Descaling is one of those necessary evils of owning an automatic coffee maker. They lure you in with the promise of sipping that sweet, sweet java brew that you so desperately need, but what they don't advertise is that you'll have to perform a wacky chemistry experiment every few months to ensure your machine can pump out your daily dose of caffeine.
Most pod-based coffee machines give you a warning to get more liquid energy out before running them through with hot water and chemicals. A Keurig allows you weeks with the descaling notice, unlike a Nespresso which will only let a finite amount of coffee through before refusing to function.
Descaling is the process of running water and chemicals through the machine to remove the crud that builds up from your local water source. It’s fairly simple yet tedious, requiring the mixture to be run through the machine followed by rinses.
I tell myself I can descale my coffee machine, but I put it off and wait until it's too late. Thankfully I live with a responsible person who takes pity on me. Last week she solved the problem so I could continue pounding espresso.
Collection
[
|
...
]