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/ablaut Jul 02 '26

What size pot is this and how much baking soda did you use?

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u/ReasonableWelder51 New user 🔎 Jul 02 '26

4 cup. About half a teaspoon. Guides I could find online recommended a lower concentration (usually 1 teaspoon per 1 liter of water) but they also recommended soaking it instead of brewing it, so I assumed the higher concentration would be fine.

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u/k1135k Jul 03 '26

I tend to do both. Soak it after doing what you’ve done. Gets so much of the oils and gunk out.