You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Tassimo machines. Thread starter iandsm Start date Mar 19, Just wondering if anyone has one of these Tassimo machines. I bought one thinking it would be good for travel and indeed it does make very good coffee and hot chocolate. However, when I just use it for hot water by re using an empty milk disc or the cleaning disc there is a slight smell of plastic to the water and resultant tea and also a slight after taste.
Just wondering if that's something that will improve the more I use it or if there is a fix. Used one for years. Tried the cleaning disc and also done the full cleaning program but not a lot of improvement..
I do notice a slight smell of plastic on the cleaning disc itself and this is the same smell I get n the water. Click to expand Would this do the job? Amazon product. Make Tea Tramp a T bag in a cup with boiling water on it so easy. Janine said:. The idea is that when on EHU you simply put the tea bag in the cup and place that under the hot water spout of the machine so you get instant hot water in the right quantity and you don' t have to mess around with boiling a kettle.
Thats more than i paid for my coffee pod machine. Have two - don't ask - and sister has one. I've not noticed a taint, nor has my sister nor her family commented. However, when I just use it for hot water. Stagman Free Member. Tea from coffee machines never taste quite right in our humble opinion, but each to their own. We will stick with yorkshire tea and a kettle any day. I get them from Fulton Foods but they are available elsewhere too Just bought 5 boxes so I've got plenty to take away on holiday with me!!!!
Somebody gave us one as a gift, and after a while something inside it broke, flooded it, and the fuse went phut. Got one for ourselves as an indulgence, and prefer the coffee and chocolate to the tea, which I find too strong. Also got one for the workplace's light refreshment counter so we can serve up Costa and Cadbury's drinks to the visitors for about half the price that Costa outlets charge and still make a profit.
Never had any problems with plastic taste in the water. I have now taken to making fresh coffee the Italian way, with a stove top moka pot. Use it on a gas ring and the results are very good. Need more convincing? Read my Chemex review!
I recently wrote about 7 of the best French press coffee makers you can buy, so maybe have a look, ok? Have you tried any of the methods discussed above? How did you fare? Other coffee drinkers in plastic taste purgatory would surely like to know! You'll get a great cup of coffee from the Cuisinart Brew Central, with one potentially serious….
I called Bun on this issue and they said epoxy on the outside of the res. Thier reply to that was wait 6 to 8 wks. They offered to send me a new coffee pot that would do the same thing. The plastic smell is no joke. Low risk, high potential reward. Return it. Or buy a new one return the old one. You should not suffer the manufacturers who dont care. I bottle of Hydrogen peroxide and wipe in side with it ever where.
Thanks Dominic! Please comment again if you try any of the methods listed here. Tried everything. Worked only by running alcoholic drinks through coffee maker like wisky, vodca, uzo etc…. Then the hot pot reused and runned again for a couple of times. Do this only with open windows and gas detectors off.
Alcohol is volatile and will smell like in a distillery. After this treatment flushing with water for a couple of times and plastic smell and taste gone forever. Very pleased! The problem is not the plastic water reservoirs. The problem is the PVC piping through which the hot water travels from the reservoir to the spray head. The only current way to avoid those tubes is to use a stovetop or electric percolator.
I used Puretronics Technical Grade Rinsed thoroughly with clean water first, then brewed the alcohol through it, twice. Oh, the alcohol smell, open a window lol… Wal-Mart has this alcohol. I have tried boiling my coffee basket in baking soda water, and running white vinegar through the system, but it still tastes like plastic.
Thanks so much!! Thank you x Read this article. Used vodka and gin. The concoction cleaned my phone well too!!! Use alcohol. Glad to hear that vodka and gin worked for you, Barb! Thanks for commenting! First off, my belief is that no one should run vinegar through a coffee maker to get rid of the smell, because it might simply mask it. I want a coffee maker to be an excellent hot-water heater first and foremost.
I plan to not rest until I can buy a coffee maker and have it make excellent hot water which I could drink, before ever running coffee or vinegar through it. I found no new solutions. Unfortunately, you are absolutely wrong about the Behmor Brazen.
