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Maintenance guides / Cleaning

Coffee residue care

Coffee machine cleaning

“Cleaning the coffee machine” can mean several different jobs. The useful starting point is to identify where the residue is: removable brew parts, an espresso group head, a bean-to-cup coffee path or the milk system.

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WHAT THIS JOB IS FORCleaning removes coffee oils, grounds and milk residue. Descaling removes mineral deposits from the water system. They are different maintenance jobs and usually use different products.

Choose the cleaning route

Two cleaning jobs. Two different products.

Ventori Backflush
ESPRESSO COFFEE-OIL CARE

Ventori Backflush

For compatible blind-basket and cleaning-disc routines.

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Bean-to-Cup Cleaner
AUTOMATIC MACHINE CARE

Bean-to-Cup Cleaner

For compatible machine-specific tablet cleaning programmes.

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When it comes up

When should you think about cleaning?

01

The machine shows a cleaning or CLEAN ME prompt.

02

Coffee oils or residue are visible on removable brew parts.

03

The manufacturer specifies a periodic tablet-cleaning or backflush routine.

The safe general approach

The machine procedure still wins.

Use this as orientation. The exact controls, product placement and programme sequence should come from your model-specific guide.

01

Start with the exact machine guide rather than a generic tablet-cleaning routine.

02

Clean user-removable parts at the frequency the manufacturer recommends.

03

Use backflush tablets only where the machine supports a backflush or cleaning-disc cycle.

04

Use bean-to-cup cleaning tablets only via the route specified for that automatic machine.

Important

Never assume one cleaning tablet can be used in every part of the machine. Placement and programme type are machine-specific.

Choose the right cleaning job

Cleaning is not one single process.

Espresso backflushing

Group-head and coffee-oil cleaning for compatible espresso machines.

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Bean-to-cup cleaning

Coffee-oil and brew-system cleaning for automatic machines.

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Troubleshooting

Start with the warning or symptom if something is not working normally.

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Use the exact machine procedure

Choose the machine family next.

Ventori machine pages turn the general maintenance job into the controls, prompts and sequence for the model you actually own.

MACHINE GUIDES

Espresso machine maintenance

Backflushing · group cleaning · steam hygiene · water care

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Bean-to-cup maintenance

Brew groups · tablet programmes · filters · descaling

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Philips bean-to-cup

Brew-group and coffee-oil care

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Sage espresso

Backflush, cleaning-disc and steam care

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De'Longhi

Infuser, coffee-path and milk-system care

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Ninja Luxe Café

CLEAN cycle, group-head and froth-system care

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JURA

Integrated cleaning programmes and milk-system care

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Siemens EQ

Calc’nClean, brew-unit and milk-system care

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Gaggia Classic

Group, backflush and steam care

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Rancilio Silvia

Group cleaning and backflush workflow

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Rocket Espresso

Prosumer group, steam and water care

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LELIT

LELIT57 / LELIT58 group cleaning, steam care and water softening

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Something not going to plan?

Troubleshoot the symptom, not the guess.

If a warning will not clear or a programme behaves differently from expected, start with the symptom before repeating the maintenance job.

Cleaning light stays onOpen troubleshooting →Brew group will not come outOpen troubleshooting →Steam wand or milk system blockedOpen troubleshooting →See all maintenance problemsTroubleshooting hub →

Related care tasks

Keep the jobs separate, but connected.

Espresso coffee-oil care

Backflushing

Backflushing cleans the coffee side of a compatible espresso machine. Descaling treats mineral build-up in the water path. Do not swap one process for the other.

Open guide →Automatic-machine coffee care

Bean-to-cup cleaning

Bean-to-cup cleaning targets coffee residue. Descaling targets mineral deposits in the water circuit. A machine can be due for one without being due for the other.

Open guide →Mineral scale care

Descaling

Descaling targets limescale and mineral deposits in the water system. It is not the same as removing coffee oils from the brew path.

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