Italian espresso equipment company La Marzocco revealed the latest models in its Strada line of commercial espresso machines, the Strada X and Strada S.The new machines were publicly displayed earlier this month at the HostMilano expo in Italy. They were among a number of launches coming from the La Marzocco camp, including the Pico home grinder, a Brew-By-Weight scale system for the LM Home line (more on that soon) and the Sync System collaboration with grinder-maker Mahlkönig. “Until the free space is filled with water there is no ‘pressure’ that is controllable,” La Marzocco Senior Product Manager Scott Guglielmino told Daily Coffee News. The Strada S also has separate boilers for each group and a variety of features carried over from earlier Stradas, although Smart Saturation and individual pumps per group are only available on the Strada X. A single-group machine called the Strada X1 is also available on the La Marzocco Home website with a price of $20,000.
