Page 2 - Contents
Sunbeam’s Safety Precautions 2 About espresso coffee 3 Features of your Café Ristretto ™ 4 Operations guide for your Café Ristretto ™ 7 Secrets to the perfect cup 10 Easy steps for frothing milk 11 Before using your Café Ristretto ™ 12 Functions of your Café Ristretto ™ 13 Care and Cleaning 16 Desca...
Page 3 - Sunbeam’s Safety Precautions
2 Sunbeam are very safety conscious when designing and manufacturing consumer products,but it is essential that the product user alsoexercise care when using an electrical appliance.Listed below are precautions which are essentialfor the safe use of an electrical appliance: • Read carefully and save...
Page 4 - About espresso coffee
3 About espresso coffee The Sunbeam range of espresso machinesare sure to satisfy lovers of coffee. With itsItalian designed and made 15 BAR pump, a‘boiler’ heating system and Italian designed‘crema’ system the Sunbeam Café Ristretto ™ will provide endless cups of quality coffee. Coffee is an integr...
Page 11 - Secrets to the perfect cup
10 Operations Guide for your Café Ristretto ™ (continued) Secrets to the perfect cup With a Sunbeam pump espresso machineand a little experience, you can createcafé-quality coffee at home. Here are a fewhelpful suggestions: • A single shot of espresso should result in only 30-35mls of coffee. • The ...
Page 12 - Easy steps for frothing milk
11 Milk texturing is the steaming of milk to heatit and to create froth. Similar to making anespresso, perfecting the art of milk texturingtakes time and practice. • Attach the froth enhancing attachment to the end of the steam wand/arm on yourespresso machine. You can also choose tosteam the milk w...
Page 13 - Before using your Café Ristretto
Before using your Café Ristretto ™ for the first time or if you have not used it for some time,rinse the machine by running water throughwithout coffee in the filter handle, as follows: Note: Throughout these instructions thenumbers you see highlighted and in bracketsrefer back to the diagrams at th...
Page 14 - Functions of your Café Ristretto
13 1. ESPRESSO FUNCTION For best results, it is ideal to pre-heat yourcups, filter handle and filter as follows: • Insert the power cord into a 230-240V AC power outlet and turn the power on. • Fill the water reservoir (1) (2), (3) (4) (5) with cold water and start the appliance (6). • Put the filte...
Page 17 - Care and Cleaning
The coffee making process involves extractingoils out of coffee grinds to make espressocoffee. Deposits of these oils build up over timeand affect the taste of the coffee and operationof the espresso machine.Regular cleaning to remove these oils isessential for espresso machines to keepoperating eff...
Page 19 - Descaling
18 After continued use, your espresso machinemay develop a build-up of mineral deposits.Thus your machine will require occasional‘descaling’. We recommend that you descale your machineevery 2-3 months, although this period willdepend on the hardness of water and frequencyof use of the machine. Desca...
Page 21 - Trouble Shooting Guide
20 Trouble Shooting Guide Problem Possible cause What to do Coffee runs down the side of the Filter handle is not attached correctly, or See “Preparing an espresso” pg13. filter handle has not been tightened sufficiently. Edge of filter insert is not free of coffee Clean around the top edge of the f...
Page 23 - Recipes
22 ESPRESSO (SHORT BLACK) Espresso is a concentrated, full bodied coffeewith a stable layer of cream on top – knownas ‘crema’. An espresso is the foundation ofall café coffee. Variations are achieved byadding different amounts of milk and froth. • 90mL espresso glass or demitasse cup • single espres...
Page 25 - Notes