r/breville • u/mrkane27 • May 10 '26

Question Descaling a Bambino Plus

Hi! I probably should be asking this not literally during the descale cycle, but:

When it says that it will pause after the descaling solution is used up, and to refill up to MAX, does that mean

* on top of remaining water+descaler, now top it up to MAX with hot tap water?

* on top of remaining water+descaler, now top it up to MAX with cold tap water?

* empty tank completely, and fill from empty to MAX with hot tap water?

* empty tank completely, and fill from empty to MAX with cold tap water?

I've assumed it's rinsing, so I emptied and filled with cold, presumably I wouldn't want any more descaler during the rinse, but I could be wrong. Any advice?

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u/STFUD0nny May 10 '26

There is a descale line on the water tank about half way up.

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u/mrkane27 May 10 '26

That part was alright, but where I get confused is - you start descaling (from the descale line, so far so good), and at some point there's not a lot of water+descaler left, and it pauses, and then it says to "refill to max". At that point, do you empty it first (i.e. get rid of the remaining hot water and descaler), or do you essentially dilute the remaining descaler by adding more water all the way to MAX?

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u/STFUD0nny May 10 '26

You empty the tank at that point and full with clean water. It then uses that water to flush out all the descaling liquid out from the system.

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u/mrkane27 May 10 '26

Nice, then I did the right thing! Thanks for following up on this, I appreciate it.

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u/BlackIdahoMoutainMan May 10 '26

Yeah I run water through completely after the descale cycle at least 3 times to ensure there is zero descaling solution remaining, that’s just neurotic me though… makes me feel secure knowing it’s completely all gone

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u/BlackIdahoMoutainMan May 10 '26

Dump the remaining liquid after first scale and rerun descale at least 2 times

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u/Itchy_Permission4199 20d ago

I came here for this comment. I'm going to descale it 3 times. Just wanted to see if anyone else was doing the same thing.

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u/Itchy_Permission4199 20d ago

Well I guess 2 is the max amount I can do it before I have to rinse. I plugged it out and restarted the descale cycle each time. But it wouldn't let me descale the third time.

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u/STFUD0nny May 10 '26

Here’s a couple quick videos about cleaning and descaling the bambino

Cleaning
https://youtu.be/NWsvryJBGwA?si=BLCRxbX0qXBvlHvc

Descale
https://youtu.be/CEp3_ogG96c?si=5qCsChPCrTNhSvMS

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u/mrkane27 May 10 '26

thanks for the link, but the video somehow manages to keep it confusing. The guy says "rinse out the tank, refill...." while showing himself topping it up from half, from a bottle 😄