Hi, I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
And today we're looking at the Rocket Giotto let's get into it.
The Rocket Giotto now this machine is an old favorite.
It's very well known and symbolic to the Rocket brand.
Now the Giotto is a heat exchange machine, meaning that you've got a boiler with
water, but the coffee water actually goes through a heat exchange out.
The group had to make coffee and then your hot water tap gets the water
from the bottom of the boiler and your steam tap from the top of the boiler.
What that means is you can make coffee and steam at the same time.
But there is a correlation between your steam pressure and your temperature.
Of your brew, the group has actually four kilos or this over 4.05 kilos of
chrome-plated brass because of the brass one is got a firmer side, an inside.
So when the water is traveling through it heats up the group head and you get even
extraction as the water goes through.
Now in saying that it takes a while for the brass group head to heat and
now this is the same with E61 group head hit machines, not just Giotto
as it takes up a hit a wall to heat up, you actually need to turn on
the machine and it generally takes.
Probably like good half an hour for it to be at optimal temperature.
Now the machines do we get depression about 15 minutes, but when the
brass group had isn't at the right temperature, you get a bit of
temperature loss going through the head.
So you really want it to be at around 30 Minutes after starting
now talking about temperature with this machine, they've actually used
nine mill end plates on the boiler.
Their brass and plates led free.
And then Nickle platers.
So you don't get the oxidation, they've insulated the boiler and
they've run a PID controller, which is actually hidden behind the drip tray.
Now that's a really nice feature because I really liked manual machines looking
manual and then hiding electronics.
So you've got the best of both worlds.
So with the machine, you've got a 1.8 liter boiler.
Two and a half litre water reservoir.
This machine is a V the vibrating pump.
So basically you have a pump that vibrates, it's almost like a little
water piece, or when it gets current, the spring compresses and relation and pushes
the water pulsate for water through it.
It also is available in the rotary pump version, which is like a commercial setup
where you've got an impeller and the motor that pushes the water through and you
get a slightly nicer espresso out of it.
It also costs a little bit more.
The nice thing about the rotary plant is it is a little bit quieter.
Yeah. And you can plumb them in.
So on this machine, you can actually, plumb it in, but on
the rotary version, you can.
So in saying that under rotary version, it's still a two and
a half liter water reservoir.
We don't have to use it.
You can plug it in as quite simple.
You pull the reservoir out.
Flip the switch across and it becomes pumped in.
So this particular model being the is a vibrating pump, which
effectively was a traditional Giotto.
Now you've got the cool touch theme one and hot water tap.
So they go warm and not completely hot, making it easier to touch
and a little bit safer in saying that the group end is still hot.
So it's a nice feature, but one that really doesn't change the game.
All that much.
One thing that is nice is the fate or adjustable height.
Now this makes a difference.
Sometimes where if your bench or your, if you're putting on a
trolley is not particular level to help getting an even extraction.
Otherwise when the machines don't sit perfectly level, you sometimes
tend to get a flow one way or the other coming out of the spout.
So it's a nice thing to have once again, not a game-changer, but really nice to have.
So the element on this machine is actually 1200 Watts, meaning it's a 10
amp machine, most machines, are 10 amp.
There are a few exceptions to these rules.
But you'll tend to see the ones that have bigger elements or that
have twin boilers with two elements.
They use the computer to cycle through.
So at the end of the day, it doesn't make too much of a difference.
One nice thing about this machine is it's almost hidden in the in the face
here, but it's got a digital shot timer.
So you always know how long your shot's running now.
They haven't made it a big flashy screen made it really simple.
Just so it's there so you can watch it really.
You should be watching your shop more than the actual time.
One other feature it's got is if your the machine is not being used for over
90 minutes or an hour and a half, it actually shuts it down and cuts it off.
So you'll see the green light flashing so that green light
will flash with two reasons.
Either it's shut down because you haven't used it in line.
The 90 minutes, four is out of water in the reservoir, quite easy to work out,
which is which generally speaking at.
Cause you haven't used it.
But if you start operating it still flashing, you just need to
put some more water into a water reservoir, simple and effective.
It comes with two Porter filters, a double and a naked.
They used to come with a single, but rocket has really noticed there were
people were buying the Nakeds after market or secondary and not using their single.
So they just thought we'll just do a double naked and keep everyone happy.
Comfort of Tampa.
Yeah.
In saying that.
I'll probably use it for the paperwork and buy myself a real Tamper
sorry, rocket, but not a big fan comes obviously with the basket, the USB key,
with information, a cloth to clean down your machines, some cleaning tablets.
Now they actually made by , which is a brand that we carry great product.
And a simple group head brush.
Once again, I'll probably be getting rid of this brush and getting
the Espazzola group head brush, which we'll cover in another video
makes your life so much easier.
But yeah, apart from these two, which I'm not a big fan, great set of accessories,
perfect machine and the machine, I've got a soft spot for. Its actually a machine I've owned
many years ago, an older version of it.
So I don't know if it's because of that or because Rocket sponsors cycling
teams and them big lover of two wheels.
But I really do have a soft spot for this machine.
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