Nespresso Coffee not hot enough? | (Here’s What to Do!)

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As a coffee lover, one can’t deny the importance of temperature when it comes to point of enjoying your favorite brew. It’s quite frustrating when your brew you’re favorite Joe and after taking one sip, you have discovered that your coffee is not hot enough.

If this issue also occurs with your Nespresso machine and you are worried about how to turn up the temperature on the Nespresso machine. Then, fortunately, you are in right place!

I have written my proven tricks in this article guide that definitely helps to get back to the coffee temperature that you’re used to getting from your Nespresso machine. Keep reading to learn how!

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What’s the temperature inside the Nespresso machine?

Unfortunately, you can’t change the heating water temperature in most of the Nespresso machines.

Basically, Nespresso machines are designed not only by keeping user convenience in mind but also to provide the best brewing technology to its customers.

That means the machine temperature setting is calibrated in such a way as to brew coffee at the right temperature to extract maximum flavors from coffee capsules

The brewing temperature inside a Nespresso machine is around 83-86° for Original line machines and 78° ± 5° for Vertuo line machines.

Well! the ideal temperature for brewing coffee according to the national coffee association is 90 to 95 degrees Celcius.

We see that the temperature of Nespresso machines used for brewing is not hot enough. Well, there might be a technical cause behind this and the temperature of 85 degrees celsius might work best with Nespresso machines.

Personally, I feel that not being able to change the temperature setting on Nespresso should be taken into consideration and there should be a solution for this because many coffee lovers like me like to drink hotter drinks than the Nespresso machine can give us.

Actually, in some high-end Nespresso machines, there is an option for adjusting the water temperature.

However, Nespresso coffee is meant to be drunk immediately after brewing, which might be the reason behind the lower temperature of the Nespresso machine.

Remember, Nespresso machines produce coffee at a lower temperature than a drip coffee maker, therefore coffee will not be as hot as you get from the traditional coffee maker.

Also Read: Espresso machines vs Nespresso

3 Tricks to turn up temperature on nespresso machine

Below are my personally attempted experimental tricks that surely help you to get your coffee cup at your desired temperature.

Preheat the machine

You can increase the temperature of your coffee by simply preheating the Nespresso machine before brewing.

Preheating the Nespresso original line and Nespresso vertuo line machines are given below.

Heating the Nespresso Original line machineHeating the Nespresso vertuo line machine
Fill the water tank with water.
Run a brew cycle without inserting the coffee pod inside the machine.
Or if your machine has a hot water button press it.		Run the cleaning cycle for about 20 seconds.
Or clean a used capsule (Don’t remove the lid). Put it in the machine and hit the button.

With original line machines, the preheating procedure is very straightforward as you can easily run a brew cycle without inserting the pod. On the other hand, Vertuoline machines don’t work until you insert the pod inside them. So you have to apply some tricks to preheat them as mentioned in the above table.

Preheat your cup

Another trick to keep your coffee hotter for a relatively long period of time is to preheat your cup.

There are many ways to do that. You can fill your coffee cup with water and heat it in the microwave for a few minutes before making coffee.

Or if you are already applying the above trick of preheating the machine just place your coffee cup underneath the dispenser for the preheating cycle.

Heat the milk

It is a good practice to use very hot milk when preparing milk-based espresso drinks, as these drinks contain almost 50% milk.

If you have a Nespresso milk with milk frother you can easily heat and foam the milk with a press of one button. Otherwise, you can use a separate Aeroccino milk frother from Nespresso to steam and foam the milk. Or you can simply heat the milk on the stovetop or microwave (Just make sure the milk is very hot).

What to do if the temperature of your nespresso machine is declining with time

You can make the following adjustments to keep your Nespresso machine at the right temperature.

Descale your Nespresso machine

It is important to regularly descale Nespresso machines, so the water remains at the right temperature.

If you haven’t cleaned your Nespresso machine in a while, limescale buildup inside can affect your coffee’s taste and reduce the temperature efficiency of machine.

For descaling, you need a descaling kit. Put the machine in descale mode and follow the instruction I have written in my article on descaling Nespresso Vertuo.

Adjusting your machine pressure.

In some cases, the pressure inside the machine drops over time, causing the temperature inside the machine to drop.

To readjust the pressure of the machine, Make 5 lungo cups without inserting the pod inside the machine.

Note: This tip is for original line machines only

Reset the machine

There might be some technical fault in the machine if your machine is continuously brewing coffee at a low temperature.

In that case, resetting the machine might help.

For complete guidance, follow my article on resetting the machine to the default factory setting.

Final thought

So, technically you cannot adjust machine temperature manually to make hotter coffee. You can definitely increase the hotness of your Nespresso coffee by following the above-mentioned tricks.

If you are continuously facing the issue of Nespresso coffee not being hot enough then you must descale the machine immediately.

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