Sage (Breville) Barista Express Impress - How to run a cleaning cycle (backflushing).

This is my seventh video in my series on the new Barista Express Impress from Sage/Breville, and in this one I'm demonstrating backflushing, what they refer to as a cleaning cycle.

As I mention in the video, you'll be prompted to do this when the clean/descale exclamation light is flashing, if that light is solid this indicates a descale is required. Descaling video coming soon, in the meantime:

To descale your Barista express impress:

Remove the water filter from the water tank if there is one installed.

Dissolve the sachet of cleaning solution in 1L of water, you can either do this directly in the water tank or do it in a separate container and then pour into the tank, and put the tank back in place.

Place as big a container as you can fit, onto the drip tray ensuring the steam wand is also positioned over this. Ideally, this should be at least one litre in capacity, if not it's not a big deal you'll just swap it over during the process of descaling the steam wand and hot water spout. You'll use 2L of water in the rinse phase but it's no problem to empty the container half way through.

Turn the machine off, press and hold the three buttons together (both shot buttons and the power button) for about 5 seconds, and once the machine as heated up it will illuminate the power button, double shot button, clean/descale light and hot water/steam light.

With the water tank in place, containing the 1 litre of water with descale solution dissolved, press the double shot button to start the process.

The group will be descaled first, this will take about 25 seconds, and there's a beep to let you know this has finished, at this point turn the steam/water dial towards the front of the machine, towards the steam icon. The steam wand will be descaled (about 13 seconds) and then will just stop, there's no beep.

When it stops, simply turn the steam/water dial towards the back of the machine, towards the water icon, and the hot water path and spout will be descaled, this takes about 8 seconds.

At this point just press the 2 cup button again to start the process again starting with the group, and just keep repeating this process until you run out of water.

At this point, fill the water tank to the max, and repeat this process again with clean water to rinse, until the entire tank is emptied.

Press the power button to quit the descale process.

Done.

By the way, if you're in the UK or Europe (including Ireland, Germany, France, and most other countries in mainland Europe) see: https://coffeeblog.co.uk/sage-applian...


Product links:

Barista Express Impress from Sage Appliances: https://breville.oie8.net/NKxb5N

Barista Express Impress from Breville AUS: https://breville.oie8.net/MXq7OP

Barista Express Impress from Sage Europe:https://breville.oie8.net/0JNPkM

Barista Express Impress from Breville NZ: https://breville.oie8.net/mgKYMD

Barista Express Impress from Breville USA: https://breville.oie8.net/n1Y6no

Sage Express Impress from John Lewis: https://john-lewis-and-partners.pxf.i...

Descaler pack of 4 from Sage Appliances: https://breville.oie8.net/BXgLmW

Descaler from John Lewis: https://john-lewis-and-partners.pxf.i...

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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:37 Demo
8:35 Outro
8:56 Completely useless info
9:16 Tatty Bye

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