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Your Coffee Maker Is Dirtier Than Your Toilet Seat, and a Microbiologist Explains the 30-Second Fix

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Your coffee maker has been keeping a dirty little secret. In NSF International’s 2011 Household Germ Study, coffee reservoirs had higher germ counts, on average, than toilet seats and bathroom door handles. Yeast and mold showed up in half of the reservoirs tested. The reservoir (the compartment that holds the water) is easy to overlook […]

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