Re: Liquid Descaler

I buy Citric Acid for about $1/pound at the local wine and beer making
supply house.  I was in a local market on Wednesday and saw that it was
sold there in smaller quantities.  Seems to me that I've been seeing it
available in more and more places.  Someone said he/she had seen it
available at Whole Foods, but I don't know about that sighting.

Dilute it about 2 Tbs/Quart.  Works just fine.

Susan

Cyclepete wrote:
> On May 16, 3:40 am, lockjaw <davebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> who knows?  what is your water like?
>>
>> cleancaf, not the texdrekharmon -- and his pals --  citric acid thing.
>
> What's an inexpensive, readily available source  of easy to use citric
> acid? I have to descale about every three months and have been buying
> citric acid marketed for espresso machine descaling. It's insanely
> expensive - 3 packets run nearly $6.
>
> BTW - if you DO have scale build up and wait too long to descale
> ( such as waiting until you are getting reduced flow) it may be too
> late to easily descale. The descaler can actually cause chunks of
> scale to break loose and completely jam the feed to the portafilter.
> I've had this happen twice. It's a real pain to knock the chunks of
> scale loose - last time I had to resort to literal knocking. If it
> gets too bad you have to take the machine apart. So each time I
> resolve to descale mor often and then forget until I have symptoms.
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