Why Worry About a Clean Coffee Maker?
Experts all agree that the first step in making a perfect cup of coffee is to start with clean equipment. If you’ve ever worked in an office that made pot after pot of bitter caffeinated swill, you know just how bad coffee can be. That horrible taste in the office coffee maker is the result of oil deposits left behind from the coffee beans. You didn’t know coffee contained oil? It does, and and if that left-behind oil isn’t removed, it will leave your coffee tasting foul. Mineral deposits also build up over time, and while you won’t always taste the result in the maker itself (that dratted oil covers up the taste), you’ll taste it from the deposits left in your actual coffee carafe. The glass pot itself tends to be rinsed out from time to time, if not daily, so oils are less of a problem, but the mineral deposits from your tap water will still build up over time, even with rinsing. A good, regular cleaning is essential to stripping out the minerals –and their resulting yucky taste– f
