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Permalink Reply by Brady on July 20, 2011 at 4:47am

I don't believe that you'd damage it, unless the plastic was in contact with the solution.

 

However it is unnecessary, and probably no more effective than just a longer soak, or a shorter soak for a couple of minutes on a regular basis. The other thing is that espresso detergent is meant to be used at very high temperatures. I've noticed a huge difference in effectiveness between solution that was near-boiling and solution that was at room temp. So I suspect that the first 10 minutes in the solution are going to do far more than the several hours that follow.

 

Yes, I've read about people using Oxiclean. (I've also seen people use purple kitchen degreaser to backflush their machine, fwiw). Apparently Oxiclean appears to have the same active ingredient, and people feel that it is safe. I don't have a tub kicking around right now, but don't recall it saying that it was NSF approved for use on foodservice equipment. I also haven't seen it listed in a machine operators manual before. For these reasons, I do not recommend it.

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Permalink Reply by Carmen Guardado on July 20, 2011 at 11:18am

Thanks....very helpful! 

Brady said:

I don't believe that you'd damage it, unless the plastic was in contact with the solution.

 

However it is unnecessary, and probably no more effective than just a longer soak, or a shorter soak for a couple of minutes on a regular basis. The other thing is that espresso detergent is meant to be used at very high temperatures. I've noticed a huge difference in effectiveness between solution that was near-boiling and solution that was at room temp. So I suspect that the first 10 minutes in the solution are going to do far more than the several hours that follow.

 

Yes, I've read about people using Oxiclean. (I've also seen people use purple kitchen degreaser to backflush their machine, fwiw). Apparently Oxiclean appears to have the same active ingredient, and people feel that it is safe. I don't have a tub kicking around right now, but don't recall it saying that it was NSF approved for use on foodservice equipment. I also haven't seen it listed in a machine operators manual before. For these reasons, I do not recommend it.

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