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Hi all,
I really want a thermomix but need some ammo to convince DH with. Looking at having to save for a while to afford it, but I'm willing :)
1. How long have you had your TMX?
2. How often do you use it?
3. What did you make with it in the last 48 hours?
4. What's your favorite three things to make with it?
Thanks :)
1. How long have you had your TMX?
About 18 months
2. How often do you use it?
Every day. Multiple times a day.
3. What did you make with it in the last 48 hours?
Sausage rolls, Steamed fish, salted caramel fudge, goats cheese, olive tepanade. (And I pulled out some brioche dough out of the freezer that was made with it), chopped a billion things for different meals, CADA, Porridge, Hot Chocolate.
4. What's your favorite three things to make with it?
Everything! Honestly we've saved enough over the past 12 months to cover it easily. I make school snacks, breads, doughs, pastes and spice mixes, baking powder, dips, ricotta, yoghurt... All number of sweet yummies... I would seriously use it at least 3 times a day probably more. I had a wedding party here getting ready for a wedding on Thursday I chucked lots of veggies in and made a curried veggie soup with feta to sustain us all till the wedding. It's tricky at first to get your head around using it a lot. And I still cook without it. Don't feel you NEED to use it for everything or you might hate it. We don't and even still I use it more than anything else in my kitchen. But for us it means I can cook from scratch. I've always got ingredients for a lot of things including simple things like coconut milk, curry pastes and doughs. It's easy to clean, cuts out time. And if you want to you can make a whole meal in it!
Hi Mrs P,
I have had my Thermo for about 7 months. I use it everyday without fail. Usually at least 3-5 times a day. In the last 48hrs i have made: Bread, Dips, CADA, bread rolls, risotto, soup, stock, porridge, gravy, falafel and chocolate puddings.
So many favourites. We usually make porridge everyday- so handy to have it cooking while feeding my baby. Risotto is a fail safe meal when i dont have much in the fridge and need something quick. Lots of yummy curries.
Without doubt, it is the best purchase i have ever made.
Has your hubby been to a demo? I had trouble convincing mine until he saw first hand what it could do at a demo.
Hope you get one. you wont be disapointed!!!:)
Am I allowed to answer even if I don't have a thermomix?
I would really love one, but cannot talk Dp into buying one.
I was able to talk him into letting me buying a Bellini (the cheap Target version). I am hoping when this does to get a Thermomix.
I am really hooked on thermo cooking.
I use it 2-3 times per day.
In the last 24 hours I have made banana 'ice cream', lemon lime coconut sorbet, pancake mixture, Quirky cooking 'fried' rice, almond milk and dough for a loaf of light rye bread.
Tonight I will be making choc buttermilk muffins (buttermilk leftover from making butter from cream).
I really hope you can convince him! I'll be a little bit jealous though!
I had to convince DH as well. We have not looked back and DH is completely won over.:
1. I've only had it three weeks :)
2. I've used it every day, bar one day when I'd had about three hours sleep and we went to the ILs for the afternoon and dinner as I was exhausted. I generally use it at least twice, if not three or four times a day.
3. In the last 48hrs... Working backwards... Bolognaise sauce, ganache, chocolate cake, bread rolls, Thai green curry, cinnamon scrolls, a load of bread, poached eggs for the whole family.
4. Favourite three things: one of them is fast becoming bread - it is so easy to throw the ingredients in, let it knead, stick it in the oven, bam, fresh bread. We haven't bought bread in two weeks. CADA - it's my breakfast "go to", coconut, almonds, dates and an apple (hence CADA) - throw it all in, blitz it on turbo for literally three seconds (three pushes of the turbo button), chuck it in a bowl with some yoghurt, yum yum. Eggs - I love poached eggs but have never been able to do them nicely, TMX does them perfectly.
What convinced my DH was the savings I predicted. He didn't think I'd do it but we are cooking almost everything from scratch these days. The green curry I did last night was deeeelish. It is one of DH's favourite dishes, we always order it from Thai restaurants and he has never been able to make it from scratch. Well, now I have and DH has declared it to be the best green curry he's ever had. And so cheap to make. Herbs, spices, chuck em in, whirl em round, add the chicken, cook it up, all done.
