You love your morning dose of Espresso and wouldn’t trade it for anything.
But most importantly, you want to always get it ready and sweet at a few clicks of the buttons of your Espresso-making machine.
And that’s exactly why these daily coffee machine maintenance tips I am sharing here are a lifesaver.
To keep your coffee-maker ALWAYS in the best shape possible.
This way, you can enjoy the BEST BLEND every morning without wasting time and energy trying to make your coffee equipment work.
Let’s get to it! By the way, check https://greatcoffeebrewers.com/ for your quality coffee makers at affordable prices.
Complete Backflush
A full backflush done at the end of each day helps to remove all the coagulated coffee grounds during operations in the day. For a full backflush;
- Get equipped with your machine brush and scrub the group heads to loosen those coffee grounds
- Wash with the coffee machine detergent
- Repeat until the solution water coming out is clean
- Rinse with water
- Pull several shots of coffee out to remove the presence of washing detergent.
Steam Wand Cleaning
Though not all coffee makers use a steam wand, if yours did, it’s important to keep it clean every day to allow steady outflow of the steam out of the machine. Here’s how to go about it.
- Carefully remove the tip of the steam wand
- Prepare a solution of warm water and washing soap
- Sit the steam wand tip in the warm soap solution for 20 minutes
- Leaving it in the warm soap solution over the night is more advisable
Draining Hose Cleaning
Cleaning the dip-tray drain line of your Espresso machine is another important daily maintenance for your equipment. To do this;
- Provide an empty bucket
- Unplug the drain hose from the trap-end
- All leftover coffee to pour into the empty bucket
- Add 3 tablespoons of TSP to the dip-tray
- Transfer hot water into the dip-tray as well to dissolve the TSP
- Unplug the drain hose from its end to allow the hot water solution to flow through
- Repeat this until the hot water solution flowing out is clean
- Now, plug the drain hose back and add another hot water solution to the dip-tray
- Leave for about 15 or 20 minutes
- Unplug the drain hose again to allow the hot water solution to flow out along with whatever coffee ground has been dissolved during the 15-20 minutes of soaking
- If you have a drain hose brush, use it to brush off sticky coffee grounds from the hose interior
- Finally, rinse the drip-tray and drain hose with clean water
Clean The Portafilters
After a busy day, your portafilter is sure to have collected a lot of coffee oil. You want to clean it daily to avoid getting it clogged and non-functional. Let me show you how to below;
- Pour hot water into a bowl
- Add 3 tablespoons of Espresso machine washing solution
- Put your baskets and portafilters in the solution
- Make sure they stay under the hot water solution for 15-20 minutes
- Take them out and brush with warm water
- Rinse and towel-dry
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