2 tasks for this machine.
Clean the milk system
DailyAn automatic milk system is a pump, a tube and a frothing head, all holding milk at room temperature between drinks. It is the least forgiving part of a super-automatic and the usual reason one starts to smell.
What you need
- The maker's milk-system cleaner from Jura, DeLonghi or Philips, or a milk detergent such as Rinza where the manual allows it. A container for the rinse output.
What goes wrong
- Relying on the automatic rinse and never taking the head apart. Missing the air-intake hole, which makes the froth collapse and reads as a broken machine. Using coffee detergent on milk protein. Leaving the tube sitting in the milk carton in the fridge.
The procedure
- Run the machine's milk rinse cycle after the last milk drink of the day, with the tube standing in a jug of clean water.
4 more steps
The rest is in the app, with a reminder when it is next due.
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Every 6 monthsPod machines have a small thermoblock and a narrow water path, so scale shows up as a weak, slow, spluttering extraction long before anything actually breaks.
What you need
- The maker's descaling kit, or citric acid at about 10g per litre if the manual allows it. A container for the output.
What goes wrong
- Descaling with a capsule loaded. Using undiluted vinegar, which perishes the small internal seals these machines use. Rinsing with one tank instead of two. Treating a blocked pod-piercing needle as scale when it is dried coffee - that needs a paperclip, not descaler.
The procedure
- Eject any capsule and empty the drip tray and capsule bin.
4 more steps
The rest is in the app, with a reminder when it is next due.
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