Ask Gail: Descaling The Breville Grind Control
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2016
- How do you descale the Breville Grind Control? Gail and Miranda are here to answer! We all know that descaling is essential to keeping certain machines working well, but did you know each brand has it's preferred method? Here is how Breville recommended you descale their Grind Control.
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Every time i need to descale, I come back to this video. Thanks for bailing me out each time ☮️
You are so welcome!
Yup. Second time, watching this.
Every time I descale mine I watch this video because I forget the steps😂😂😂 Thank you Descale Gail 👌
Thank you for making this quick simple no extra talking necessary video! Perfection!
Glad we could be of help!
If I could add one suggestion, it would be to use a total of 11 cups of vinegar / water instead of 12. My carafe overflowed during the descaling process, even though I stopped adding water as soon as the full "beep" occurred. Since some water is normally absorbed into the coffee grounds, it seems that the carafe does not hold the full capacity of the water tank.
Just did this and I agree with the comment
Why would your carafe have coffee grounds in it 🤔
Thank you for posting this video. It is so much easier to just follow this video than reading the manual( haven’t really attempted to read manual) 😂Thanks again!
great job on the video... I have been wondering how to descale my Breville for a while now... how simple :-)
Thank you so much for your simple conversation on descaling my Brevell coffee maker. It was a perfect explanation, you were quick, to the point and very much appreciated. I’m a big fan of the Brevell coffee maker!
Thank you. Perfect video instructions!
Thank you so much for your simple info.
I have the Bdc450. Does it ask for descalimg based on actual need being sensed by the machine or due to certain amount of time passing? I ask because I don’t use hard tap water in order to prevent the scale build up and was surprised by the message to rescale.
Thanks Gail/Miranda, descaling as we speak, didn't know about holding down the button to start the process, and then the pre-ground at the end 🙏❤☕
How do I get to the pre-ground setting?
Would you do the, same thing for the precision brewer as well
Ugh. Thank you! This was so helpful.
Thanks for this!
How do I get to the pre-ground setting?
I needed this
Thank you Gail!! Your video is simple and to the point.
Could I ask one more question about the Breville.... I always wondered this when it comes to grinding beans at a coffee shop or at home also. I've heard that beans should be kept in airtight containers for freshness. Is it common (out of convenience) to fill a hopper (like the Breville Grind Control's) totally full and keep the beans in there for days until they are gone, or better to fill close to the amount you will be using and then empty the rest into a container? If kept in the unit will the beans lose some flavor in just a few days? Thanks again and your channel is awesome!
+cpro48609 If you have a storage device like an Airscape it would probably be beneficial to store your beans in there and add the beans to the hopper as needed. Great thing about the Breville machines is the removable bean hoppers, so putting beans back in a storage device is very easy. That being said, you could get away with keeping the beans in the hopper for a few days with little change in flavor. Up to personal preference really! Cheers ;D
Crazy. I Google search decape breville coffee maker and this video with my exact model pops up. Thank you very much my friends.
*descale
Thanks, assuming best to empty the coffee reservoir first
Super awesome video it would be key to tell me to put the four cups of vinegar in before pushing the button cuz I followed the video as you were doing it then I had to scramble to do the stuff cuz literally you just said push the button awesome video though how you were straight to the point
Chris lajeunesse totally agree. It’s a descale video and they breeze by an important step. The focus of the video is pressing the button. lol. These videos should be thought out more.
How do you get rid of the descale message????????????
What can i do with code 001 , I tried all the recommendations process but still not succeed
mine did that- i believe it was too full.
Can you answer a question for me? Does the coffee maker use a sensor to detect if it needs descaling or does the alert come up after a certain number of cup/carafes are brewed? I ask because the water I use is highly filtered and I can't imagine that calcium deposits are still accumulating in my machine
The screen shows "DESC" when it needs descaling.
We had our Breville Grind Control Drip Coffee Maker machine for 4 years.
First 2 years, it was in a distant suburb where all tap water had a bit of a "chalky" taste, and we had to descale about once every 6 months.
Then we moved into the big city, with much better tap water, and the machine never asked us to descale it again.
So I guess it must have some kind of sensor.
@@patrickrannou1278 - Thanks! In the two years since I had posted this question, I had yet to have found an answer to it, even from Breville
I measured the amount of water going into the "12 cups" carafe: about 1.5 liters.
i.e. the "12 cups" are not true actual volumetric cups (250 ml each), and not even standard restaurants coffee serving size (236 ml). Far from it. A Breville Grind Control Drip Coffee Maker's "cup" is _only_ 125 ml. Think tiny fancy restaurant coffee cups here. Typically, you double the amount of REAL coffee cups you want to serve, and that is the amount of "cups" you set on the machine, and you get a bit extra left over. I have quite big coffee mugs, so they can take 250 ml easy, so they can fit even more than "2 Breville cups" (albeit just a tiny bit more... unless you want to fill the mug dangerously close to its rim lol!).
I agree to not use the full 12 cups limit: that limit assumes the presence of ground coffee in the filter, and that absorbs a lot of water. I'd stick to 1.25 liters total, not the full 1.5 liter. i.e. up to "10", not even "11".
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I watched your video but I also wonder...
