If your milk frothing doesn’t work right or you’re getting uneven espresso shots, it’s a good idea to take your De’Longhi La Specialista back to default settings. To do that, you need to know how to push a couple of button at once.
Performing The Factory Reset
It sounds complicated, but it isn’t. Simply use two fingers and push both buttons simultaneousy. If you try pushing just one button, nothing will happen. Both keys has to be pushed for it to go into reset mode.
First make sure your machine is on, with the display illuminated. On the left side of the panel you will find the Double Cup button. Next to that are the My Recipe button. Pressing both at once initiate the process.
They appear to be normal function keys, but they trigger a different mode when pressed together. At this point, no adjustments is made to temperature or grind settings because the goal is a complete reset.
Press the two buttons at the same time. Both of your fingers are now pushing firmly on the plastic caps. Neither has been released yet. If you release one button, it will ruin sequence.
Instead, you will need to wait a couple of seconds before the display begins to blink. When it does, it’s telling you that machine received your order. That’s how you know that the reset mode have kicked in.
The lights pulse, and you hold your hands still. Now the machine is responsive, and there’s a right way to go about things, no random button pushing here.
You let go of the Double Cup button, but then what? You don’t just stop. Push the My Recipe button next and wait for the light to come back on. This confirms you are good to continue. It does blink in response, a barely noticeable cue you’ll want to pay close attention to.
At this point, the machine awaits your final confirmation. You’ll find the power button on the far-left side of the panel. Keep in mind that this is not part of same group of buttons used to select beverages.
Tap it quickly (don’t hold it down), and the reset action is confirmed. Inside, the machine will process that command and lock in the changes.
The display goes back to normal without any blinking and no more flashing of error codes. All indicator lights return to their normal positions. The only remaining red light is the one by the Coffee/Espresso button indicating that the machine is still powered up.
Because the reset worked, the crazy doesn’t happen again. It didn’t say so on screen, but it would of completed its task.
Any saved user preferences, like your custom grind adjustments, and even any temporary glitches is cleared from the system. This is a hard reset. Factory default settings are restored and you have a clean slate.
You look over at the pressure gauge in the middle of the machine (it reads zero as it should). The machine’s idle and ready to be used, though you’ll let it sit for a moment so that everything settles down before you brew.
There’s nothing weird about it: you don’t see any weird lights, no odd noises. The entire procedure takes less than a minute in total. There’s no need for disassembly, no tools… Just buttons and timing.
Sometimes machines gets stuck in a loop (software). A reset effectively clears the cache. It forces the system to reboot its logic board. Just like other appliances do when you hit them with the right combination of keys.
After this process, your De’Longhi La Specialista feels like new again. All of the electronic bits is new. It’s just as responsive as it was out of the box. All of your old grind size preferences are erased so you can adjust them back to how you’d like them.
It resets the system so you can go in and set your temperature preference again. A quick 30 second solution that provides a fresh start for daily use.