Coffee pot I just bought a cheap $10 Durabrand 12 cup coffee pot. When I used the coffee pot the first time, my coffee tasted funny, alomst like a chemical or plastic. I ran several pots of plain water through the pot, tried again, same taste. I then put vinegar through the pot, followed by several pots of water. The taste and smell is still there. Any suggestions? I've bought several coffee pots over my life time and never ran into this before. Even if you can put me in touch with the manufacturer that would be helpful. Thank you! Mikki

You will find different brand and budget of coffee brewer for home or commercial use. Many brands like Keurig, Cuisinart, Mr coffee, etc. brought many cool brewers is a cheap price. They have a full collection of home, office and hotel service single k cup coffee makers.

Hi,
Use approx. 1/2 cup of coffee to 10 cups of coffee....so for a full pot use 1-1/2 cups... then adjust to taste..

heatman101

Hello. Start with 1 Tablespoon per cup and give it a taste test. If thats too much use less next time. If thats not enough use more next time. Soon you'll have it just right.
builderdale

Unless the brew level comes up short while brewing.

Vinegar/water cleaning is a good idea, but it won't necessarilly solve funny-tasting coffee. First, replace your charcoal water filter - you can get the Cuisinart brand-name replacements at Lowe's, Bed/Bath/Beyond, or Williams-Sonoma in most areas.

To do the vinegar/water cleaning, just pour 1/3 caraffe distilled white vinegar and 2/3 caraffe water into the water reservoir and brew it like it was regular coffee - I would simply bypass the self-clean function if your Cuisinart has one. Repeat up to 3 times, using a fresh batch of vinegar each time.
(if you have the caraffe-less DCC-2000, then just pour in 4 cups vinegar and 6 cups water).

Then run a full cycle of water. Then run a combo of 12 tsp lemon juice and 12 cups water (or 10 tsp and 10 cups water) to improve the taste.

On your next batch of coffee, use bottled water just to rule out any possibility that your local water supply may be contributing to funny-tasting coffee.

Now your coffee should be tasting fine again.

-Tha Mp3 Doctor

normally when that hapen is the coffee is grinded to fine water has trouble filtering thrue it try corser one and coffee filter pierre

Try running a 1/3 white vinigar -2/3 water mix into the brewer, let it brew, then run several pots of clear water through it. This should clean up any bad taste.

TAKE IT BACK

We have had our DCC-1200 for 3 months. The plastic taste occurs about every 3rd pot, and it does NOT get better. We've wasted over a pound of coffee. Cuisinart says we are the only people in the world with the problem. Well, I guess not...

I had same problem after 4 months. very slow brew time, 10 cups of water poured in made about 6 cups of coffee. I used a packaged coffee pot cleaner powder and this fixed the problem (for now).