Funny and sad, I've had mine for 5 years and a couple of weeks ago it started to spit a little water when steaming. I cleaned the autofill probe twice, cleaned the intake solenoid and still having the issues. I will probably need to replace the intake solenoid as I believe it does not close properly. If leave the machine

Just a quick update in case someone else has a similar issue: I realised that I have become very lazy over the years and the machine was long overdue for a descale (I hate doing it as it takes so long to flush and water leaks everywhere when overflowing the boiler). So I've just completed a descale which has made

I am going by the fact that I had seen in many places that anything beyond 90C for a dark roast was effectively burning the coffee and to stay between 80 and 85 ideally