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Keep Your Coffee Equipment Clean

by Ryan Jacobs

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Drinking your coffee at home is a wonderful experience. It is nice to brew a great cup of coffee for yourself in the morning or to serve your guests after dinner. In order for you to continue to make great coffee, you need to make sure that your equipment is clean.

The Mess

Here you see some examples of equipment that aren't as clean as they need to be. Okay, you caught me. The glassware on the left is downright filthy. The glassware on the right demonstrates how clean the glassware could and should be. Since not all equipment can be cleaned in the same way, I will discuss each separately.

Some dirty glassware After the magic act of cleaning

The Toolkit

To keep coffee equipment clean, you will need to have some basic equipment which is listed below:

Baking Soda: This is great for cleaning plastic or glass. It is especially useful on plastic because regular soap is very hard to rinse from plastic.
Dish washing Detergent: This should be used to clean glass or ceramic only. It will leave a film on some plastics that will be hard to get rid of.
Vinegar: This is used to remove mineral deposits from your Automatic Drip coffee pot.
Puro Caff: This is like baking soda on steroids and is useful for cleaning your espresso machine.

An all purpose cleanser Baking Soda on Steroids