

With the water level dipping, you will have easy access to remove and refill extremely easily without the need to push aside any silicone tubing. The reservoir is accessed from underneath the cup warmer on the top of the machine towards the back. It’s a large over two-liter bottom-fed reservoir. The Rocket Appartamento is a tank only, sometimes called a reservoir, home espresso machine. You can easily feather the steam off a bit with the steam knob to give yourself a bit more time to make that perfect micro foam! Water Tank With a 1.8 liter boiler, there is plenty of steam power to go around. What about the steam power though? The steam wand will have you asking it to go maybe a little slower at first! If this is your first prosumer home espresso machine, you might need a little bit more time and less power. The steam and hot water wands are fully articulating to make steaming incredibly easy.

The Rocket Appartamento espresso machine is a surprisingly powerful latte and cappuccino machine! As we said, don’t be fooled by the small corpus. Stainless steel hot water and steam wands come with teflon tubing inside which replaces the previously used silicone (effective 2020) Steaming Milk It’s not only great looking but it also helps you monitor machine vitals in a really convenient spot on the front of the machine. Right underneath the brew lever, there is a black boiler pressure gauge that jumps off the front of the machine. To add control of pre-infusion and flow you might consider installing an E61 flow control device. This is a mechanical pre-infusion and should not be confused with other more controllable methods of achieving pre-infusion. With any E61 brew head, you’ll get pre-infusion of water that helps settle the grounds within the bed of coffee. It’s easy to repair, the parts are readily available, and repairs are generally cheap. There is a reason why so many manufacturers utilize this tried and tested group head.

The professional-grade E61 group head is one of the most popular group configurations on the market. While it might be that to some regard - it packs all of the power that you’d expect out of a quality Italian made home espresso machine. It does this with large circular feet that give the Appartamento a real presence on your counter without taking up the whole thing!ĭon’t let its apt name fool you into thinking that the Appartamento is a great small start machine. In addition to the unique side panels and stainless steel casing, the Rocket Appartamento saves on height. The stainless steel casing with perforations that reveal either copper or white side panels beneath adds an interesting visual element to the Rocket Espresso Appartamento that no other home espresso machine has! Today, Bertha runs on just 40% of her original fuel consumption - a beautiful and efficient machine.Rocket Espresso is well known for its attractive home espresso machines where no detail is left untouched. Over four years we rebuilt this machine, retro-fitting an afterburner to eliminate VOCs from it's emissions and drastically improving fuel efficiency. When we found Bertha, she was completely decommissioned, a pile of parts destined for scrap. A 120kg Probat roaster rescued from Bosnia in 2012. We've been working with La Marianela for over 10 years! The farm's optimum altitude and reliable rainfall produces juicy coffee cherries and unbeatable flavour. The second coffee, the Colombian Marianela, hails from an estate owned by agronomist Hernan Dorronsoro and one of Extract's longest standing partnerships. We started working with this cooperative in 2015 and have seen coffee quality improve year on year. The first coffee is from the mountains of northern Peru, farmed by a group of smallholders working together in an organic cooperative, Sol y Cafe. We have direct relationships with these coffee farmers and are working together to positively impact their communities. Rocket Espresso roast is made from two direct-impact ethical coffees. With a heavy body, sweetness, bold mouthfeel and subtle fruit flavour Rocket is ethically sourced, perfectly crafted and out of this world. Rocket Espresso is one of our longest-standing coffees, loved in cafes up and down the UK.
