Urnex Espresso Machine Cleaning Powder - 566 grams - Cafiza Professional Espresso Machine Cleaner

This is a good quality espresso machine cleaner. 556 grams is about 20 ounces. This is a very important step in ending yoru day as a barista. This product goes into the head, but it works in the valves as well. Use this in place of coffee and run your machine. It's super concentrated and the hot water cleans out your machine very well. Your daily end of day back flush needs this. Read more

Great size if you regularly have a need to clean a home espresso or coffee station. Following the directions is easy and the resulting cleaning effectiveness is exactly what you would want. This is a well known and quality product that has been used for decades and will remain the go-to for many professionals and home enthusiasts. Good value and easy to store in a cabinet. No bad smells or any lingering residues. Read more

Seems to clean very well—really gets the portafilter shiny and silvery again! The only criticism is the instructions are a bit vague( in images ) so if you’re unsure, just AI or Google the instructions. It’s a very strong acid though so I wouldn’t leave your hands in the cleaning solution for very long. I tend to hand wash most things and yeah I get dry hands as a result but with this cleaner on my hands, even diluted with water, my hands get noticeably dry! So use gloves. This bottle will last you a long time as you only use a few grams per cleaning cycle. Read more

Have a Ninja Deluxe series. Cleans my Porta filter extremely well. Read more

Really worked great. A little goes a long way too. Coffee stains GONE!!! Read more

Works well! Read more

Cleans well. No residue Read more

As far as coffee equipment goes, I have a very basic Starbucks Barista espresso machine. I soaked the espresso brewhead and my grounds spoon in a solution of water and this detergent and everything got incredibly clean (see one of my pics). As far as I understand it you're not supposed to run this stuff *through* a basic espresso machine like mine, so I use a separate descaler for that Cleancaf Cleaner for Home Coffee and Espresso Equipment, 3 Pack (0.33oz each) . I also inadvertently got a photo that illustrates just how powerful this stuff is: I noticed that my to go coffee cup looked a little stained on the bottom, so I filled the cup like 1/3 full with hot water and put a half teaspoon or so of this detergent in. I let it sit for a few minutes and rinsed it out. That's one of my pics -- to my surprise I didn't even realize that the entire inside of my cup had gotten stained! That's why you can see brilliant shiny metal at the bottom and now obviously stained nasty metal near the top. I repeated the process but filled the cup all the way to the top and voila, the cup looked brand new and my coffee tasted better after that. That's the last pic. I will now periodically clean my to go cups and thermoses with this detergent since it's so powerful. About "special glassware": I'm not going to upload any pics, but here in Colorado one might ingest a certain newly-legal substance through various glass (or other material) paraphernalia. That paraphernalia can get famously gunky and impossible to clean -- UNTIL NOW. Simply soak the paraphernalia in a solution of this product dissolved in hot water and wait 20 minutes or so. ALL of the gunk will just slide out from inside the device -- maybe with a tiny bit of jostling. But seriously, no scrubbing or pipe cleaners are necessary any more. One warning: I don't know if this product takes paint off of glass, so you might want to test it on something first. Of course, a high quality handblown glass device shouldn't have any paint on it, so you're probably good to go. Lastly you get a TON of this product for a reasonable price, so I'll be cleaning plenty of stuff and one container will last a long time I imagine. Read more