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title: "Coffee machine signal Please Milk Clean"
description: "Coffee machine signal Please Milk Clean: dacor coffee machine — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code."
url: "https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/coffee-please-milk-clean/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Appliance type: "coffee-machine"
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# Coffee machine signal Please Milk Clean

### What the appliance is actually reporting

Not a problem at all, and the manual is explicit that it appears on a timer rather than in response to a problem. It matters more than most maintenance prompts because milk residue in a warm line is unpleasant chemistry, and a machine that has been ignoring this prompt for months will eventually need the milk path stripped rather than rinsed. Doing it when asked keeps that from ever being necessary.

### Where this appears, and which table it belongs to

On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all.

### Which machines this one applies to

CM24P and CM24T built-in coffee systems. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.

### What to do about it

- Run the machine’s own milk cleaning cycle — it takes a few minutes.
- Use the cleaning agent the manual specifies rather than a general detergent.
- If the prompt returns immediately after a completed cycle, the sensing needs attention.
- A machine that has ignored this for a long period may need the milk path serviced properly.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [coffee system brew group service](/services/coffee-system-brew-group-service/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

CM24P and CM24T built-in coffee systems

What the lights are telling you

What the appliance is actually reporting

Not a problem at all, and the manual is explicit that it appears on a timer rather than in response to a problem. It matters more than most maintenance prompts because milk residue in a warm line is unpleasant chemistry, and a machine that has been ignoring this prompt for months will eventually need the milk path stripped rather than rinsed. Doing it when asked keeps that from ever being necessary.

Where this appears, and which table it belongs to

On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all.

Which machines this one applies to

CM24P and CM24T built-in coffee systems. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.

What to do about it

Run the machine’s own milk cleaning cycle — it takes a few minutes.

Use the cleaning agent the manual specifies rather than a general detergent.

If the prompt returns immediately after a completed cycle, the sensing needs attention.

A machine that has ignored this for a long period may need the milk path serviced properly.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is coffee system brew group service, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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