Keurig cleaning

[Finster]

Keurig owners. What's your cleaning routine?
my keurig gets used for about 10 cups a week. Mostly coffee, but sometimes powdered cappuccino or hot chocolate.
Every few months, or when I think hmmm, haven't cleaned this in awhile, I give it a cleaning. Yesterday was that day.
My go to cleaning is to brew a couple cups of white vinegar ( I seem to remember this being how mom used to clean the Mr Coffee), followed by a couple cups of plain water, and finally a cup of joe that just gets dumped.
don't know if it actually accomplishes anything other than making me think it's clean, but who knows 🤷‍♂️
what tricks do you all have, and do you think it really makes a difference?

edit to add that mine is a single cup model, so water doesn't sit in it. I add water for each cup brewed...

[rlozinak]

Those things need cleaning...

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

We use the descaling solution, I also rub a sewing needle around the water injection thingy and usually get a coffee ground or two out. It's been a while since my new fridge has a built in Keurig and I only have the wash the pod thingy it has.

[rlozinak]

Never heard of a Frig having a keurig

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

rlozinak this is the one we have, only thing I don't like is when you pop the pods sometimes a drip of coffee comes out. But I just wipe it up and whatever. I've gone through a few hundred pods since we bought the fridge and it's been an absolute champ. https://www.appliancesconnection.com...fe28pynfs.html

[texastweeter]

Descale when it tells me to, change the filter when it tells me to, use a wash pod once a week.

[WillTravelForFood]

We like the vinegar process you outlined. Worked for our Iced Tea maker and random metal drinking bottles.

[Dan Deter]

Either vinegar or descaling solution, usually vinegar. That almost always winds up clogging the the injection needle, so I keep a straightened paper clip to clear that out if/when it needs it. Don't do it nearly as often as I should...

[MarkN]

I tried a few methods I found on Youtube and this one works best for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4e4OqbpqTE

Using this, the Descale stops flashing.

[mgaretz]

Skip the vinegar and grab some citric acid crystals. Like these: https://amzn.to/3zlHBo9

Dissolve a tablespoon in quart of water and you have a great, much cheaper, descaling solution with no vinegar smell or taste (plus it works a lot better). A bonus is you can also use it for sweet and sour recipes instead of vinegar. A lot of Jewish/Polish/Eastern Europe recipes will use this for the sour (it's also known as sour salts, but costs a lot more if you buy it that way). It's also what provides the sour in sour patch candies.