This is the R Nine One from Rocket. It's the top of the range model
and we get to play with it. So, thanks very much Espresso
Company Australia for lending us this lovely machine. So, we
can learn about it and teach you all about it. There's a
couple of videos we're going to do because this machine has so
much to offer in the high-end home market.
So while it's heating up we'll just run through a few of the
specs for you and what you get in the box you saw that it came
on a full pallet this thing is a tank it is got the heritage
of their commercial models that they've crammed it all in to a
domestic unit it weighs 47 kilos so make sure you do get
a hand to lift it up and position on your bench because
it is just too hard and heavy to lift that by itself but that
does mean that there is amazing quality in there so inside it
does have you know great components throughout they
haven't skipped anywhere and they've managed to style it in
traditional rocket finesse that they just do. I mean, the look
and feel of these machines is timeless. Uh some of the old
models 20 years ago are still relevant today. So, it's a real
credit to look at how well this is manufactured to the styling
and just the aesthetic aesthetics of it. Um it is a
big unit. It does sit a little bit larger on the bench but if
you're looking at any of these machines, they're going to be a
bit larger because you do have dual boilers in there. You've
got pressure profiling and full digital control of that
pressure profiling. So that's what this machine is just
amazing to be honest. Um a lot of people want to start to
compare this machine to what I have at home myself which is
the the GS3 but they are very different in how that they
work. So I'm going to come back to that in a minute. So this
machine is basically a digital version allowing you to control
your pressure profiling to the next level. It's just amazing.
So so let's go back and just check out a of the specs we've
got a fully saturated 1. 9 liter front brew boiler there
which is PID controlled so you can adjust that temperature to
whatever you like you've got your rear boiler which is 3. 6
liters that's going to run your hot water tap and your steamer
as well so that's those two sizes are a little bit bigger
than the GS3 with your hot tap you've got a mixer on here
which allows you to add some cold water in there and get it
right down to that perfect temperature you may want for
your tees or your long blacks and you've got your full long
steam arm which we've seen on a few other machines with this
side lever action so that's a pretty cool feature the machine
can be plumbed or you can use your three liter inbuilt water
tank if you're going to be looking at pressure profiling
you would definitely want to plumb that into mains so that
you've got a standard pressure that's coming through into the
machine then you can ramp up from that Now, if you've got a
huge bar pressure coming into the machine, you will need to
put a pressure limiting valve in to bring that down. So, that
will bring it down around that three bar to start with or if
you want to start at a much lower pressure, you will have
to reduce it further down so that the magnetic electric pump
inside this can actually then ramp up the pressure that you
choose. So, just keep that in mind if you are going to plumb
it in, you do have a baseline pressure to start with. With a
big machine like this, you do get a really big drip tray
which is great because when you start to pressure profile and
play a lot more you want to be able to have room for that
water to to be held and you can run that down to a drain with a
hose if you want on the front you've got your two gauges
there then nice and big so you can see what's happening you've
got your bar pressure for your steam on the bottom and then
you've got your pump pressure on the top now in some terms
those gauges are a little bit old school because then you've
got your high-resolution color screen here which is going to
tell you everything that you need to know about your
machine. The pressure as you're actually brewing it, how to
change different temperatures and settings. It's all done
through that interactive menu which is inbuilt to the
machine. So, you don't have to go and use it app or or have
another plug in or anything. It's just all inside the
machine which makes it super user friendly for anyone to
have a play with. In True Rocket Form, you get a
beautiful presented timber box with all goodies. You get three
handles. So, you get a single group, a double spout, and a
naked which is an extra that a lot of machines don't give you.
Um you've got your plumbing kit, a manual, the cleaning
cloth, a group head cleaning brush. Um I think that's about
it. Maybe a couple other little things in there. Hang on. Hang
on. Hang on. What else? I knew there's something else.
