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I was not a coffee drinker before I went to Perth, WA. The bitter taste in my mouth is something I will never forget, from my initial attempt at Crank Recording. “Coffee was not hot, but I will drink it,” Lee said. That is the first time I used the ROK espresso machine to make a cup of Long Black for Lee. First to give it a try, a little like it; Additive to it, and become a coffee drinker. Within the time that flies, the coffee cup will build up stains. What are the stains? It is actually the bacteria and germs. It is a little tricky to clean coffee stains. In terms of coffee stains, it showed up at the bottom of the cup after thirty cups. First, I have tried using toothpaste to clean up the mess. Second, use a certain ratio of white vinegar plus baking soda to eliminate the stains. Initially, I found that the toothpaste would make a mess around the cleaning area, which is not good for the time and takes me thousands of seconds to finish the job. Thus, I turn to a new way to clean, which is the ratio of white vinegar and baking soda. It took me one second to do the work and it is easy and efficient. But however, the stains are at the bottom of the cup, which is hard to wipe off using the ratio method. Inside stains on a coffee cup are easy, but stains at the bottom of the cup are tough jobs. Finally, I found that the toothpaste could easily take away the black spots. Now my long black mug turns back to its original form from IKEA. I love long black, mate.