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Switch off completely
• Pull the power plug after each use for safe switch-off.
Cleaning and maintenance
Interesting facts
Attention: Hazard of injury!
• Always unplug the appliance before cleaning!
• Never immerse the base unit and the mains plug in water or
clean them under running water!
• Do not touch the blade!
• Handle cutting tools with care to avoid injuries!
For ensuring a constant grinding quality, we recommend cleaning the coffee grinder regularly after each use.
• Carefully remove powder residues of the beans tank. We recommend using a normal pastry brush.
• Clean the beans tank and the blade with a damp tissue and wipe them dry.
• Clean the lid of the beans tank in hot water with some dishwashing detergent. Before the next use, the
lid must be completely dry.
• Clean the outside of the unit with a damp tissue and wipe it dry.
• Do not use any abrasives or solvents!
• Never use a steam jet appliance for cleaning!
• The taste of beverages containing coffee depends on the quality of the used coffee or espresso beans.
Condition for the aromatic preparation of beverages with coffee is the perfect grinding of the roasted
beans as this increases the surface for the contact with water and thus, the release of flavours.
• A roasted coffee bean contains more than 1,000 different flavouring substances. The finer the grinding,
the more substances are released.
• After a few minutes already, the ground powder loses more the 50 % of its flavour. Therefore, coffee
specialists recommend storing whole coffee beans and only grinding the quantity just needed.
• Different coffee beverages require different coarseness settings; but also the beans’ sort and roasting as
well as your personal taste decide on how fine the coffee powder should be ground. Take our
recommendations (see below) as basis and try yourself until you have found your individual coarseness
setting:
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Coarse powder is suitable for hand-filtered coffee.
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Medium powder is used with usual boiler espresso machines.
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Fine powder is suitable for filter coffee makers or for automatic pump pressure espresso machines.
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Extra-fine powder is recommended for manual mocha-making.
