How to clean the coffee machine and grinder
CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COFFEE MACHINE AND GRINDER
To achieve the best espresso, you need to take into account themany factors that affect its extraction. You're looking for the best roast, you've bought a lever espresso machine and now you're fine-tuning the right grinding coarseness, coffee quantity, extraction time or even water temperature. You change the final look, smell and, above all ,taste of your espresso. Apart from these, there's another often overlooked influencing factor of a proper espresso. This is the cleanliness of the machine.
Settled coffee residue clogs the insides of the machine head and contaminates every other coffee you brew. This interferes with and affects theextraction process, as well as altering the taste of coffee prepared in an unclean machine.
Themaintenance of a coffee machine differs between lever and automatic coffee machines. For both, however, it can be divided into aregular daily routine of cleaning the machine and a more consistent cleaning at longer intervals, roughly once every two weeks or once every one or two months. Due to the use of the coffee machine.
CLEANING THE AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE
Automatic coffee makers are in the world to makeit as easy as possiblefor people to make coffee. This also applies to the care of the coffee machine, which, although it requires some help from the user, is largely automated. The basic cleaning of an automatic coffee machine consists of rinsing the brewing unit, which is simply removed from the machine in a few steps.
Use the cleaning programme toflush the milk passages of the coffee machine and, of course, to clean it more thoroughly using coffee machine chemicals and to descale the coffee machine. The handy coffee machine cleaning tablet and the automatic cleaning programme clean the coffee machine thoroughly.
WHAT DO I USE TO CLEAN MY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE?
Cafetto S15tablets are used to clean the coffee paths. They guarantee safe and complete removal of coffee residues and oils from the scalding units of automatic coffee machines. Cleaning of automatic coffee machines should be carried out at least once a month.
If your coffee machine has an automatic cleaning mode in the form of a rinse, we recommend cleaning it at least once every 14 days. Melitta coffee machines, for example, report the need for cleaning according to the number of coffees.
Cafetto S15 tablets contain 100 tablets per pack. The tablets contain only pharmaceutical and food grade ingredients and do not cause corrosion. Recommended for Breville, De Longhi, Miele, Rancillio, Saeco, Schaerer, SCS.
LEVER COFFEE MACHINE CLEANING
Use the"backflush" functionfor daily cleaning ofyour lever coffee machine . It's a simple way to clean the head of the coffee machine in just a few minutes. Many coffee machines have a backflush program installed, which makes cleaning the lever coffee machine partly automatic.
HOW TO CLEAN A COFFEE MACHINE OR WHAT IT IS AND HOW THE "BACKFLUSH" WORKS
- First, use abrush to clean the coffee residue from the head of the coffee machine.
- Remove the basket(coffee strainer) from the lever of the coffee machine and replace it with a blind filter, i.e. a basket with a full bottom. Insert this lever into the head of the coffee maker and run the water. At the same time, swing theleverside to side to move the lever, making it easier to wash away dirt even from hard-to-reach places.
- Then pour about half a teaspoon of cleaning powder into the blind strainer.
- Insert the lever into the head of the machine and run the backwash program or run the backwash cycle onand off manually on the machine.
- Repeat the cleaning cycle, but now without the cleaning chemistry.
- Place the levers and baskets in an infusion of hot water and cleaning powder and allow to deglaze for several hours (perhaps overnight).
- After removing them from this bath, wash them with clean water.
HOW TO CLEAN THE STEAM NOZZLE OF A COFFEE MACHINE
Milk deposits on the nozzle of the coffee machine are dangerous not only for the taste of the coffee. Milk easily becomes a "breeding ground" for bacteria and microorganisms. Thus, milk deposits on the surface and inside the steam nozzle can make their way into your next milky coffee drink and into your body during coffee brewing.
To clean the steam nozzle, use a milk whisking jug and a special cleaning chemical that you dilute with a little water. You inject the steam through the nozzle into the diluted product in the teapot, which you leave in this concoction to soak for some time. Remember to unscrew and thoroughly clean the steam nozzle tip when cleaning.
HOW TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN YOUR COFFEE MACHINE MONTHLY
In a month or two, give your coffee maker even more consistent maintenance. Your coffee maker will thank you for it and your coffee will taste better again. For this thorough cleaning of your coffee maker, you will need a wrench to loosen the hex screw that holds the shower head in the coffee maker.
Using a brush and a wet rag, clean the inside of the coffee maker head and the removed components of the coffee maker shower. You can add these to the cleaning chemical bath to the coffee maker levers for easier cleaning . Finally, put the cleaned and washed parts back in and secure with a screw (be careful not to damage the coffee maker shower screen by tightening too hard).
WHAT CAN I USE TO CLEAN MY LEVER COFFEE MAKER?
Cafetto Evo is a product that has been tested and certified by NSF to ensure that the product does not stain or cause corrosion. This cleaner is inORGANIC quality - certified organic - suitable for home and professional lever coffee machines.
It quicklydissolves and subsequently removes coffee oils and any coffee deposits that restrict the throughput of the coffee machine. Improves the taste and aroma of the resulting coffee. Leaves no trace of odour and does not cause corrosion on the equipment. Approximately 250 doses are included in the pack, the dispenser is contained in a container for accurate dosing.
COFFEE GRINDER CLEANING
It is not only from the coffee machine or its milkways that unpleasant aftertastes caused by old coffee residues can be transferred to your coffee. Your grinder also deserves regular care to prevent coffee from settling and potentially moulding in the machine.
Yet regular cleaning of yourcoffee grinder is so simple. With the help of special cleaning tablets or granules. You pour a dose of this product into the empty grinder and grind. Theproduct binds coffee residues and oils andtakes them away from the inside of the grinder. Then grind some roasted coffeethrough the grinder before using it again.
HOW TO CLEAN A COFFEE GRINDER
Cafetto Grinder Clean is a coffee grinder cleaner that is 100% natural and chemical-free. It removes accumulated coffee residue and coffee odours. Reduces clogging between the stones and the inner chambers. It is used without the need to dismantle the grinding stone. Improves machine performance and grinding stone life.
CLEANING PRODUCTS FOR DESCALING THE COFFEE MACHINE
Cafetto Liquid Organic Descaler. This is a liquid, organic cleaner used to remove calcium and limescale. It can also remove calcium from the kettle, boiler and other equipment. Liquid Organic Descaler has been awarded an eco-certificate. Its ingredients are completely degradable and also meet international standards.
Descale the coffee machine as soon as the coffee machine signals the need for descaling. If you have hard water, it is a good idea todescale every 2-3 months. The cleaning agent does not contain phosphates. In addition, its ingredients are easily biodegradable. The product has been tested by NSF.
