Smells like burning electrical plastic.
New coffee maker smells like plastic.
If your coffee maker is stained and gives off a bad plastic odor it s important to clean the coffee maker so that the taste of your coffee is not affected by the smell.
Two you just bought a brand new coffee maker.
It s the new bunn.
Took a week to figure out where the smell was coming from.
Plastic particularly when it is new contains chemicals which become significantly more active when hot water is added.
It is unfortunate that even most expensive coffee makers are made from plastic.
Btw you are probably already familiar with phthalates.
In fact a new coffee maker tastes like plastic common phenomenon.
If you re here because of keurig plastic taste you re in the right place.
Moreover the plastics are.
Step 1 use vinegar.
With a keurig most of the internal parts are plastic and there s also the plastic k cup to consider.
If your coffee tastes like plastic there are a couple of good reasons for this.
If your coffee maker rolled off the assembly line very recently it may have more plastic odor and smell than one that.
Outgassing is what creates the new car smell when you buy a new car off the dealer lot and it seems that an awful lot of coffee drinkers have concluded that this is the cause of that coffee maker plastic taste and smell.
When you buy a new car that new car smell is the stink of phthalates off gassing from the plastics inside the vehicle.
Plastic is nowhere close to being edible or harmless to neglect in any case.
Even with older machines buildup of minerals in the water can also change the taste of the coffee and may add to that plastic taste or smell.
Coffee tastes like plastic.
So anyway i wrote a whole thing about how to remove plastic taste from coffee makers in general read it here and most of that stuff actually does apply to keurigs as well vinegar is probably the most common solution to plastic taste.
All it takes is a little vinegar.
My kitchen smells like warmed plastic within the area of the coffee maker.
That new coffeemaker smell.
Luckily if you know the trick cleaning a coffeemaker is very easy to do.
Now for the bad news these chemicals leaching out from your new coffee maker do more than just make the coffee taste foul they are also bad for your health.
I sent company message via their website to document the issue in case house burns down.
To solve this problem we have prepared a fool proof method of cleaning the coffee machine to eliminate the leaching plastics of the coffee maker.
If your keurig has stopped brewing i have some suggestions on how to fix that.