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Prior to initial use
For a start, please clean the appliance as well as all accessories. For more detailed information please refer
to “Cleaning and maintenance”.
Interesting facts
• 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 looses 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.
– Coarse powder is suitable for hand-filtered coffee.
– Medium powder is used with usual boiler espresso machines.
– Fine powder is suitable for filter coffee makers or for automatic pump pressure espresso machines.
– Extra-fine powder is recommended for manual mocha-making.
Operating the appliance
Attention:
The appliance is designed for a max. continuous
operating time of 1 minute. If this time has been reached, the
appliance has to cool down for at least 2 minutes. If this is not
observed, the motor might be damaged!
Attention, hazard of injury:
Do not touch the 2-winged blade! Handle the
blade with care to avoid injuries!
Attention, hazard of injury:
The appliance has a delayed motor stop after
it has been switched off – therefore, please wait until it has stopped before
taking the coffee powder out of the beans tank.
Filling the beans tank
• Remove the cover of the beans tank and fill in whole, roasted
beans max. to the top stainless steel edge. The max. filling
quantity is 40 g.
• Afterwards, replace the cover of the beans tank. In doing so, make sure
that the cover fits correctly.
IMPORTANT:
Never grind too hard ingredients, like e. g. nutmeg, or sticky foods, like e. g. cheese or
chocolate!
