"leave it" has clearly been winning for some weeks now. I imagine that pot has been looked at by somebody considering making coffee at least two dozen times over those weeks, giving "leave it" a score of 24 to 0 over clean it.
I didn't make coffee for a week, but forgot to clean the pot, and the next week it looked about like that.
At least I know it's not just my house where this happens.
Do your jack-o-lanterns also melt into mush three days after Halloween? That seems to be a pretty unique phenomenon.
And this post is totally reminding me of my unintentional science experiments I conducted in high school. If you enjoy looking at that pot of coffee, try leaving a half bottle of Snapple out for a week.
But isn't it nice to be reminded that coffee has some nutritive value (at least for a few select organisms), and is not merely black, bitter muck to make your heart palpitate and your eyes stay open?
It kind of reminds me of Cienna's coffee cup pic before we shamed her into cleaning it. Only her cup was just the stained dregs of coffee, not the actively growing fungii that would occur if she abandoned her cup half full. I hope they have a Starbucks nearby. That pot is a biohazard.
Do what I did: get an Aerobie single-cup coffee press, and make your own. Your coffee will suddenly be ten times better, and you'll never have to touch the office one again. If anybody asks to borrow it, tase them.
Penicillin! Hopefully no one in the office is allergic.
That looks like a pot that I found way in the back of my refrigerator. I gagged, put the lid back on it, and threw it away. There's no coming back from that.
Life! Oh glorious life! After the war crime of cleansing that occurred with Cienna's mug it warms my heart to see that the good organisms of planet C-MUG had obviously started a colony here and have flourished beyond my wildest dreams!!!
Er, they also might be preparing a counterstrike against the whole office. Consider your selves warned. (kind of a Battlestar Galactica scenario...).
I recommend dumping the contents into the toilet, rinsing it out, then disinfecting it with vinegar. And run some vinegar through the machine to clean it out and disinfect the filter.
You should skim the mold off the top, reheat the liquid underneath, and give it to Dan next time he's sleepy. And then get fired, i guess, because he is the boss, so maybe don't actually use my plan.
Omg... is that a real picture from The Stranger office? How can you people live like that? I would have been horrified at just seeing a single cluster. Just throw the whole thing away; wear something over your nose and mouth while you do it.
After dumping the coffee, and the coffee grinds, first soak the filter and carafe in a hot sink with Oxyclean. Rinse well and let dry. Then soak in a sink of 1/4 c bleach to 1 gallon hot water. Rinse well and let dry. Next, run pure white vinegar through the machine twice. Finally, run water through the machine until you can no longer smell vinegar.
Let all the work that it took be a reminder that a few seconds to empty and rinse is always worth it.
Throw the pot away? You guys are a bunch of wussies. It's mold. Wrecks your food, smells and tastes gross, but generally harmless. Their spores are floating around everywhere.
Get rid of the coffee and chunkies, then soak the pot in hot water, bleach, and a bit of soap for a half an hour. Everything's dead, and all you need to do is rinse it out and give it a regular soap or dishwasher wash.
@46: If there's mould in the pot, there's mould in the filter. That mould might have entered other areas as well. Better to run it with vinegar at least once to be safer.
@46, yes, mold spores are floating around everywhere!
Just clean it - no special soaking, bleach or vinegar required. You think mold doesn't wash off glass with a soap and sponge or cloth? It sure does. Fungal hyphae can't penetrate glass and they don't eat plastic (yet).
Now if this were a wooden coffee pot, that could be a different story.
So many people here who would throw it away... unless you're so rich that you discard your possessions when they get dirty, get educated for crissakes. And if you do throw this stuff away, at least put it out on the sidewalk so folks like me can spiff it up and be happy.
Come to think of it, I did something very similar with a cast iron pot. I just could not for the life of me keep that thing from rusting; finally gave up and put it out, where a neighbor more skilled than I in these matters gleefully scooped it up as a prized possession.
Keep the dirty coffee equipment stories coming, slog! A reader favorite.
They might as well throw it away. Clearly there aren't enough coffee drinkers there to finish a pot and/or toss out yesterday's pot and make a fresh one.
If I were one of few radicals there who drinks coffee, I'd just make my own with a french press or something.
I have never seen anything that gross in an office and I work with engineers.
No wonder you folks drink so much, it's to kill the bacteria.
"leave it" has clearly been winning for some weeks now. I imagine that pot has been looked at by somebody considering making coffee at least two dozen times over those weeks, giving "leave it" a score of 24 to 0 over clean it.
At least I know it's not just my house where this happens.
Do your jack-o-lanterns also melt into mush three days after Halloween? That seems to be a pretty unique phenomenon.
- That's cuz we shit in it!
It's not just your house.
You had to leave jack o' lanterns out 'til mid-November to get the caved-in look in Northern California where I grew up.
In the Pacific NW, I'd wager that it takes maybe a week, although I never let it go that long.
I feel so much better about the state of my office's kitchen now...
That looks like a pot that I found way in the back of my refrigerator. I gagged, put the lid back on it, and threw it away. There's no coming back from that.
Signed, A Mom
Assuming you plan to throw it out.
Er, they also might be preparing a counterstrike against the whole office. Consider your selves warned. (kind of a Battlestar Galactica scenario...).
You should skim the mold off the top, reheat the liquid underneath, and give it to Dan next time he's sleepy. And then get fired, i guess, because he is the boss, so maybe don't actually use my plan.
Seriously, how lazy are you guys? Rinse it out, scrub it out good with some soap and hot water, wow, maybe 3-5 minutes of your time.
Let all the work that it took be a reminder that a few seconds to empty and rinse is always worth it.
Get rid of the coffee and chunkies, then soak the pot in hot water, bleach, and a bit of soap for a half an hour. Everything's dead, and all you need to do is rinse it out and give it a regular soap or dishwasher wash.
Just clean it - no special soaking, bleach or vinegar required. You think mold doesn't wash off glass with a soap and sponge or cloth? It sure does. Fungal hyphae can't penetrate glass and they don't eat plastic (yet).
Now if this were a wooden coffee pot, that could be a different story.
So many people here who would throw it away... unless you're so rich that you discard your possessions when they get dirty, get educated for crissakes. And if you do throw this stuff away, at least put it out on the sidewalk so folks like me can spiff it up and be happy.
Come to think of it, I did something very similar with a cast iron pot. I just could not for the life of me keep that thing from rusting; finally gave up and put it out, where a neighbor more skilled than I in these matters gleefully scooped it up as a prized possession.
Keep the dirty coffee equipment stories coming, slog! A reader favorite.
If I were one of few radicals there who drinks coffee, I'd just make my own with a french press or something.