And you get a blind basket with some cleaning tablets as well
to get you started so the R9 one does sit in the above the
$10, 000 coffee machine area which is competing with the GS3
and the slayer as well so you're definitely up that that
high end now when you start to compare them apples for apples
each manufacturer has really focused on doing something a
little bit different so what Rocket have focused on is being
able to do pressure profiling and have that super repeatable
so that's what excites me the most about this machine look I
love my GS3 but it's up to me to be able to repeat a profile
with that manual brew lever so when you look at the menu here
you've got five presets that you can have dialed into the
machine on that pressure profiling now they're labeled
very easily on the bottom right hand corner here if you just
tap it you go from A B C D E and there are your profiles and
you can load those up and select them very easily. If you
press it one more time, sorry twice you'll go to what's
called manual brew and what that allows you to do is you
can manually play with this lever the further you go the
obviously the more pump pressure it's going to apply to
your coffee bed it records that in a graph so digitally on the
front you can see that it'll start at three bar six come
back to three whatever you choose and once you finish that
recipe you can easily save it into one of those preset
settings and then you can repeat that time and time
again. When you activate your brew lever, not only does it
start to record the time which is a short timer. It's great.
It's also telling you how much mills of water that you're
you're pumping through. So, that is just cool data that any
geek is going to love when you start to play with this
machine. In the menu, it's really easy to navigate through
and start to adjust the time and the pressure that you're
going to apply to your coffee bed. So, you simply work your
way through the menu and you can pick say at 2 seconds can
start at three bar then 20 seconds change it up to three
or four or five bar whatever you like and then ramp it back
so you've got those time parameters and the pressure
parameters that you can play with for your particular recipe
it is a standard 10 amp power supply which is 1, 600 watts to
run those two boilers which is actually pretty low given how
much is going on in this machine and you get a full
twenty-four month warranty so that's fantastic it's good to
see some manufacturers giving that home user that X support
over more than 12 months because that's something that
we've had a lot of feedback that customers want that extra
support so what I'm going to do is we're going to brew a couple
of coffees I'm going to set it up and do a manual brew and
we'll be able to see that data happening on the screen then
we'll save it as a profile and then we'll go back use that
profile to make a second coffee and just show you how
repeatable and easy it is to make a beautiful coffee with
the R91 in the R9 1 kit you got three baskets it looks like you
get a seven to nine gram, a 14 to 16 and the 20 and it happen
to be in this naked and you can see it's got the tapered edge
on it now we're looking at top of the range machines here with
pressure profiling we want to give it the best it possibly
can so I've grabbed myself a VST precision basket now we've
done a video on this specifically if you're looking
to minimize any sort of distributing and flow issues
the technology behind these baskets check out our other
videos and I reckon it's going to make the coffee much
better when we start to play with this pressure profiling.
So, we've got our 22 and a half grams of coffee. We're going to
pop it into our portafilter handle we're going to level it
out we've got a little flair screens and a bit of WDT so we
really do want to break up any of these clumps if you have a
look there so these clumps is are really going to be affected
by the water as it comes into the shop so getting our little
WDT breaking those up doing some low WDTing some metal and
then finishing it off with some high WDT we're then making sure
we've got an amazing prepared puck to make a nice even flow
of coffee we're going to use our NCD distributor tool here
as well couple of spins. I'm just going to use our automatic
tamper which is set to 14 kilos.
Great and we're going to pop in a flare pack screen as well
that helps that the water get more even onto the coffee bed
so look again really techy but imagine how big a drip is it's
going to cut one drip down to about maybe six or seven drips
and really get that water more evenly onto the coffee bed but
it's also going to stop that coffee from rising up when
we're playing with different pressures
We got our cup under. Tear off our scales. And I'm going to
watch this screen a little bit better here. So we're going to
start to brew. It's so finite this adjustment. Here we go.
We'll get it up to three bar.
Here we go. 3. 3 bar for 11 seconds. I want to ramp that up
to nine bar.
And then I'm going to bring it right back down to three bar
again just to finish off the shot
and just finishing off really gently there. Try not to
overextract watching my recipe here. So aiming for 45 grams of
in liquid weight.
