Remember me saying this the other day:

“… fire up my trusty Senseo® coffee machine which, by the way, will need to be replaced soon after many, many years of loyal service”

Well, today I found out that it may not be as bad as it looked. Better yet, my coffee machine seems to be its old self again and now only leaks just a few drops instead of say, oh, half a cup … :-) And the magic substance that fixed it all is called ‘water’. Yes, I know, that sounds very familiar and you may indeed have heard of it before.

What I did was take the thing apart as far as possible without tools (not including brute force) and let it soak in water with soap for roughly a day and a half while getting my kicks from a few cups of tea instead.

This evening I reassembled it again in a way that would have made Johnny Five proud and, voila, uncle Biek can enjoy a good cup of coffee again. My coffee machine’s second life also saves me the trouble of looking through the entire line of Senseo® coffee machines they have now and choosing a worthy successor for it.

Have a nice evening, I know I will!