How to Clean Your Coffee Maker the All-Natural Way

Clean tastes better, and we have the steps to prove it.

Learn how distilled white vinegar is the inexpensive secret to perkier-tasting coffee.

If your brew is a little blah, perhaps yourcoffee makeris due for a cleaning.

A good deep-cleaning of your drip orsingle-serve coffee maker, like a Keurig, is the solution.

You probably already have theultimate all-natural cleanerin your pantry: distilled white vinegar.

So let’s get cleaning!

(Most thermal carafes require handwashing.)

Every two months:Descale your Keurig every other month, or whenever the descale light goes on.

Step 2: Brew

With the basket and filter chamber empty, activate the switch to brew.

Rinse well to prevent soapy-tasting coffee.

Do this every other month, or whenever the descale light tells you to.

Before starting, ensure the water chamber is completely empty.