Hi. I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts, and today
We're looking at the Rocket Apartamento
the Rocket Apartamento.
So I was over in Milan at the Rocket factory with Andrew Meo
when he show me the final prototype to this machine.
And the first question I asked him was, why the circles?
And Andrew replied to me.
Because there's plenty of stainless boxes in the market.
We want things with a point of difference.
Now, this is coming from the Rocket Giotto, which had the iconic shape,
and they wanted to bring an Apartamento in basically to be smaller, to fit apartments
Hence the name Apartamento
and also to bring it down in price point.
The Rocket
and the Mozzafiato had climbed in price point in terms of materials finishes
PID, dual gauges, etc.
and that scope creep had moved up.
And so I had the price
so it came the Apartamento.
It was meant to be a coffee machine
affordable and beautiful and unique.
Hence the timeless design of no digital displays.
And the circles to make a difference.
Now, the first version was this one, which came in the stainless
finish with the copper or white circles.
And later on came the linea Nera, which is a black version.
So the body was black and the circle was still white or copper.
And it did have some other little features
which we'll show you later in this video.
Now, looking at this machine, what is it?
It's a heat exchange, vibrating pump, Rocket
base machine using a E61 group head.
So it being heat exchange and having a E61 group Head.
And there is commentary
that you sometimes have to flush it because the head does get hot.
And that's true.
So what are decided
was actually to take this machine home and I had it at home for the last month
just because I was so used to now machines that had it
all sorted and there were three times four times the price of this.
Now, I wanted to see what this machine was like to live with.
And although this machine was a step back from what I've had recently,
it was a pleasure to have so when it comes to coffee,
you've got the E61 group head, which is just over four kilos of brass,
which keeps the temperature stable and you've got the thermal siphoning.
So you've got the water in the heat change and it cycles through
the head to keep that head preheated and you got the pre fusion
that's mechanical as you lift this lever what it does
is it opens the piston inside, letting the water to flow through now
because that water is not the machine is not plunbed in,
this is a tank machine it is basically the pressure in the boiler
as a boiler
is at about one and a bit bar of pressure that water's going to come out.
It's not going to be the three bar pre infusion of this.
plunbed in in from the main line, but it does offer a sense of pre-infusion
And then the full pressure you're running the pressure from the vibrating
pump, the tank being two and a half liters is a decent size for a small machine.
And the light here does flash when it's showing you a low level of water,
it does mean if you are through a shot, you can affect the shot
but generally speaking, you know, you've run low
and you can easily refill it because it runs such low feet.
They've actually brought the height of the machine slightly down
so in apartment living where you generally have a cupboard above,
you still got enough room
to pour in water in the tank without having to feel too much.
And when it comes to the drip tray,
the drip tray, for a small machine is a decent size.
If we were to pull it out, you can see that
drip tray is relatively large
so with this version of the machine, it doesn't actually have any magnets here.
So when you push the drip tray back in, you just have to push it in to place.
But on the linea Nera they've added two little magnets.
So when you push it, it pops back into place.
When it comes the steam, it's using a 1.8 liter copper boiler.
So you do have a fair amount of steam to do your milk base straight
and being a heat
exchange machine, you can run your espresso and your steam at the same time.
But to find that in the home environment at this level,
most people will still do their coffee first and steam second
before we make some coffee on this machine,
which is going to bring out the linea Nera to show you
the differences between the standard and then the Nero edition
and then we'll jump back in and make some coffees.
So with the linea Nera the main differences are the rubberized black body.
So the camera may not be picking this up.
There is a really nice textured finish.
You've also got the stainless steel in black cup rail
compared to the normal machine which has got a plastic cup rail.
And when it comes to the drip tray, it's got the two little magnets.
When you bring in a drip tray, it just closes off really nicely.
And the last little feature is it's got the ECO mode, so it's got a button
just hidden under this side where if you press the ECO mode
on the machine will automatically going to standby mode
after 90 minutes of not being in use, conserving power,
which we are really handy feature, we've forgotten to turn it off
or you just wanted to save power on the bigger machines.
There is scheduling apps, but these machines don't have it.
So for that it does make a difference
The linea Nera like the Apartamento
comes from factory in either copper or white side circles.
Now this is a sleeve inside that can be removed and I have seen
other people put in different Perspex sleeves to their own custom colour.
Very simple to do is made to be replaced quite easily.
In this case we've got the copper
and the copper really does give it a really nice refined finish.
The linea Nera does cost a little bit more, but considering just the cup rail
as an extra is more than a difference in price, it is well worth it.
Now let's jump back into the Apartamento and make a coffee.
So we preloaded 21 grams into the basket.
and while we're doing that
it's as if the steam arm a Purge
And let`s do the milk
nice little flat, white, great little machine.
If you have any questions on this machine or any of the Rocket range
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