And that is super responsive so I've managed to stop that at
45. 1 gram so that is a perfect two to one recipe for us
Now we can save that. So if we press and hold our star
and it says last profile has been saved. Great. So when
you've got a saved profile as it comes with five it's very
easy to go back in and change them so we can hit our ah
button in the middle and down the bottom right hand corner
here you've got your recipes and you can see at the top you
can navigate very easy through from A B C D and E they're your
5 profiles and on the left hand side you've got five time
stamps essentially that you can change and on your right is the
pressure that's going to be applied on those individual
time stamps so at time one at seven seconds we can either
increase that maybe to 7. 17. 2 seconds and as you navigate
down through these buttons you can change the different time
times on them and then come across to the other side and
start to change the bar pressure so as I did before I
had a a three bar and then maybe up to eight tapering back
down to as it says here five and let's ramp that right back
down to two bar to finish off for the last five seconds of
the brew
and then just hit the arrow the tick there and you've you've
saved so that profile is ready to go yeah the one thing I'm
not enjoying 100% is the responsiveness of the LCD
screen you've gotta get it in the exact spot to to make the
change and I think that's because in technology with
iPhones and everything we've got this amazing touchscreens
and they're they're pretty great they're super responsive
they haven't really made their way down to these first model
coffee machines that are starting to use this technology
so I'm sure that will progress with future models to be a much
better responsive navigation through the menu so I've been
able to make my own manual process and manual brew recipe
and profile recipe and then save it so all we have to do
now is lock in our handle pop in our cup tear it off and
simply just start the brew process and it's going to
follow that last recipe and while we've got that extra time
because I don't have to worry about it you can see that
profile coming up slowly up to three bar it's then going to go
right up to the nine bar that I got it to and then taper it
right off I got plenty of time that I can steam and be ready
to make an awesome latte There you go. It's starting to tape
it back off again. Check out the steam quality. Plenty of
steam pressure from that 3. 6 litre boiler. Absolutely wild
steam I'll be honest. Whoo. Here we go.
That's got a huge vortex there on that milk. That is so much
steam pressure. That's that's fantastic. Rest my milk. Get a
cloth to wipe that up. Clean up now you might notice that that
is only. 5 of a gram out and I reckon it's because I didn't
tear the glass properly but that is super close we've got a
full recipe that's been repeated we've got our
beautiful silky milk there ready to rock and roll look at
that that is just glossy it's the first time we've ever froth
with this as well so very impressed with it and that's
silky milk for sure
There you go and a little latte to finish.
That was really enjoyable apart from the mess up with the
brewing I'm I'm feeling it's a very accurate very precise
super responsive in that that magnetically controlled
pressure profile pump almost something we get it used to I
mean I'm I'm been using the GS3 and it's a bit of a manual
gauge but that was just so gentle it's so smooth it's not
noisy so you don't have a vibration pump obviously which
is quite noisy it's the gear pump that's in this the
magnetic drive pump is far quieter than the rotary pump
and it just seems super responsive. So, that that's a
real joy. It's it's beautiful to work with. I must admit. Um.
Hey, Luke, I've got a question for you. Yeah. Do you think you
would trade your GS3 in for this thing? I I'm not going to
answer that just yet but I'm very impressed. I I think this
is going to take pressure profiling to the next level for
people. Um I'll answer that question after I've had a
chance to play with it a little bit more. So anyway I hope
that's given you a good representation of what the R9
one rocket is about. It's tech specs and you know what you can
do with it. It's that is just super control super easy so
intuitive really for anyone that doesn't want to get super
techy but you've actually got amazing technology to work with
having a profile that you might be able to replicate from
someone that you know jump online and ask them for
particular coffee or a roaster like myself then we give you a
single origin to say we want X amount of grams coffee start
say our recipe 22 and 1/ 2 grams and maybe even a 40 gram
yield just to be less than that two to1 with a pressure profile
of three, six, 7, nine back to two. You know, we could you can
get all that data and just dial it in very easily and have a
beautiful coffee and a wonderful experience. So,
that's that's exciting. It really is. Anyway, thanks very
much for watching. Um if you've got a question about the Rnine
one, please chuck it down below. I'd love to answer that
one for you and I look forward to making a couple more videos
while we have this on loan. So, thanks again to Espresso
Company Australia for learning it to us. You definitely get me
a little bit out of my comfort zone you know playing with
something that's is so refined so nice and anyway I'm really
excited to play more with this machine and see what it can do
for a home user and love look forward to sharing that with
you soon anyway thanks very much for watching everyone
we'll catch you next time cheers.