If it heats water, it creates scale. Call it calcification, lime scale…whatever you want but for home espresso and coffee makers it’s the stuff that clogs-up boilers and leads to poor performance and eventual machine failure. But, it’s super easy to prevent any problems with a little preventative maintenance. Like changing the oil in your car, a regular descaling or decalcifying ensures a long service life for your machine.
What is “Scale”?
The build-up of minerals inside the hot parts of your coffee machine or espresso machine is commonly called lime scale. This term is derived from hard water areas in some parts of the world that have a high lime content in their water. In fact any mineral that comes out […]
