milk frother cleaner?
just invested in some cafetto milk frother cleaner aaaand some urnex grindz grinder cleaner. anyone familiar with these product? have any tips? how to's? what not to do's? :)
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Permalink Reply by Jesse -D-> on
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Grindz is great, run a cap full through your grinder followed by at least 3 caps of coffee beans (I like to use stuff a little past its prime so I'm not wasting) ,good as new. I think it is made from barley, totally food safe, taste some. Never used this milk frother cleaner you speak of. The fact that it isn't called steam wand cleaner makes me nervous. I just soak the wand in a weak Pully Caffe solution over night ans then steam a few pitchers of cold H2O. It is good to do this before you are open because steaming H2O is very noisy.
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Permalink Reply by nik orosi on
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some more with grindz, its good to set your grinder at finest and then grind some amount of grindz, the problem that can be sometimes, burns can be stacked and you are not able to grind anything anymore, so just set grinder to coarser and you will release left overs on your burns....stay clean!
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Permalink Reply by Mallory on
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noted on the milk frother cleaner. apparently the fine print on the bottle states it's for automatic 'frothers.' i found that odd as well.
secondly, nik... so set it to fine then coarse or.... just coarse all the way through?? :) thanks so much!
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when i was in mahlkonig factory in germany (as grindz is their product) they said to set i to fine, but i found that burns are getting stacked to many times, so to start them work again, set latter to coarse in order to release what has left inside...no problems at all, just feeling a bit confused...
as for steam wands clean stuff, same as jesee d, making me bit afraid, better to put them in hot water and some lemon inside, will clean all, the best way for cleaning steam wands...or order la marzocco with teflon covered steam wands and portafilters as i have....
dont worry, lemon and water, the less expensive way...
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be careful with lemon, it has sugar which can carmalize on anything when heat is applied. I suggest white vineager and a good rinse if you are going the cheap route.
nik orosi said:when i was in mahlkonig factory in germany (as grindz is their product) they said to set i to fine, but i found that burns are getting stacked to many times, so to start them work again, set latter to coarse in order to release what has left inside...no problems at all, just feeling a bit confused...
as for steam wands clean stuff, same as jesee d, making me bit afraid, better to put them in hot water and some lemon inside, will clean all, the best way for cleaning steam wands...or order la marzocco with teflon covered steam wands and portafilters as i have....
dont worry, lemon and water, the less expensive way...
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indeed...i was actually using lemon to clean steam wands from outside...
cheep route....great, lol...
thanks for laugh...
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Permalink Reply by Brady on
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Regarding steam wand cleaning... any reason not to just give it a good soak, scrub, and wipe? Better yet, just keep clean by wiping after every pitcher?
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we're pretty vigilant wiper-downers and whatnot, but i think we were on the hunt for some sort of coarse cleaner... so as to get the inner gunk outta the wand, know what i mean? understandably there is the option of disassembly, scrub, and soak, but we were just tooling around for some cleaner designed for that specifically.
;)
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Permalink Reply by Brian Davey on
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The Cafetto MFC works well to run through SA machines but also equally as well on Steam wands, pitchers, and Blender Jars. It goes after milk enzymes much like Cafiza (or any other phosphate based cleaner) goes after coffee oils. That odd yellow film that you can find on pitchers after months of use will be removed and you will feel much better about putting fresh clean milk into them. Use whatever you dump out in your same sink you dump excess milk in. Then you get double use out of it. I use it for nasty blender jars and any other polycarbonate containers that come through the shop. It is just safe on plastics and internal tubing...thats why they say it is safe for super autos. Cafetto also makes a product called Inverso that is specifically designed for stainless steaming pitchers. Thank you for keeping your stuff clean.
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