DeLonghi Dedica EC685M (Silver) Questions & Answers (page 2 of 2)

Its telling you to perform a de-scale . Watch the painfull youtube vid and follow allong ... the trick is you Must shut down correctly at the end of de-scale or will continue to display the stupid little light

Sorry I'm not so sure. This may sound silly - but have you actually unplugged and turned it on/off again? That might help.
Otherwise go through the whole setup process again? Hope that helps.

Thank you. In fact I repeated the whole process once again and this time it worked. What I still don't understand though is that the machine needed a descaling after hardly some months since I bought it and although I use soft water.

Try setting the water quality setting on your Dedica to Soft. (see instructions) Hopefully that will mean it will ask you to descale less often?

I have the same issue. Did you get an answer to this?

That seems normal. Pumping in a small unit sounds like it's thumping, but all good.

The pumping noise of my steamer in forthing milk mode is also noisy. Like hell. And doesnt make any foam.
Just blowing my ears and worming the milk.
There is an answer for it?

Thats because the temperature of the themoblock is at the temperature required to make steam and is too hot to brew. To cool down the temp, turn the knob on the right to the steam position and it will expel steam for some time and once it starts expelling water, turn the knob off. Now the sing and double cup lights will stop flashing and the machine is ready to brew espresso

Yikes!! Use the steamer to heat milk. I'd be running soap and water through the system about 10 times and clean water 20 times if I had milk through it.

It takes the ESE (Easy Serving Espresso) pods. Not be confused with the various plastic capsules such as Nespresso.
DeLonghi have a range of ESE pods but you can use any brand as they are all standard fit.

I tried the pods and they were awful. If you like weak tasteless coffee then pods would be ok. Really it's a ground coffee maker, that's what it's best at. With ground coffee I cannot fault it. I'm on my second machine. Best machine I've owned.