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Permalink Reply by Brady on September 18, 2009 at 6:35pm

I happen to like the Pallo one... mostly because it has a super long handles so you can scrub the screens with water flowing without burning your fingers. I scrub our screens and gaskets whenever possible during a shift - several times at least.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Shipley on September 18, 2009 at 6:43pm

Buy them, use them often, you really can't clean too much

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Wray on September 18, 2009 at 11:16pm

To be honest, we only use ours at the end of the day. Perhaps we are more anal about how clean the PF is before it gets locked into the machine, but we have very little coffee on the gaskets at the end of the day. Also, flushing the machine (we have a HX machine so this is necessary) frees the screens of any coffee from the previous shot. A couple times a shift I take a towel and just quick wipe the screen, but that's about it. We backflush with Cafiza at noon-2:00 and at 1:00a (we are open from 7:00a-2:00a) and backflush with water all throughout the day.

I also support the Pallo one because of what Brady mentioned, but also, you can buy replacement bristles instead of a whole new brush. And that little scoop on the end is handy for making sure your baristas know how much to put in the blank.

-bry

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