Setting The Water Hardness; Making Coffee With Beans - Electrolux ECG6400 Instruction Book

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Setting the water hardness

After putting the machine into opera-
tion for the first time, or when using a
different water quality, you should set
the machine to the water hardness
level corresponding to the local water
hardness. You can use the enclosed test
strip to determine the water hardness,
or contact your local water supply
company.
Determining water hardness
0 Dip the test strip in cold water for
around 1 second. Shake off the excess
water, and gauge the hardness by
means of the pink bands.
No pink bands or one pink band:
Hardness level 1, soft
up to 1.24 mmol/l, or
up to 7° German hardness, or
up to 12.6° French hardness
Two pink bands:
Hardness level 2, medium hard
up to 2.5 mmol/l, or
up to 14° German hardness, or
up to 25.2° French hardness
Three pink bands:
Hardness level 3, hard
up to 3.7 mmol/l, or
up to 21° German hardness, or
up to 37.8° French hardness
Four pink bands:
Hardness level 4, very hard
over 3.7 mmol/l or
over 21° German hardness, or
over 37.8° French hardness
Setting and saving the water hard-
ness level
You can set 4 hardness levels. The cof-
fee machine is factory-set to hardness
level 4.
0 With the machine switched on, press
the "Menu" key (Fig. 4).
The menu item «CHOOSE LAN-
GUAGE» appears.
0 Press the scrolling keys "<" or ">"
(Fig. 5) until the menu item «WATER
HARDNESS» appears.
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0 Confirm the menu item with the "OK"
key (Fig. 5).
The display indicates the current set-
ting, e.g. «WATER HARDNESS 4»
0 Then press the scrolling keys "<" or ">"
(Fig. 5) until the determined hardness
level is displayed.
0 Confirm the selection with the "OK"
key (Fig. 5).
If "OK" is not pressed, after about
120 sec., the appliance returns auto-
matically to the coffee mode without
storing the settings.
3 After programming the display returns
automatically to the menu item
«WATER HARDNESS».
0 To return to the coffee mode, then press
the "Menu" key (Fig. 4) or wait about
120 sec. for the machine to automati-
cally return to the coffee mode.
You can make other menu settings, see
3
„Menu settings", page 118.
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Making coffee with beans

The following process for making cof-
fee with beans runs completely auto-
matically: Grinding, portioning,
pressing, pre-brewing, brewing and
ejection of the coffee grounds.
The facility to select the grinding tex-
ture and the quantity of coffee to be
ground allows you to individually set
up the coffee machine to suit your
own personal 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 make coffee
with a medium cup size and a normal
strength. You can also choose a short
espresso or a long "milky" coffee.