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Keeping Your Coffee Brewer Clean

Have you gone through a coffee brewer almost yearly? Do you look for, and buy expensive machines in hopes that they will last longer than the last, but do not? Maybe you need to prolong the life of your coffee maker is a maintenance schedule.

Make your brewer last longer with proper maintenance

A maintenance schedule may sound complicated, but it is only cleaning the pot, tank, and inner tubing. The frequency of the maintenance depends on the frequency of use. If you make more than one pot of coffee a day, you need a more frequent, cleaning than somebody who makes one pot every few days, or so.

A good schedule for everyone would consist of: daily maintenance, where you would rinse the basket and pot between each use; and an end of the day cleaning, where you would scrub and rinse brew basket, funnel, and pot.

In addition to the daily cleaning, there would be a weekly cleaning. This would consist of rinsing the equipment thoroughly with cold water, checking sprayhead for any clogging, thoroughly cleaning the brew basket, and (if your machine has one) cleaning out the grinder.

If you follow some kind of maintenance schedule, you are likely to find your machine outlasting all of the other machines you have had in the past. Even if the machine is an inexpensive model, with minimum maintenance, it is likely to last longer and continue to make great tasting coffee than an expensive model without a maintenance schedule.

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Creme de la Creme

Looking for the very best when it comes to espresso machines? Then check out the Capresso C1500 in our coffee maker reviews & ratings site!

Capresso C1500
This espresso machine/coffee center is lauded by most users and reviewers alike - and I should hope so with a price tag that usually runs around $600. If you have a passion for coffee, though, this might be just the machine you need, and would probably even work well in a small coffee house.