do you use soap to wash your coffee pot?

I wash my cup in soap and water, but i clean my pot with white vinegar and then rinse, run water through it twice before making a pot of coffee. My water is hard, even if i filter it my pot gets white scale easily.

I have never really heard this before. I guess maybe its because I'm a tea drinker. My daughter and her husband are the coffee drinker in my house. We always use soap to clean the pot out. I guess hard core coffee drinkers like the pot to keep the smell of the coffee inbedded in the pot.LOL I can't imagine not cleaning it with soap and hot water. If you just rinse it the glass will become pot become the color of coffee, right?

I don't because I'm afraid I might not get all the soap out. But every 2 or three months, I put this solution tht cleans the whole coffeemaker, including the pot.

on the pot itself i use soap but in the coffee maker i use white vinegar to get rid of all the mineral deposits that build up from the water

HI Macdingolinger!. I am not a coffee drinker because I feel dizzy every time I drink it. I am a tea girl to be a specific a green tea lover. My dad and mom who love coffee at our home and they always wash their cups with sop, we always wash cup and glasses after used it because we feel it more clean. Do you know what the reason this real coffee drinker don;t wash their cups with soap.

I wash my cup with soap every time i drink , but i try only to use glass cup.

Do they have a reason why they (the "real" coffee drinkers) do not use soap to wash their coffee pots or mugs? I am wondering why... I cannot afford to don't wash my coffee mug or pot with soap. The brown color of the residue will leave stain that are very hard to remove, they are almost permanent if you leave them unwashed with soap!