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Tips und Tricks
Tips and Tricks for Perfect Coffee Beverages
Tips and tricks
Water quality
Water quality is extremely important for preparing your coffee
specialities. Excessive lime and chlorine will adversely affect
the aroma. Prevent this by using the WMF water filter.
Descaling also protects your WMF 1000 against scaling.
Warm-up rinse
Run a warm-up rinse on the machine after switching on and
after long pauses between use. This allows espresso to
achieve its ideal temperature more quickly.
For a good espresso it is particularly important that it is hot.
Pre-warm the cups
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You can pre-warm the cups by placing them on the heated cup
storage.
Alternatively we recommend pre-warming the cups with hot
water.
The right cups
Use espresso cups of thick porcelain, which retain the pre-
warm heat better. Their maximum capacity is 60 ml - but they
should only ever be filled two-thirds full - and they are tapered.
If the cups are too large, they allow the espresso to cool down
too quickly at the surface.
Water filter insertion - see "Commissioning" chapter; Warm-up rinse - see "Care" chapter; Coffee taste program - see "Beverage settings" chapter;
Brewing temperature setting - see "Basic settings" chapter; Grinding degree setting - see "Other settings" chapter;
Coffee bean filling - see "Commissioning" chapter.
Programming the taste of the coffee
Programming the strength of the coffee, the quantities of
water and milk for individual coffee specialities to your taste.
Brewing temperature
The brewing temperature is factory-set to 92°C, which is ideal
for coffee with 100% Arabica beans. If you are using coffee
with a proportion of Robusta beans, a reduction in brewing
temperature to 88°C is recommended.
Grinding degree
Together with the quantity of ground coffee, the grinding
degree exerts a critical influence over the generation of what
is called "body" or "fill" of the coffee, and the formation and
persistence of the crème. The finer the coffee is ground, the
more strongly its contents are released into the coffee. You
should match the grinding degree to the variety of coffee used.
Quantity of coffee beans
Once roasted coffee beans have been unpacked, they lose
their aromatic components within days. Therefore only pour as
many beans into the coffee bean hopper as you expect to use
in the next few days; frequent topping up is better.
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