Making Coffee With Beans - Electrolux ECG6600 Instruction Book

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Finding out the water hardness level
0 To do this, dip the test strip in cold
water for about 1 second. Shake off
the excess water and look up the hard-
ness level using the pink coloured
fields.
No or one pink field:
Level 1, soft
up to 1.24 mmol/l, or
up to 7° German hardness, or
bis 12.6° French hardness
Two pink fields:
Level 2, medium
up to 2.5 mmol/l, or
up to 14° German hardness, or
bis 25.2° French hardness
Three pink fields:
Level 3, hard
up to 3.7 mmol/l, or
up to 21° German hardness, or
bis 37.8° French hardness
Four pink fields:
Level 4, very hard
over 3.7 mmol/l, or
over 21° German hardness, or
over 37.8° French hardness
Setting and saving the established
water hardness level
You can set 4 levels of hardness. The
appliance is set to level 4 at the fac-
tory.
0 Press the "MENU" button (Figure 5)
when the appliance is switched on.
The menu option «CHOOSE LAN-
GUAGE» appears.
0 Press the scrolling buttons "<" or ">"
(Figure 6) until the menu option
«WATER HARDNESS» appears.
0 Confirm the menu option with the
"OK" button (Figure 6).
The display shows the current setting,
e.g. «WATER HARDNESS 4»
0 Next press the scrolling buttons "<" or
">" (Figure 6) until the established
hardness level is displayed.
0 Confirm the selection with the "OK"
button (Figure 6).
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If "OK" is not pressed, the appliance
automatically returns to the coffee
mode after about 120 seconds without
saving the entries.
The display automatically jumps back
3
to the menu option «WATER HARD-
NESS» after programming».
0 To go back to the coffee mode, press
the "MENU" button (Figure 5) or wait
about 120 seconds until the appliance
automatically jumps back to coffee
mode.
3 You can carry out other menu settings,
see „Menu settings" page 126.
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Making coffee with beans

The following procedure runsfully
automatically when making coffee
with beans: Milling, portioning, press-
ing, prebrewing, brewing and disposing
the brewed coffee grounds.
With the option of setting the grind
level and amount of grounds, you can
adjust the appliance to suit your per-
sonal taste
1 Ensure that you use only pure coffee
beans with no caramelised or aroma-
tised additives. Do not use frozen
beans. Make sure that no foreign
objects, such as small stones, enter the
coffee bean container. Blocking or
damage caused by foreign objects in
the grinder might be excluded from
the guarantee.
The appliance is preset to a medium cup
size and normal coffee strength. Depen-
ding on your taste, select a "short"
espresso or a "long" coffee with crema.
0 Select the desired cup size with the
"cup size" knob (Figure 13). The
selected cup size is displayed.
The appliance is set to normal quanti-
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ties at the factory. You can change and
save these for each cup size as you
wish, see„Setting the cappuccino pro-
gramme (programming the quantity of
milk and coffee)" page 129.