Review of the new Melitta Caffeo CI

QUOTE (Hannes123 @ Sunday, 26. December 2010)December 2010, 08:14 a.m.)

I'd like to know if hot water runs through the hose that sucks the milk out of the container or milk carton during "easy clean". Can anyone tell me anything about this?

Hallo,
It is first heated and then passed through the milk-conducting parts, including the suction hose. To do this, remove the hose from the milk container and insert it into the drip tray. Then the hose is cleaned and at the end there are small steam shocks in the hose to kill the bacteria.

It is also good to see in this video how the Easy Cleaning Cleaning works.
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Is it actually possible to remove the brewing group from the Melitta for cleaning?

Gruß Holger

Of course, just ask on the homepage.

The milk hose is made of silicone and can therefore, under normal circumstances, not or only rarely become porous.[QUOTE]

My experience with these silicone hoses (transparent, Saeco) is that they become unsightly (yellow) after a certain time, even cleaning becomes increasingly difficult after a while (months to years). That already suggests that the hoses inside become "rougher". But you can buy them by the metre without any problems, so all the probs should be done.

Hello,

I hope I can warm up the thread a little bit about my question:

Does the machine have 2 reservoirs for the pre-ground coffee/espresso or only one?
Should be called, if I then switch from the normal coffee beans to my espresso beans, I must then first "empty" the ONE reservoir until finally the espresso flour arrives, or I also switch the internal reservoir with the lever at the top of the bean compartment (if there are hopefully 2 of them then).

Best thanks for every answer.
Philipp

I would also be very interested to know what is really going on with the switching of the bean containers.
Are the first one or two coffees only leftovers of the other bean variety, which you can hardly taste, or is most of the beans really still of the other variety in the grinder after switching?

At that moment the grinder is still completely filled with the previously ground coffee. This filling quantity corresponds to approx. 1.5 cups.

As the complete contents are not exchanged during the grinding process but residues are always collected somewhere, a more or less pronounced mixture of both types of coffee results for approx. 2-3 cups.

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Hello everyone,

I have another question about CI: Is the milk really not hot enough to make a hot cup of cocoa?

Thank you!

Caffrey

For technical reasons, the milk in every KV with automatic milk frothing system is approx. 45-50°C hot.

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Delonghi ESAM 3000B (2 Moante sehr zufreiden)
Saeco Talea Ring Plus (3 Monate UNzufreiden)
Jura ENA5 (1 Jahr super zufrieden)
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WMF 800 seit 1.12.09 Klasse
Siebträger
Bezzera BZ07 DE mit Bezzera BB005 Timer (Mühle) seit Mai 2011
Nespresso Krups XN 2720 für die Arbeit

Help!

The joy of the new achievement quickly gave way to disillusionment.

Ab and on one selects a coffee etc and it is not prepared although the grinder grinds the coffee to the selected drink. The drip tray is full after 4 selected drinks, the water tank is empty by the same amount. After approx. 4 coffees the water tank is empty. The most annoying thing, however, is that about 5 minutes after switching on the device, the display decides to show everything upside down.

Has anyone here anything similar to report?

Hello? Steam through the hose. Yes, it does. First water through the nozzle (comes out to the outlet), then water through the flushing nozzle to the right of the steam nozzle, comes out mainly to the hose, then it heats up until steam first comes through the nozzle, then it switches over again and sends it through the hose. It'll be nice and clean, too.

But I leave out these black plastic nipples in the hose, then the steam will also flow straight through the EasyClean. See photo da:
milk hose without nipple

Under the link we can also discuss how to get "warm milk" warmer: reduce milk flow or twice through. 60-68°C no problem, unfortunately there is already milk clotting => possibly increased cleaning effort, Melitta certainly did not want that.

Easy Clean is only recommended after foaming, you have to do it yourself, press OK twice.

You put the hose with the free end into a clean cup or the intended rubber hole in the drip tray at the back right; the hole only stays clean if you brush it a little bit regularly, and the cup has the advantage that a little steam and water rinses the hose from the outside .

(When switching off he makes a "half" EasyClean, so only rinsing+steaming out to the outlet; someone might have the hose inappropriate or not at all in the suction nozzle. So starting EasyClean yourself is worth it, and when you switch it off it leaves it out if nobody had used the milk route anymore.)

In the end it's the same with milk: where no brush has gone, it won't really be clean in the course of time, even if it's clean.

That's why Melitta supplied an ingenious brush with a matching diameter.
If I saw it right, made of stainless spring wire and nylon bristles. Keep it well in honour, this thing, it even comes through the injector nozzle between the milk suction nozzle and the steam chamber in the rubber moulding of the milk frother.
Carefully push/turn with a good amount of rinsing up to half the hose and then from the other side.

To switch the type of coffee: it's just a gag, "real" it won't be for the price, because you need two grinders; but maybe we can design something here in the forum. (Start at reprap.org to get interested in 3D plastic printing, would help.

At Guest of March 11, 2012, 11:36 am: "Dry Coffee": that interests me, it seems to be a case for the service. Which software version do you have?
Please register now, then I can also send a mail over the board, and report times, what the service has done, what the cause was. This is the only way we could teach users of the Caffeo CI something new.
Please insist on a detailed service report or "drill".

Greeting!
Andi