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  • Breville Oracle is Making Flat Milk

    So you’ve gone to make a coffee on your and your Breville Oracle is making flat milk. It heats up, but it’s probably making an awful high pitched screaming, and it’s flat. Coffee with flat milk just doesn’t have the mouth feel, and just feels wrong! I’ll start by pointing out that this is mainly…

  • Breville Coffee Machine Stopping At 5 seconds

    There’s nothing worse than having a Breville Coffee Machine Stopping At 5 seconds. So you most likely have the Breville Barista Pro (BES878), or the Breville Barista Touch (BES880), and the water runs for 5 seconds and then stops. How frustrating! And you’ve read on the internet that it’s an air bubble or air lock…

  • You have a Breville going over temperature or activating by itself

    So you have a Breville Dual Boiler, or a Breville Oracle, and it’s gone over temperature. DISCONNECT IT FROM THE WALL. Yes it has to be yelled, because reading and doing this is potentially going to save you hundreds of dollars. Please do so now. This post is less of a “how to repair post”…

  • How to spot a failing pump on a Breville Dual Boiler or Breville Oracle

    This one has a low level of difficulty to spot, and is definitely something to fix straight away.  The best telltale sign of pump failure is a delay in engagement. This means that when you press a shot button, or engage the water tap, the pump doesn’t start straight away.  This however can be hard…

  • How To SAFELY descale your Breville Dual Boiler or Oracle

    How to Descale Breville Dual Boiler (BES920) or Breville Oracle (BES980, BES990) Following the descale isn’t a hard thing to do. Basically we’re draining the two boilers of water, refilling them with descale solution (breaks down mineral buildup in your machine), allow to sit in your boilers, draining again, and refilling with fresh water. You…

  • Basket Getting Stuck In Machine

    Basket Getting Stuck in Machine So this happens a lot on the Brevilles (Dual Boiler and Oracle, or the BES900/920/980/990) as Breville has opted for a plastic Inner Shower Screen. You go to make your coffee and once finished with the espresso, take out the portafilter but the entire basket gets stuck up in your…

  • How to Adjust Inner Burr

    **How to Fine-Tune Your Sage or Breville Espresso Machine for a Better Grind**  Want to elevate your home espresso game? Let’s talk about adjusting the inner burr to achieve a finer grind and improve your extraction.  This will be applicable to most Brevilles, and in my experience needs to be done on most machines within…