How to Clean to get rid of old coffee smell: Any ideas on how to clean this thing?
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Clean everything first with soap & water. Fill the mug 1/2 full with white vinegar & carefully add a few teaspoons of baking soda (depending on the size of your mug). "Carefully" because it will react/expand & pour out all over if done too quickly. Add water until full. A better way to do it, if possible, is I separate my mug from the lid & put them both inside my French Press when cleaning it. Everything stainless steel comes out looking almost brand new, & all the seals etc are clean as well.
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my father just adds a little water to the mug with the soap in it and works it there. then after, just rinses it off. hope that helps.
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by some generic denture cleaning tabs (the fizzing kind).. fill it about 3/4 of the way up and throw in about 6 tabs and let it sit overnight... then just rinse.. gets off even thick coffee residue..
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About once a week I take the basket that holds the beans off and remove any beans in the hole where the blades are. Then I put in a filter (leave the top part of the filter off) and open the little door at the front of the unit. Using the brush that came with the coffee pot, I sweep all the built up grinds into the filter. If you make a lot of coffee each day, you may need to clean it more often.
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Simple. Just take it apart by pulling the handle out and wash all the parts with soap and water. To take it apart, pull the handle out (it swings away from the coffee maker, and stays attached at the top). Once the handle has been pulled out, the top will come off very easily. After the top is off, the coffee basket will come out of the bottom. Just wash everything after it's all in pieces. Some people just rinse it off. I guess I'm too OCD for that. Hope you get one. Nothing like it for making good coffee.
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I think using coffee soap would help, but I don't believe it would fully get rid of the smoke odor.
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If you just got it, did you run a cycle of just water through before brewing coffee? It not, out if you've had it for a while, I'd get some coffee Brewer cleaner (usually sold near the filters in the store) and follow the instructions on that product to clean it out.
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Rice helps! You can also put some lemon juice and salt and swish it around. It will remove any stains and clean the bottom. You'll still have to use soap and water to remove the lemon flavor. It also works on your coffee pot, too :)
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I am in the same boat as you Colleen. I got the Melita filters that LuLu recommended, but haven't had the chance to use them yet. I am thinking of using the Melita filters with my reusable K-Cup and see if that will be easier to clean up. Did you know that the bottom portion of the loose coffee drawer from the Bunn MCU does snap out for easier clean up, and just snaps back in place when clean?
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Hi- I love this tumbler, and I hate when it gets that coffee smell in it! Nothing else tastes good when it smells like coffee. The only way to get the coffee taste out of it completely is to take the top apart into its four parts. The underside of the lid has a twist-off "button" that separates it into the button, a disc that's maybe 2 inches across, the lid, and a rubber ring. Soaking these pieces separately in dish soap, and/or scrubbing them with baking soda occasionally will rid them of that coffee smell. Hope this helps.
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I bought it for a gift for some one and to be perfectly honest with I don't even like coffee. If I had to guess I would say you need to clean it out with some vinegar. However before I did that I would look on thier web site and see if they could give you some help or contact the company directly for some more anwers. I hope this helps you out...steve
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Depending on how long you've had it, how long in between usages, what kind of 'milk' or milk product such as Silk has been used, it's possible it just needs some special cleaning. I had to run a weak solution of vinegar through the coffee maker part of mine as well as taking the steamer nozzle apart and soak it in a weak solution of vinegar, then used filtered water to run some steam back through the nozzle to rinse it well. Hope that's useful.
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I have had this coffeemaker for a year now. I regularly wash the removable basket that holds the filter. I occasionally run a vinegar wash through the whole machine, as recommended. I have not washed the hinged non-detachable part of the swinging basket. I believe it could be wiped down with a wet paper towel or clean cloth, though. I don't see the need unless your coffee has become consistently bitter. What I do is remove the used, wet filter and basket almost immediately after brewing, and leave the whole swinging part (as well as the lid where water is poured in) open to air out. Hope this helps. I have had this coffeemaker for a year now. I regularly wash the removable basket that holds the filter. I occasionally run a vinegar wash through the whole machine, as recommended. I have not washed the hinged non-detachable part of the swinging basket. I believe it could be wiped down with a wet paper towel or clean cloth, though. I don't see the need unless your coffee has become consistently bitter. What I do is remove the used, wet filter and basket almost immediately after brewing, and leave the whole swinging part (as well as the lid where water is poured in) open to air out. Hope... » Read More I have had this coffeemaker for a year now. I regularly wash the removable basket that holds the filter. I occasionally run a vinegar wash through the whole machine, as recommended. I have not washed the hinged non-detachable part of the swinging basket. I believe it could be wiped down with a wet paper towel or clean cloth, though. I don't see the need unless your coffee has become consistently bitter. What I do is remove the used, wet filter and basket almost immediately after brewing, and leave the whole swinging part (as well as the lid where water is poured in) open to air out. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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Make sure you fill water below the spout opening. You could also try cleaning it with 1/4 cup vinegar and fill with water just below opening and run full cycle. Then empty and make fresh pot of coffee.
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Think the instructions say something about cleaning it but if not I'd mix a little bleach and water swish it around should help with the smell
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I just use hot water and a touch of dish soap. Then put the cap back on and give it a vigorous shake and dump. Then keep refilling halfway with hot water and capping/ dumping until the water empties clean. No problems with that. Just make sure to clean it after your done with the coffee so you don't go to fill it up the next day and find a surprise in there. ;)
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Get some Caffezia and let the filter and column soak for a couple of hours. You can't see inside but everything will be clean & shiny.