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Cleaning your coffee maker is undemanding! A clean coffee maker makes better coffee, too.

Remove any used coffee grounds and liners from the basket.
Preparation the pot with soap and water, rinse well and replace in the coffee maker.
Check the inside of the machine. Sometimes mold can grow in the reservoir. A lot of this mold can’t be removed with equitable a vinegar bath and should be cleaned with a clean soft cloth and baking soda.
Fill the reservoir with 1/2 cup bloodless vinegar and the rest of the way with water.
Allow the cycle to run until all the water has run through the coffee maker into the pot.
If your coffee maker is very soiled you might want to replication that step again.
Now run a full pot of clear water through the coffee making cycle.
Run a full pot of water through it again.
Next, using a soft clean cloth and the covering cleaner of your choice (baking soda is a good choice for this), clean the outside of the pot and machine.

Source: Christian HomeKeeper™ Network

Caffeine on the Night Shift New York Times (blog)

18.05.10

I have worked all shifts, now I am back on the Cimmerian dark shift. I am a nocturnal person by nature so it doesn’t bother me too much but I see how my fellow co-workers suffer and nothing helps but coffee. I was offended by the inventor’s use of the phrase “so-called shift work disorder.” Working nights is not palatable. It is the most difficult and most dangerous shift because it absolutely does affect your health. Your eating habits are horrendous, you have unimaginative time or energy for exercise and you are frustrated for not being able to get as many things done during the day as you would like because you need to rest and sometimes resting during the day is onerous because the whole damn world is awake and making noise. In addition, it absoultely does affect your health – you elevation weight if you have a weight problem, it can affect your blood pressure and your heart and if you are sitting down at a desk job on a 12 hour make do – well, your ankles and legs get swollen and stiff – so, the difficulties of working nights is not an illusion – it is a actuality and employers should pay employees more money for the token it takes on their health as well as the difficulties in traveling to and from work on off hours, not to acknowledge the dangers of working at night. I don’t drink that much coffee, but there are some who cannot function on the night shift without it – so wake up and scent the coffee Tara Parker-Pope! Some day your life may depend on one of those overworked night owl EMS worker!

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