Best way to clean a cafetière

[JeanneFrench]

Not the plunger, the jug.

Scoop grounds out with a spoon (into food recycling if you have it), cold-ish water and a washing up brush to clean the jug.

Dishwasher

No dishwasher

PolPotNoodle Do you have a method for getting out all of the used grounds?

@JeanneFrench I use a spoon for most of it but if it's sticking I either use a dish cloth thats destined for the wash or a paper towel. Another good item is a soft spatula to scoop it all out as that tends to clump the grounds together.

Do you have a garden or plants? Fill with cold water and use to water your plants. Apparently they like the caffeine. Repeat until cafetiere is free of coffee grounds.

As far as the old grounds go, Starbucks used to give them away/sell them (can't remember which) for compost heaps.

So, if you've a compost heap, they could go on there.

I don't know if they'd be allowed in the council bin provided for garden waste, although you'd assume that should all be compostable stuff.

Swill out the grinds with water and pour over my hostas.

Or use a moka pot and you can tip the grounds out easily in to food recycling/compost

I use a silicone spoon. Getting the grounds out is the biggest bore with a cafetière. Mine is a bit like this:

www.josephjoseph.com/collections/gadgets-utensils/products/elevate-silicone-solid-spoon?variant=31897383075912

Mine is a cheaper version from Lakeland. I use it quite a lot, not just for scraping out the cafetière.

I pour out the leftover coffee through the filter and leave the grounds in the jug to dry, even if overnight. Standing the jug in a sunny spot helps. Dry coffee grounds are then comparatively easy to remove with your fingers, to bin or compost heap or wherever. I use a Dishmatic sponge on the end of a handle filled with washing-up liquid device for washing cups, glasses and...cafetiere jugs.

We have a large flower pot in the garden. I still the grounds around with some water,then pour into the flower pot. The water leaks out through the holes, leaving the grounds behind. When the pot is full it's tipped into the compost