water that is not softened.
Do we want minerals in our water running through our coffee brewer with better tasting coffee and then have to descale? Or do we sacrifice the taste of our coffee and reduce or eliminate scale buildup in our coffee maker?
If you want great tasting coffee, you must allow for minerals in the water and get used to descaling your coffee brewer. But before that, the most common symptom is slower water flow.
It simply takes longer for your Keurig coffee maker to brew a cup of coffee. Sometimes this is very obvious. The pump struggles and makes more noise while less brewed coffee comes out. To know for sure if it is water flow and not faulty coffee pods or other obstructions caused by the coffee filter part of the brewer, you should do the following:. If you get good water flow after doing this, then the scale buildup is probably not too bad. It still does not hurt to descale frequently even if you have good water flow.
If your Keurig brewer has poor water flow, the pump struggles, and water dribbles out — you need to descale your brewer. Hard water areas will naturally need to descale their machine more often.
If you live in an area with very hard water and you are making multiple cups per day, Cooke recommends descaling your machine once a week. Use the water poured in the tank within one week, says Lopez. Never use water that has been sitting still for more than a week as it could grow mold.
Before you store the Keurig away or go on a trip, make sure it is fully empty of water, says Shabbir Nooruddin of Coffee Brewster. Use denture tablets , says cleaning expert Abe Navas, the general manager of Emily's Maids , a house cleaning service in Dallas, Texas. I developed a technique for cleaning coffee makers some years ago.
It's easy and it will increase the lifespan of your machine for a long time," says Navas. You need a denture tablet and a microfiber cloth. Put half of a denture tablet in the K-cup chamber. This will help clean any gunk build-up. Then run the machine for three to five cycles.
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