Your solution to simply buy a coffee maker with glass or stainless touching the water, does not cover the contingency I discovered when I dug into the Brazen.
Persisted well over running 20 rounds of water or vinegar through it. Behmor would not cop to it, claiming they had never heard of this issue, even AFTER I sent them half a dozen links to coffee snob websites talking about the issue in detail. They use cheaply insulated high-current wires to connect the heating element, the insulation itself is the source of the stink. When current is run through them, and the wires heat up somewhat, the smell of the insulation crawls up the sides of the stainless reservoir, past the cracks between the plastic outside and the steel reservoir and then gets trapped by the cover and inundates the water in the chamber from above.
There is no escaping it. I offered to send the unit to them so they could verify my findings. I really wanted that coffee maker to work. The arrogant people at Behmor refused. I threw it out. These pots suck. You can never get the plastic taste out of these machines. Figure it out!
I read up how plastics cure with UV light, so put my nasty plastic coffee maker out in the midday sun for a few hours to soak up some rays, and TA DA! Most flagrantly, the coffee has been ground days, weeks, possibly even years before you drink it, Nuchi said. By pre-grinding coffee and packing it into neat little vacuum-sealed pods, the end user gets the ultimate easy brewing experience.
All you have to do is pop a coffee-filled pod if you're brewing with a Keurig, it's called a "K-Cup" into the machine, hit a button, and within seconds, you have a sufficiently warm cup of joe.
But the grinding process immediately exposes the beans to oxygen, triggering a chemical reaction that zaps the flavor and aroma. This reaction causes coffee's tasty, aromatic chemical compounds to degrade via oxidation — the same reaction that makes iron rusty.
While Keurig does try to thwart further degradation by vacuum sealing its grinds into pods and possibly infusing them with preservative chemicals, though Keurig declined to comment on whether or not they do this , the oxidation damage to the beans may have already been done before they're packaged. When raw coffee beans are roasted under high heat, the complex internal mixture of minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, lipids, water, and caffeine meld together inside the bean, giving way to the nutty, irresistible smell and taste of coffee.
Just like with grinding, coffee beans begin to degrade and lose their tasty flavor the moment they're roasted and then exposed to air. For this reason, many — but not necessarily all — roasters suggest that you brew your coffee soon after roasting to get the freshest, most delicious drink. But freshly-roasted coffee presents a problem for packaging: After the beans cool, they release plumes of trapped carbon dioxide CO2 gas from anywhere for a few days to several weeks.
The most rapid release occurs during the first few days after roasting, which then tapers off to a more gradual release over weeks. While coffee manufacturers want to package newly-roasted and ground beans into an air-tight container as soon as possible to seal in the freshness, the CO2 plumes present a problem. When beans or grounds are actively releasing CO2, the gas could cause the sealed container to blow up like a balloon and pop. Many coffee companies insert one-way air valves into tightly sealed bags to allow the CO2 to escape, but with an air-tight K-Cup, you can't really do this.
To thwart this issue, manufacturers will wait until the CO2 is fully released, which can require up to 15 days , before they package their roasted and ground coffee. But during the wait, as we learned above, the coffee becomes more and more stale by the day as it's exposed to air.
I asked Keurig how long they wait after roasting and grinding their beans before packaging into pods and how they account for degassing, but they declined to answer. Considering that their pods aren't bursting with CO2, it's probably safe to say that they wait days or even weeks after roasting to make sure the beans aren't actively giving off CO 2 before packaging them. To make matters worse, Nuchi said, you can't tell where the coffee was sourced from and how recently it was roasted and ground.
This makes ascertaining the quality and freshness of a given package near impossible. I asked Keurig's public relations team what kind of beans they use and where they're sourced from and, again, they declined to answer.
A spokesperson from Keurig who did not want to be named said that even Keurig employees aren't able to tell when a particular package of coffee was roasted and ground.
There's only a "best by" date on each box that, the spokesperson said, is the only way to "ensure freshness" which itself is a loose, subjective term. According to Nuchi, coffee in a pre-sealed K-cup could be sitting for months or even years before it gets to you.
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