Do you wash your coffee cup?

Lawrence

Lawrence

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In my military days I spent a few years in the Navy, and it was custom that if you owned your own coffee cup you never washed it out because that built up mass of coffee resins inside the coffee cup made the new coffee you put into it taste a little bit better. I do not wash my favorite coffee cup, do you?
 

Old Navy guy here and I always washed my coffee mug (still do). I knew a couple of Chiefs who would put on quite an irate show if someone washed their personal coffee cup but I suspected that was mostly to build a reputation as a crusty old Chief.

Sadly, a lot of sailors would grab a cup from the mess deck and fill it with Joe and then go about their business. When they finished the coffee the cup went over the side. The Piedmont would spend months anchored in Kaohsiung or Subic so I'm sure the bottom of the harbor was thick with discarded coffee mugs by the time we left.

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My coffee/tea mugs get rinsed out before being washed in the dishwasher. Since the tea doesn't cause residue like coffee, sometimes I'll put the mug in the fridge (usually there's a little tea left in it anyway) and use it a second time. I'm OCD and a germaphobe but I have no qualms about doing this, especially since I make tea in the microwave which is supposed to kill germs anyway after a minute and I heat the water for between 2 and 2.5 minutes.
 
I have one cup that I use for everything; tea, coffee, milk, Metamucil, whatever. During the day I just rinse it, but each morning I scrub it out first thing. My wife has a variety of mugs, cups, and glasses that get washed each use.

When I was in the Navy, I don't remember anyone aboard having a personal cup. We just grabbed one and returned it to the mess area. I wish I had one of those white glass cups with the blue strips.
 
The dishwasher washes my coffee cups. I use a fresh clean cup for coffee every morning. :coffee: A fresh clean glass for water that I use throughout the day. 🥛 A fresh clean cup for herbal tea in the evening. 🍵
 
Bella said:
The dishwasher washes my coffee cups. I use a fresh clean cup for coffee every morning. :coffee: A fresh clean glass for water that I use throughout the day. 🥛 A fresh clean cup for herbal tea in the evening. 🍵
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As fresh as.........Bella :giggle:
 
We use stainless steel to-go cups. Start with a mug in the morning, rinse for the 1/2 cup after lunch. It’s washed with soap and water at night. After a while it gets stained inside so I scrub it with baking soda and rinse with vinegar water. Do the coffee pot at the same time.
 
If any of you lovely people invite me for a cup of tea, then the tea must be made in a teapot and left to brew for 7.25 minutes, then poured into a clean cup. I will put the milk and sweetner in myself. If this is too much bother, then I'll just have to pay the lovely lady across the street another visit.....she makes a perfect cuppa. 😊
 
I have a glass cup that I use for coffee. Wash by hand, and rinse with tap water followed by rinsing with RO water. Rarely use the dishwasher because all my washed dishes need to be rinsed with RO water as the final rinse (from my lab days when we used to clean lab ware with RO water - if RO water was good for the cells, it's good enough for me).

Did a test once, where the lab dishes needed to be clean for the experiment. Rinsed 5 times with regular water and 2 times with RO Water, and they were clean enough (no suds, residue) to grow the cells in without contamination. That's my standard.
 
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