Been to a demo, went very interested, but frankly I was turned off. I like to cook and to me it took away a lot of the joy of cooking (I know I am not the first person to say that about the thermomix).

I felt the sales talk bent the truth, making claims that were not quite right. For example, it can make bread dough, but it cannot bake the bread, so it claims of throw out your bread maker is not really true. I have enough kitchen equipment to get by and frankly find it just as quick to pull out a decent knife and chopping board to chop food, than what it would be to chop it into chunks, chuck it in the thermomix and then have to wash it.