My Delonghi ESAM6700 will make 2 cups of standard coffee ok ,but then on the next cups there is a lot of steam but it will not draw up enough milk to full cup of coffee . Why is this so ?

SOURCE: More Steam Less Coffee

I had same problem after 4 months. very slow brew time, 10 cups of water poured in made about 6 cups of coffee. I used a packaged coffee pot cleaner powder and this fixed the problem (for now).

SOURCE: coffee out not same as amount of water in/no steam

you have to descalcify the machine not with vinegar .vinegar removr calcium in little pieces and might block the machine descalcifier melt the calcium on the heating element you have lots of calcium that mean less heat you use 1 part descaler 1 part water put in water containerstart the machine for a few second turn off for 10 minute if you never descaled the machine leave it for 15 minute and repeat untill empty rince very good a few water container that stuff is very corosif after a good rinse try the coffee it should be good thank you for using fixya pierre

SOURCE: I have just bought a Delonghi 680M. When I press

The coffee machine has standard settings for each program. What you seem to feel is not enough is the standard setting for Latte. You can always set it to your desirable quantity, either for milk or for coffee.

Refer to your users' manual for more :)

espressonist

• 1711 Answers
• Posted on Dec 23, 2010

SOURCE: There used to be enough

This a
clear problem from scale builds up in the boiler. The scale layer is acting as
an insulation layer which is reducing the efficiency of the heating element to
the boiler and also reducing the water capacity thus also the steam production
capacity.

So you
should first try to de-scale your machine three four times with intervals of
three days from each de-scale. Try also to perform the de-scale very slowly
like when you will flash the water solution from the water reservoir take about
30 minutes why drawing a coffee cup every five minutes. With this way you have
very good chance to remove a lot of scale and you machine heating efficiency to
be increased. If after the above procedure you have no difference then you need
a new boiler which is one unit with elements and sensor.

Here below we
have a link with more information for your machine which can help you.


http://www.partsguru.com/SaecoMagicDeluxeSuperautomatica.html

SOURCE: How much coffee to add

Hi,
I like my coffee pretty strong and I use 2/3 cup coffee to 10 cups of water...
You may be able to use 1/2 cup to 10 cups if you don't want it too strong...
You must experiment a bit as different coffees will vary also...

heatman101