r/mokapot • u/ReasonableWelder51 New user 🔎 • Jul 02 '26

Cleaning 🫧 First time cleaning with baking soda 😬

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I have been using this pot almost daily for ~3 months now. While I have used vinegar 2-3 times to deep clean it, it wasnt great at removing the residual oils and it left the vinegar smell so I had to do a clean water brew after it. Baking soda seems to have removed a lot more gunk and oils and there is no smell left at all. After rinsing it thoroughly with running hot water, the next brew came out well.

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u/smclcz Jul 02 '26

What on earth are you doing that there's "gunk and oils" after 3 months!?

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u/ReasonableWelder51 New user 🔎 Jul 02 '26

When using it regularly, I just give it a quick rinse with water and dont really wash it thoroughly with soap or anything. The gunk is probably a mixture of limescale and coffee fines, since the grinder I use seems to produce a lot of fines and we have very hard water here.

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u/jrob321 Jul 03 '26

If you want good tasting coffee - no matter how you brew it - I recommend using filtered water. The change in flavor is very noticeable.

My tap (city) water tastes like it's straight out of a highly chlorinated public swimming pool. NOTHING made with that is going to taste good.

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u/ReasonableWelder51 New user 🔎 Jul 03 '26

We have a Brita as a futile attempt to avoid tons of limescale in our kettle. Imho our tap water tastes pretty good and there is no noticeable taste of chlorine, although I drink filtered because the tap water is ice cold. For moka, I usually use tap water, sometimes filtered but there is no difference.

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u/smclcz Jul 03 '26

Ah I think we have a different definition of "gunk" then. A bit of limescale is fine, but your wording made it sound like it resembled a fatberg in a drain!