Keeping Coffeemakers Clean is Key to Longevity

Do you go through coffeemakers almost yearly? Do you look for and buy expensive machines in hopes that they will brew longer than the last before breaking down, but do not? Maybe you should prolong the life of your coffee machine by starting maintenance schedule.

A maintenance schedule may sound complicated, but it's as simple as cleaning the pot, tank, and inner tubing. The amount of cleaning depends on the frequency of use. If you make more than one pot of coffee a day, your cleaning should be more frequent than somebody who makes one pot every few days, or so.

A schedule that could fit most 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 also 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 any kind of maintenance schedule, you will find your machine outlasting all of the other machines you've 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 more than an expensive model without a maintenance schedule would.

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