Today, we are cleaning our ice machine! Since we’ve had it for a while now and used it a lot, we noticed that it had started to get really dirty. Not sure if it was stuff from the air or if stuff had started growing in the machine from the water.

Anyway, we had to take it apart. We took many different approaches, but must of them didn’t end up working. In the end we finally figured it out and it was actually simpler than expected. The longest part was trying to take the machine apart, since we didn’t exactly know what we were doing.

But, all in all, we got it apart and it was dirtier than we expected! We used vinegar water to clean it because we didn’t want to use soap, just in case some soap got left behind. Who would want to use soapy ice? NOT ME!

Then we had to put it all back together which was rather quick! For safe measures we ran some vinegar water through the machine to get any dirt or potential mold out of the pipes. Took about 3 to 4 batches of ice to get ride of all the vinegar water, but we did and now the ice machine looks and acts brand new!

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