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What is the orange and clear plastic part used for . Can’t read the writing.

That is for “needle maintenance”. Basically, you do the following to clean the needle:

  1. power off the machine;
  2. fill the clear white part with water;
  3. open the handle and insert the cleaning unit into the K-Cup receptacle area (note the arrows should point down);
  4. slowly close and open the handle 5 times to clean the needle. Note, if the handle won’t close, don’t force it - you probably haven’t inserted the cleaning unit properly.