What is the reason you fill a coffee maker with cold tap water, never with hot? Please help me out here...?!
I was brought up always filling a water cooker or coffee maker with cold rather than hot tap water, and that there was a good reason. I was hard pressed to produce that reason recently, other than I think it has to do with damaging the appliance - but is that due to calk or throwing off the regulator? Or is this all just something Mother always did? Most people I know take this rule for granted...until now.
Answers:
With hot tap water it can loosen sediments inside your your pipes which then comes out the faucet and eventually into your coffee.
Hi..Hot water sits in the water heater for hours and picks up some nasty flavor. Water sits in the cold water pipes in your house/apartment also, so cold water should be run for a while until you feel it get cold. Some refrigerators now have filters to "clean" the water and that's even better to use.