How to use a coffee maker: how to make coffee?

Even the most expensive coffee maker will not prepare coffee drinks herself. To cook delicious, fragrant and strong coffee requires knowledge of certain rules of use of the coffee maker. Today we will talk about that, how to use the device and describe some recipes for making coffee in a coffee machine.

Debugging and using the device

Regardless, which you bought a coffee maker: built-in or detached; pump or boiler; carob, chaldovih, capsule, espresso or automatic; Dolce Gusto apparatus, Delonghi, Saeko or Bosch, you need to study first, how to set up a coffee maker. The attached instruction will help with it. Each device has its own characteristics, but there are common points, which we will talk about.

General rules for setting up a household coffee machine:

1. Install the appliance.
2. Before using the coffee maker, you need to clean all the tanks from dust.
3. Connect the appliance to the electricity and water supply (if the purchased model provides for this).
4. Turn on the coffee maker, as if it were Delonghi, Bosch or Saeco, by pressing a special button. The device is turned on 15 seconds (only during the first switch-on) will run quite noisy.
5. Pour cold water into the tank (volume of water tanks, depending on the model of the device, varies within 0,8-5 liters). Why cold? To avoid damage to plastic parts. In the process of boiling water on the heating elements of the machine (Delonghi, Nespresso, Saeco et al.) Scale is formed. To minimize these deposits, we recommend using filtered water.
6. Make coffee in a coffee machine, for example, the Delonghi brand, required at a certain water temperature. You can adjust it with the regulator, which is located on the front panel of the device D It indicates the minimum, low, average, high and maximum temperature. Coffee is prepared at room temperature 90-98 degrees.
7. Be sure to drain the first water, then refill the tank with water.
8. The process of making coffee in the car, as if it were Dolce Gusto, Nespresso or Bosch, involves adjusting the level of water hardness. To make coffee, you also need to set the amount of liquid per serving.
9. How to make coffee without beans? In the presence of the built-in coffee grinder, fill it with grains and adjust the amount of grinding. If this is not provided - use ground coffee. Some models are designed to use capsules with pressed coffee, which before, how to prepare a drink should be placed in a special compartment.
10. The amount of coffee per serving is also adjustable. To make espresso in a coffee machine you need 8 grams of raw materials, respectively double espresso is prepared with 16 grams of coffee.
11. Before making coffee, we recommend heating the cup, pour boiling water over it and put under the nozzle.
12. Decide on the type of coffee and choose the appropriate program. The brewed drink will fill the cup for 30 seconds.
13. Such machines, as Delonghi "remembers" how to make coffee, simpler models require additional configuration.
14. If you do not use the coffee maker anymore 15 minutes, it will go into standby mode.