Creatista Plus

Nespresso

Capsule machine with automatic steam wand.

Care schedule

2 tasks for this machine.

Clean the milk system

Daily

An 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 full procedure is in the app, along with a reminder when this is next due. Add the Creatista Plus to your shelf and it keeps track.

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Descale the machine

Every 6 months

Pod 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.