descaling ?

frangipane

HI all, wondering if anyone knows how much powder to put through a kitchenaid coffee machine. It is a krups anticalc kit with no instructions. Have checked out the website already with no joy. Any tips would be appreciated.

john

Hi Frangipane Sorry, I can't help you on this, but I suggest you contact the Kitchenaid company for specific instructions. I believe that there are some machines that you can't descale!!! You need to check to make sure this one can be. JD

mattyj

hmmm yeah, check what the boilers are made of. If they use gaggia boilers, they'd be aluminium, right? What does de-scaling do to aluminium? Component-wise (group head, portafilter, steam arm), it looks like gaggia parts.

john

mattyj Descaling and aluminium!!!! mmmmm: that will depend on the descaling chemical and how long you leave it in contact with the aluminium. Again check with your equipment supplier. JD

askthecoffeeguy

Well, I've got a 7 yr old baby gaggia and a bezerra semi-commercial single group machine at home, and I don't use chemiclas on either of them! I do backwash and flush out between each coffee, however, and only use filtered water with my machines. I also take them in to a local coffee supplier for a regular service every year or two, and get them to descale the machine properly Fo a domestic machine, though, I woud be using only the equivalent of a little fingernail's worth of powered cleaning solution, and disolve this with some hot water, before applying it to the machine. Drink well, ACG

FreshCoffee2

a) usually (but not always) a pouch of descaling powder is intended to be dissolved in a litre of water. But of course cant be sure without intructions on our pouch of descaling powder.... b) If as people say the kitchenaid has the gaggia aluminium boilers fitted, and gaggia is manufactured by saeco, then you might *guess* that's its ok to use descaling pouches as supplied for saeco machines, which is (or was last time I checked)  basically nothing more than citric acid and, as above you would dissolve the contents of said pouch into a litre of water. Trouble is, this is only assumption and I would suggest you must check with the importer or service providers for kitchenaid (not a retail outlet please...unless they can sell you a pouch of kitchenaid product so there can be no quastion of compatability etc). I dont know of any association between krupps / gaggia / saeco so for the sake of the purchase price of a pouch of descaling powder which will be less than $5.00 I wouldnt risk putting the krupps product into your machine in case it is not compatible with the material the boilers in your machine are manufactured from. Its as simple as that....the best course of action for you in this instance is to direct your enquiry to the kitchenaid service providers. Regardz, FC.

dan480

one spoon of Tartaric acid(find it in Safeway) in 1 litre of water.Run it thru..and than 1 liter clean water.. Daniel