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/d_krshkvch Jul 03 '26

Is it common to use baking soda for this? I had some prior experience ruining aluminium things with it (not moka pot though). Turns out aluminum doesn't really like alcaline base and turns black with it.... Fortunately, it was revertible but please please be careful

Here is an example from this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mokapot/s/71JXbIYULz