4 models · Updated · Italy · Founded 2007
Rocket Espresso builds hand-assembled machines in Milan for the top of the home market. The Appartamento is the entry point and the best known: a 1.8 litre heat exchanger in a 20 kg stainless body, sized to fit a domestic counter. Above it the range moves to rotary pumps, plumbing options and, on the Bicocca, a genuine double stainless boiler with an electrically heated PID-controlled group. These are commercial-architecture machines in domestic dimensions — heat exchangers and dual boilers rather than thermoblocks, which is why they weigh three to four times what a mainstream machine does.
Rocket Espresso warranty in the US is handled through authorised distribution.
Rocket runs its own parts store and publishes technical documentation; US specialists carry spares and perform service.
Commercial architecture throughout — E61-family groups, standard 58 mm baskets and serviceable boilers. Rocket sells group-head gaskets and wear parts directly.
Double stainless boilers, a rotary pump and an electrically heated PID-controlled group in a 35 kg machine.
The Appartamento with temperature control added — the same 1.8 litre heat exchanger, now adjustable rather than fixed.
A full-size 1.8 litre heat exchanger offered with either a vibration pump or a rotary pump and mains plumbing.
A 1.8 litre heat exchanger in a 20 kg hand-assembled Milanese body, sized deliberately to fit a domestic counter.
Specifications are transcribed from Rocket Espresso's official site. How we score.