HowTo Clean Your Coffee Carafe!

I noticed that most people are saying bleach, and thats true, however, I'm actually allergic to bleach (among other things). I've always used vinager. I use it for most of my cleaning. Its going to smell like a hot pickle when you run it through the coffee maker but it'll do the same as the bleach. I run it through just like if I were to make coffee about once a week and I never have any problems with it.

i used to work at a breakfast/brunch/lunch restaurant called Carleens, well we mae alot of coffee, and sometimes the dish washers were really busy with other dishes, so what we did was go to another sink, run the hot water, get some dish soap, usually dawn and a scrubber. the scrubber looked like a question mark with a handle, took off the stains pretty well. at the end of the day, wewould take all the coffee makers, and put really got water and soap in them, scrub them out, and give them to the dish washers. they were glass. it worker really well.

I do not have one of those, not yet at least, I get my coffee from Starbucks at the moment.

Mine is clean. I use vinegar. And it works well. That along with hot water does the trick.

no, i don't don't have one. anytime i have something stained like that i just pour some bleach in ti , let it sit awhile & then wash it good.

Hi Chevee, Thanks for the tips I shall do that to my coffee mugs, they are a disgrace lol! I do wah them in hot water with detergents but its still brown inside. Thanks. Hugs. Tamara

I love using my carafe, it saves so much time reheating my coffee or tea! I thoroughly clean mine once a week, the rest of the week I just rinse it under real hot water. When I do a thorough clean, I take a little squirt of Cascade automatic dishwasher detergent, and fill the rest of the way with real hot water. I let it sit awhile, then use a baby bottle brush to make sure where the glass meets the plastic shell gets clean. For any stains on the outside that won't come off, I use one of those Mr Clean magic erasers. My carafe is at least 10 - 15 years old and still looks spankin' new. I use that magic eraser on my coffee mugs too, works good and is gentle on the finish. (I would never use bleach because I've read that the bleach leaches into the plastic.)

In the restaurants we would use water,lemon wedges, salt, and crushed ice. Swirl that around and the acid cuts the grungy coffee oils. The salt polishes the inside of the pot. It rinses out really well. Use it on tea pitcher and the coffee pots themselves. Another easy trick is to dissolve a denture tablet in the container,let it set over night, and rinse. Also sparkling clean.

I think my husband just washes it in warm soapy water. Another quick fix is to fill with cold water and drop a denture tablet in.

This is very good information. Cheers!!

I use dishwashing liquid for my carafe...but I'll take note of your solution just in case I encounter some stubborn stain. Thanks so much for this info... Happy mylottin!

I am the bleach queen, I use it to clean everything including the coffee carafe. Actually I am just lazy and it is so easy, just fill it almost all the way up with water and add some bleach, let it sit and rinse well. I do the same thing with coffee cups, soup bowls, and even put some in the toilets everyday.