Preparing An Espresso; Preparing Steam; Preparing A Cup Of Coffee; 2-Cup Function - Krups EA80 series User Manual

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Preparing the grinder
You can choose the strength of your coffee by setting the coffee bean grinding fineness. The finer the grinding setting, the
stronger and creamier the coffee should be. Set the desired fineness for grinding by turning the 'Grinding fineness setting'
knob.Turn to the left for finer grind. Turn to the right for coarser grind.
CHANGE THE SETTING DURING GRINDING.
Never force the grinding fineness setting button.

PREPARING ESPRESSO AND LONG COFFEES

YOUR APPLIANCE IS DESIGNED TO MAKE COFFEE FROM COFFEE BEANS ONLY.
When you first make coffee with the machine or after a long period of absence or a cleaning or scale removal
procedure, a little steam and hot water will come out of the steam nozzle (priming).
Splashing or scalding may occur if the coffee outlets are set too high in relation to the size of the cups.

Preparing an espresso

Each time you plug your machine in, it will carry out an initialisation cycle.
Press the button . The light will flash during the pre-heating and initialisation cycle.
The light will stay on.
Put a cup under the coffee outlets - Fig. 14. You can lower or raise the coffee outlets to suit the size of your cups.
Select the key to get a strong espresso or the
You can change the volume of water at any time - Fig. 16.
To stop coffee flowing into the cup, you can either again press one of the
position.

Preparing a cup of coffee

The ground coffee is moistened with a little hot water after the grinding stage. A few moments later, percolation as
such starts. Beyond a certain amount of coffee in the cup, we recommend - in order to obtain a stronger
coffee - to divide your preparation into two separate cycles. Example 2 x 70ml cycles for a cup of 140 ml.
DO NOT REMOVE THE WATER COMPARTMENT BEFORE THE END OF THE CYCLE (that is around 15 seconds
after the coffee has finished dripping through).

2-cup function

You can use your appliance to make 2 cups of coffee or espresso. Remember not to remove the cups after the first cycle.
You have now prepared your appliance. The
Put two cups under the coffee outlets - Fig. 17. You can lower or raise the coffee outlets to suit the size of your cups.
Select the key or
with a double flash to confirm that you have ordered 2 cups of coffee.
The appliance will automatically sequence 2 complete coffee-making cycles.
If you first press the
Steam froths up the milk to make a cappuccino or a caffe latte, for example, and also heats up liquids. As you need a
higher temperature to produce steam than to make an espresso, the appliance runs an additional pre-heating phase for
steam.
key - Fig. 18.
Press the
The light will flash while the appliance heats up.
Once pre-heating has been completed, the
again pressing the
Press the button again to stop the cycle
BE CAREFUL, BECAUSE THE CYCLE DOES NOT STOP IMMEDIATELY.
light will stay on.
key according to your choice, pressing twice rapidly in succession. The
key and then the (or vice versa), the second action will not be taken into account.

PREPARING STEAM

light will remain on continuously and you can start producing steam by
key.
key to get a standard espresso - Fig. 15.
or keys or turn the knob to the min.
light will come on
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