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Russell Hello I'm here, Russell,
Mark Jackson and I'm Mark Jackson.
Russell And in this video, we're going to discuss how to backflush your machine. To know the machine needs to be backflush, you recommend that you look at your user's manual, of course, can always give us a call. So what that stressing does is it removes oil and coffee gum build up some parts such as your solenoid valve, your brew group, your shower screen, your just version plate. For what we're you you wanna do this about once a week. We recommend you use products such as earnings to fees up, And Ers Is omni certified organic.
Russell It's Nsf approved and it's also kosher. So Mark, once don't you go ahead and show how you deck for these machine.
Mark Jackson Hi. In this video, we are gonna go into back flushing, but I did wanna to give you a little bit of ice. Any machine that has a 3 way solenoid valve and our pros machines can be backflush, of course both the guys machines and the rand sylvia also have a 3 way solenoid, but the manufacturer does not recommend you back flush those machines. Now to showing you how to backflush
n/a your machine. Also your need is you're going to need your porta filter. You're going to need a Backflushing or a blind filter basket that sometimes called and what it is it's basically a desk that has no holes in it, so allows the water to go back through the machine. And then out the 3 way solenoid valve or the outlet provided by your machine. I'm going to show you a little trick actually to what we're going to take and get prepare our porta filter backflush We're take the back flush disc.
Mark Jackson We're going to turn upside down. And then we're
n/a going to use the bottom upside down edge. To remove the basket from our porter filter. So you just wedge it under there like that, really easy you to do. Pop it out, pop this 1 in make sure it's locked in there securely. There we go.
n/a We have it in there. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna follow the fact. Year's direction. And of course, we're going to use By Earn. The manufacturer recommends that use half a teaspoon or 3 games of backflush material.
n/a So I'm going to dump it into my porta filter. And then I'm going to lock it into my group head or On this machine, this is the past we need Libya. So it does have a free flow button. I'm going to go ahead and show you how this works. And what I want to do is I'm going to press the button.
n/a I'm going to let it run for 10 seconds, and then I'm going to stop it. I'm going to repeat that 5 times. Not going to show you all 5 times, I think once will suffice. And then after that, I'll show you
Mark Jackson what we do next. We're going
n/a to go ahead. We're going to hit the button And we're gonna to let run for about 7 to 10 seconds. And then we're gonna go ahead and stop it. Alright. Now that we've back flushed our machine 5 times using the.
Mark Jackson What we're going to do in nexus is, we're going to go ahead and rinse it out. So that removes all the stuff and the cleaning and the detergent that are in there, it's very simple to do is basically repeating the process without the ka. So we're going to go ahead and we're going
n/a to lock our group handle in there. And then we're gonna to go ahead and we're going let it run again. We're going gonna do about 10 seconds again.
Mark Jackson And then we're gonna stop it.
n/a And we're gonna repeat that 5 times. Now that we've gone ahead and we've Backflushing machine using the 5 times. We also have rinsed at 5 times using the back flush disc. We're going to finish off the process. The last process is very simple.
n/a All you want to do is run clean water through the group head and it's very easy to do. We're going to do is we're going to go ahead and hit a button, let it run for about 10 seconds. Now we've done the a programmable machine. Should you have a machine like
Mark Jackson the B, the process is very similar. All you're going
n/a to do instead of pushing a button? Just going to go ahead and lift the lever, of course, with the backflush disc and the, following the manufacturer's instructions in the. You're and you're just going to lift the lever and let it run for 10 seconds, push the lever down. You're going to repeat that process 5 times. And then of course, you're going to rinse it 5 times as we did before.
n/a And again, the last process is just going to go ahead and run some clean water through it. The nice thing about back flushing your machine is that your shots will always taste clean and crisp and you're going
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