We have a coffee machine with a drip/overflow tray. The water and syrup,milk ect always formed a biological scum, slimy ick. A few months ago I tried adding a couple spoonfuls of liquid bleach to the cleaned and empty tray. Seems to work great at stopping the scum. Thought I'd pass it along.
I'm not a coffee drinker, but have been told a little vinegar does wonders for cleaning the machines.
Vinegar does clean if run through a couple cycles in the ole Mr. Coffee but being a past barista the problem screwloose is having is the slop that may accumulate in the drip pan....so other than every other preparation cleaning the tray the bleach may put the brakes on the bacteria buildup....
<<unfamiliar with drip pan. Our secretary usually runs vinegar about once a month in our commercial unit at work. Unsure if she does anything with the drip pan? I saw some pretty nasty pictures of some mold in a Kureg machine recently, apparently in an area not normally cleaned or looked at. Nasty enough for me to know I don't want anything out of one of those machines unless it's pert-near-new.
This is the tray you set the cup on not anything connected to what you would drink. Things on most of the day....We drink a lot of coffee. Wife buy's beans in a burlap sack from ? I'm lucky if it has beans and water when it's my turn.
I think your on a roll today... .... it must be a good Monday for you.... or did you have some good coffee today?
We all know what I was talking about and if I learned how to use this thing who would you be pokin' in the ribs all the time?
Sweet I am in the conversation and haven't read the first post or title. Lol. I will try and catch up.
Ohhh water scum. Sitting water is bad. A little prevention will save a lot of headaches. Always use good clean purified water. (Helps the taste as well) Never store the machine with water in it for any extended times. Like weekends in the office. Clean regularly. Vinegar is most available and cheapest. A cycle or two wvery 2 weeks. If bacteria has already set in bad it almost soaks into plastics. A new machine at that point starts looking like a good option.
It's the drip pan I put it in. It's on a Delonghi magnifica. When the light comes on it stops so they just dump the grounds and sometimes the drip pan.