When you say 4 cups of vinegar, you obviously talk about real cups, so 1 liter of vinegar, then "fil to the rim", thus another 5000 ml. Well, won't such a high ratio of vinegar to water (2 parts vinegar to 1 part water) eventually cause damage? The insides of the grind control when the water gets chanelled through, is not only metal. It contain plastic parts and especially "rubbery" pipes. Heck even metal can be "attacked" by a too high acidic concentration (like high-ratio vinegar). I know vinegar is very cheap but using a full liter of it seems like a waste, both economically and environmentally.
In our office we cleaned the machine like the below.
i.e. The "a bit lengthier but really cheap and as painless as possible"' approach:
- *DO NOT* use the carafe to mix or pour in the machine the vinegar / water mix into the machine. This is because any acidic liquid will always very slowly "attacks" most metals. Just use another container, like say for example a plain glass 1 liter Mason jar! Also, you make sure to premix well the descaling in that container, you *DO NOT* pour the water and then vinegar directly in the machine's water tank reservoir. No need to be super thorough: Just use a random kitchen tool + mixing with it a few times is quite sufficient.
- Make sure the vinegar used is plain white ordinary vinegar. Avoid at all costs any "special" vinegar (wine vinegar, rice vinegar, etc.). About 125 ml vinegar (half a cup) + 875 ml of water (3.5 cups) for a 1:7 ratio is ok. Need to be precise.
- Descale once. As soon as you hear the beep, don't let it sit for any extended time in the carafe, pour the very hot liquid descaling liquid that just went through the brewer and is now in the carafe, back into your mason jar. Now rinse the carafe once. If you need to touch the jar, put on kitchen gloves to avoid burns.
- Put back, but do not screw, the mason jar lid back on top of it, This will prevent the room from adopting a "vinegary" smell. Let the now very hot liquid in the mason jar sit a bit in the jar until it becomes merely warm.
- Descale a second time with the same now still warm liquid. Warning: It will come out even hotter.
- Empty the carafe, *NOT* in the drain, but outside, in places with zero good plants, but where you would like bad weeds to have a bit more trouble growing. Say, in the lines between flagstones. Vinegar is acidic and a natural desiccant, all plant life hates it. Or as insect control: many insects hate the smell, and it can even be detrimental to weak insects, especially ants, spiders, and mosquitos.
- Quickly rinse the carafe again.
- Rinse the mason jar very well. Refill with cold water.
- "Descale" with plain water at least 3 or 4 times, chancing to new fresh water each time. Often enough that the next batch of coffee will not taste like vinage not even a little.
- Throughly rinse the filter and basket.
-- Throw the mason jar at the head of that other employee which you find so incredibly annoying, thus getting fired from your job, and thus being able to start enjoying never having to clean the Breville again.
How do clean the carafe? I see some gunk when looking into it? Is there some tablet?
Bleach!
I do the same thing with a little bleach. Put a couple tablespoons of bleach and fill it with hot water and let it sit for about an hour. It works great.
Vinegar and water and salt swish it around
Not bleach. Please don't use bleach
You’ve made my life so much easier Gail
This may seem silly, but do you do this with the filter in?
Not important. If the filter mesh looks "descaling dirtiness worthy", sure, why not.
Otherwise don't put it in at all.
I look forward to these videos! Here is an unrelated question, but it's one I've been wondering about, and it's driving me nuts. Why do cheap steam espresso machines usually come with a carafe? Usually something like this i.ebayimg.com/images/g/CxsAAOSwhMpTz-bZ/s-l500.jpg Thanks!
I watch this video every time I need to scale! 🤣
i love you gail
I did it and it keeps showing me the same message “descale” 😢
Do you have the same model of coffee maker as the video? On my model, I have to press the "Single Cup" and "Carafe" buttons simultaneously to clear the "Descale" indicator
Thanks for helping out a manual dumper like myself. Cheers.
After descaling, I still have the "DESCALE" warning on the display; does that mean I have to do it again? (We have very hard water where I live)
Noel Dillabough you should only pour filtered water into the machine.
You have to press two buttons for the warning to disappear!
@@matthewdooley9860 what 2 buttons?
@@Samadhigame At the risk of sounding stupid, my parents force me to descale their machine but I never remember the process. What I have noticed is that I oftentimes confuse the purging the coffee machine of water stage with the much more involved descaling process. When you do not know the difference between the two, it is easy to confuse them. So if you tried to descale your machine but DES message is still on it, odds are you have only run the water purge function (which, basically is akin the brewing pre-ground coffee.) I hope the insight of an idiot helps but fear I fear it will not.
@@matthewdooley9860 it worked this time. Thanks
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DESCALE GAIL!!!
I own this coffee maker and drink enough coffee that I need to descale every 4 months or so. Despite all my viewings of this video, I have to look it up and watch Gail all over again - every. time. I hate Gale.
2024 help, thank you🎉
Ok! So this information is totally NOT CORRECT. I did this to my breville grind and brew and it messed it up and had to send in to get another one. DON'T DO THIS!!
Umm, need some explanation
Exactly, this is so so not true. I did that, and it messed it up. You have to buy a special cleaner for it. Don't do this!!
Why do you have the coffee maker in the video since you don't even touch it? Whay not just sit in your patio? It would at least be more scenic. I need to go elsewhere to find out how to properly extract the last few beans in my coffee maker without dumping the unit over. Since you don't touch the machine talking is pretty much worthless.
DESCALE GAIL!!!