Category: Maintenance
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Understanding Hard Water and Its Impact on Your Coffee
When it comes to brewing coffee, water quality is often an overlooked factor. However, if you’re striving for the perfect cup, understanding the role of water is essential. One of the most common concerns is whether you’re using hard water or soft water—and the implications it has on your brew. What is Hard Water? Hard…
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Pod machine low flow
A Dolce Gusto machine came into the workshop with the customer complaining it takes far too long for the machine to make a cup of coffee. Upon the initial testing, it was seen that the heated water flowed very slowly from the outlet and took an unacceptably long time to fill a mug. The experienced…
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Tassimo red light – no coffee
The Bosch Tassimo pod machines are very convenient, quick, and usually error-free. But today, one of the Tassimo machines gave a red light and refused to dispense any coffee. Adding a fresh pod to the head of the machine, closing the lid down, and pressing the button on the Tassimo machine would yield a hot…
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Coffee Machine Error Codes
All the bean-to-cup coffee machines can display error codes. Some more often than others, some more useful than others. Usually an coffee machine error code is just that, a code. Meaningless letter and numbers that need decoding. Without decoding the error code you won’t know what is wrong and therefore what to change/top-up/clean/replace or fix.…
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Cleaning your bean-to-cup coffee machine
Regular cleaning of the internal circuits of the bean-to-cup coffee machine is essential to keep it running smoothly. A clean machine also makes better-tasting coffee. Build up The internal parts of the bean-to-cup machines that come into contact with the coffee build up a layer of coffee oils. These oils and tiny particles of coffee…
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Descale a Bean to Cup machine.
Limescale build-up on the coffee machine heating element can make the device inefficient and potentially fail to heat the water. Hard Water Hard water causes scale build-up on heating elements. You already know if you are in a hard water area, and just look in your kettle for a build-up of a hard white scale…
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Machine Maintenance
The Bean-to-cup coffee machines take more maintenance than a Cafetiere or drip coffee machine, and it requires even more maintenance than a pod machine, but you get freshly ground coffee. Upkeep In terms of maintenance, bean-to-cup coffee machines will require regular upkeep to ensure they work correctly. This may include cleaning the water tank, descaling…