The universal descaler "For Better Coffee". Made of natural, high-quality ingredients, this descaler efficiently removes limescale and ensures smooth operation of your coffee machine. It obviously comes at a price but you are paying for quality. The functionality of this machine is great, there are no faults with the design and to top it off, the flavour of coffee it produces is sublime. If you ever needed reassurance that this machine is value for money, then here it is. So the main difference between the Autentica and the Magnifica models is the Autentica comes with more features and functionality. When half of the cup is filled with water, turn the machine off and give some time for the cleaning tablet to do its magic.

If your coffee machine is equipped with an integrated milk system cleaning program, simply follow the required procedure. If there's no integrated milk system cleaning program in your appliance, see the following instructions.Before using the machine, make two cups of coffee. Choose the preparation method from pre-ground beans, but don’t use the actual pre-ground coffee. They tend to be manual and without digital displays. You basically turn a dial to set the amount of coffee you want to be delivered and another one for the amount of coffee to be used to determine how strong or weak your coffee will be.

This style of machine offers fantastic versatility, at a level you might not expect from a largely accessible bean-to-cup model. For example, there’s a hot water button whose icon is even – gasp – a cup of tea. It’s also useful for turning espressos into Americanos. The standalone steam spout is perfect for preparing hot chocolate too. Completely empty the water tank and remove the water softener filter (if present). Also empty the drip tray and coffee grounds drawer and reposition them. The De’Longhi Autentica Plus doesn’t offer a thousand presets, instead offering essentially an espresso and ‘long’ coffee, which can then be tweaked in terms of strength and size. And temperature if you dive into the machine’s system properly. This is only necessary if you’re going to add cold milk to your coffee, though. There’s also a custom My Coffee preset. You are now in a position to make a more informed decision about whether you a Magnifica, Autentica or Dinamica is best suited to your needs.This coffee machine is quite large in comparison to the cheaper, less advanced coffee machines that can be used for pod coffee. The size of this machine is (W x D x H): 195 x 340 x 477. Colours The universal milk system cleaner "For Better Coffee". Made of natural ingredients of the highest quality, this cleaner ensures ideal hygiene inside the milk system: it gets rid of any accumulated bacteria, milk fats and milk residue. The machine is easy to use thanks to an intuitive control panel with a two-line text display. The touch-sensitive control panel is soft, making it extremely pleasant to the touch. There are reasons why hardline coffee snobs might consider this a somewhat ‘basic’ model. However, as a lifestyle machine that gets you coffee shop-grade drinks with none of the fiddle and little of the clean-up, it’s perfect. It’s going to be made more of plastic than it is metal and will be a square box shape as opposed to tall and elegant.

Perhaps the most notable element of the De’Longhi Autentica Plus is its shape. This is a slimline machine, one that doesn’t command too much space on your work surface. It’s something we’re very grateful of in the somewhat-dinky kitchen we use to test these machines. Milk carafes sound excellent and they certainly serve a purpose if you are in a rush and you don’t want to get involved in any part of your coffee preparation but it is worth bearing in mind that it does take away some of the personalisation you get if you heat the milk yourself in a jug with the steam nozzle.To conclude this Delonghi Autentica review, this coffee machine is hands down one of the best we’ve ever seen. It is immaculate in its delivery of premium coffee. It is aesthetically pleasing on the eye, it has many different functions, it can produce more than one coffee at a time, two in fact. Here is a little secret straight off the bat, the brewing process that gets used for all Delonghi bean to cup coffee machines is almost identical so the quality of coffee that ends up in your cup is going to be the same regardless of how much money you spend.

It delivers the same quality of coffee as some of Delonghi’s other machines but is a lot cheaper because it doesn’t come in a fancy design and it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of some of the more expensive ones. Dilute the descaler using the following ratio: 100 ml of the descaler:1 l of water (if the user manual of your coffee machine indicates that 500 ml of water should be used for the descaling procedure, cut the quantity of the descaler in half too and use 50 ml);The De’Longhi Autentica Plus is a mid-range bean-to-cup machine. It offers plenty of features and lots of customisation without getting all of the high-end innards we saw recently in machines like the Sage by Heston Oracle: things like a dual-boiler system. A fully-loaded bean-to-cup machine that tries its best to be compact is always going to have some compromises: this is one of the main ones, and there aren’t many others. Why are there so many and why are the large differences in price from one model to the other justified? Coffee machine with a milk container: pour the mixture into the milk container and activate the hot steam/milk function. Repeat the procedure using clean water. You can pay as little as a few hundred pounds for a Delonghi bean to cup coffee machine and you can pay over two thousand pounds if you really want to.