I keep reading in reviews etc about Rancilio Silvia, that because it is not auto filling one has to fill the boiler every time when switching on, otherwise risk burning out the element. I cant understand where the boiler water goes. Surely as one makes coffee the boiler is sucking more water in. The same when steaming. Obviously if the reservoir was let run dry it would require priming. So, theoretically the boiler should always be full. OR when it is switched off does the boiler mysteriously drain back into the reservoir? Maybe I should stick to brewing tea.
I asked my son, "Do you prime the boiler everytime you switch on Silvia, because I read . . . (this that or the other re priming)?"
He answered " Ive never done anything like that, what for!"
His machine has been going everyday for 18 mths and no boiler probs, yet!
I asked my son, "Do you prime the boiler everytime you switch on Silvia, because I read . . . (this that or the other re priming)?"
He answered " Ive never done anything like that, what for!"
His machine has been going everyday for 18 mths and no boiler probs, yet!

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