Hello!

Why are my coffees tasting metallic? I use long life milk decided to make coffee using my coffee machine… I have not used it for a while. I used some Harris coffee which was new, frothed up the milk and after making my coffee it tasted metallic, not nice! At first I thought okay not used to that coffee before so went back to my old coffee, froth up more milk… Wow yuk! It tasted like metallic again. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Posted by Elizabeth, 15/10/13

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  • That sometimes happens to me too. I don’t know why though.


  • Really interesting reading the comments to this!


  • maybe get a check up – there are all sorts of neurological things, and reactions to medications that can have this reaction… good luck


  • Sounds like a descaling issue..unless you were pregnant?


  • you have to descale it. i bought descaling solution from target and it was hard to find as it was in the kitchen utensil section
    follow instructions and you’ll be right. my coffee machine has a light that tells you when you have to do it


  • I have the same problem sometimes. I just clean and run hot water through it. 🙂


  • What did you end up doing?


  • there are some good comments here


  • I love my coffee, id hate if that happened to me!


  • sounds like the machine needs cleaned or descaled


  • what did you end up using?


  • What did you end up doing to get rid of the metallic taste?


  • Try descaling the machine and also check the water


  • Did it taste better after cleaning the machine?


  • Thw machine might need a good cleaning.


  • Did you end up finding out why?


  • Are you pregnant? The reason I am asking this is because when my wife was pregnant and towards the end of her pregnancy a lot of things she was eating and drinking started tasting like a metallic taste and it was her hormones going haywire. It stopped about a couple of weeks after she gave birth to her twins.


  • Another thought, do you store your coffee in a metal container?


  • Hope you found a solution to this


  • Hmmmm…. Could you be pregnant? Metallic tasting coffee has been the first sign for both of my pregnancies!


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