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my husband is a specialist on mold and environmental testing. He says you should be fine to use the vinegar and run it with just hot water.

I run a 50/50 solution of vinegar and water through my machine twice (then run 2 cycles of just water) every month or so.

I second what people have said above. Just run a few cycles with hot water and vinegar. No need to throw out a working coffee maker!

Get a big bucket or fill the sink with a mild bleach solution (1 glug of bleach to a sink of water should be fine) and just let the coffeemaker soak in it overnight. In the morning, rinse it off, run it through the dishwasher, and then run vinegar water through the machine itself a few times. We get mold in our commuter mugs and stuff and I always soak them overnight in bleach water and then scrub them clean to disinfect them. Works fine.

If it was a cheapie I would throw it out. When we moved I found two bugs in ours. I ran vinegar and hot water through it but when I made coffee I couldn't get the image of my coffee being filtered through dead bug bodies out of my head *shudder*

I love coffee too much for it to be tainted.

This is like a weekly occurrence at our house! My husband is the only one who drinks coffee so it happens after he drinks it on the weekends. I agree with other posters who say vinegar.

That's happened to me! I clean it

@mrs. lion, that's why i don't drink coffee from work. The pots never get clean and once there was a roach found in one. Now i won't touch it to save my life.