Tips on Cleaning an Espresso Maker

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Natalja from the Red Brick Cafe and on behalf of expertvillage.com; we are going to learn to make espresso blended drinks with care and excellence. You've worked all day, and now it is time to clean. The first thing you want to do is to remove porter filter from the grill pad and you want to exchange the perforated basket with a solid one. Because we're actually going to back flush the machine. What that means, is that there's a lot of coffee, residues of coffees and oils, stuck in the shower head that's in here. And by back-flushing the machine, we're getting rid of all the residues. Ok the next thing you want to do is put some coffee cleaner into the basket. You don't have to do that all the time. Some people prefer to do that, but I like to do it, maybe, three times a week. Depends how busy you are in your coffee shop. At least at the end of each shift, you should at least back flush it with water, I anything else. So we're going to put the basket up here. Then we're going to press one of the manual buttons, and actually have the water run. But it's not going to run through because the basket is obviously not perforated. There we go, it starts blinking, and we're going to stop it again. And then you repeat this a few times, depending on how much you've used your machine and how much you feel that you need to clean it. Especially if you're using the coffee cleaner, you really need to flush it well to get all the soap out."