Today I had a shift on a phone helpline that I do from home and in between calls I was able to make a chocolate cake with ganache topping (and I usually always stuff up the ganache!) then get a bolognaise sauce cooking (from scratch - not a dolmio jar in site!) and walk away to take calls, knowing that dinner was cooking and wasn't going to burn because I wasn't there to stir it.
It frees me up to do more important things.
That, in my mind, is winning and makes it all worthwhile.
Great thread I don't have one yet but going to demo on Sat :-) All this will be back up to convince DH is ok for mum and dad to buy me one.
1. How long have you had your TMX?
Since November last year
2. How often do you use it?
At least once, usually more times a day
3. What did you make with it in the last 48 hours?
Green juice, porridge, rice, boiled eggs, pancake batter, macarons
4. What's your favorite three things to make with it?
rice and boiled eggs - seriously easy, green juices, porridge, cashew satay sauce, batters, bread doughs, steamed veges and salmon, bolognese, quick soup for lunch, my newest fav is macarons....oh wait, you just asked for 3 :D
1. How long have you had your TMX? About 18 months
2. How often do you use it? Daily, if I am cooking. Usually about twice per day.
3. What did you make with it in the last 48 hours? Vege stock concentrate, brioche dough, mashed potatoes, vege muffins, porridge.
4. What's your favorite three things to make with it? Pizza dough (our go to dinner is pizza), white sauce, butter chicken (always gets rave reviews).
I think the TM is a big investment. Yes, there are other appliances that can do some of its functions, but this does so much in one unit that is always out on my bench. My fav bit is cooking whilst stirring (i.e. white sauce, custards) and weighing straight into the bowl.
1. 2 years:
2. Every day now but there was a period of time moving between states that I didn't.
3. Um can't remember LOL boiled eggs, vegan chocolate mousse, pizza dough, fruit smoothie, protein drink - tthat's what dh used it for. Last week I got ds to make spaghetti bolog sauce in it by himself - he's 6.
4. Any smoothies, pizza dough or bread.
This is a weird time in our house though because I'm on a restricted intake of fat (gall bladder) so all the stuff I used to eat (lots of stuff made with nuts and seeds) are out so I'm eating quite plain stuff.
1.) Coming up to two years.:
2.) Everyday, usually at least three times a day, but often more,
3.) I'm going to have to go back a few days cause we've been away... Green smoothie, chicken and yogurt (from the Indian cookbook), boiled eggs, beetroot dip, pizza dough, potato and brussel sprout soup.
4.) That is a really tough one! Anything from the Quirky Cooking blog. I love her chicken and cashews in satay sauce, the raw vegan chocolate mousse and I am really loving smoothies for breakfast at the moment.
Loving these replies! Keep them coming!!
1. How long have you had your TMX?
2 1/2 months
2. How often do you use it?
Everyday - At least twice, sometimes more.
3. What did you make with it in the last 48 hours?
Guacamole, Cob Loaf and Dip, Banana Bread, Rice, Fried Rice, Steamed Marinated Chicken and Vegies
4. What's your favorite three things to make with it?
Guacamole, Beef Strog and Mashed Potato
My DP was the exact same - as was I. I mean $1900 is a LOT of money for a kitchen appliance. But after we house sat for a friend for 3 weeks, who owned a thermy, we were both sold.
Seriously, it's the best money we've ever spent and there's no looking back!
Bump ;)
Hi Mrs P,
1. How long have you had your TMX? 18months
2. How often do you use it? daily, usually several times, up to 5 a day weekends
3. What did you make with it in the last 48 hours? porridge, short crust pastry, quiche filling, meatball mix, cooking rice, custard for DD who is dairy free, muffins, oat/muesli slice for
DH's lunches, vegie sauce to go with the meatballs, risotto
4. What's your favorite three things to make with it? risotto, sweet things for DH's lunch due to intollerances, snacks for DD... anything that i know has as little additives etc as possible!
Ooh just what I wanted to hear :D trying to convince my DH that we need one as well!
Take him to a demo I reckon. That'd work.
That's my ultimate plan! But first I need to save a bit so I can say "Look I've already got half the money!" lol.:
I love my thermy
1. Since November last year.
2.at least daily often alot more.
3. CADA, washing powder, body scrub, banana choc chip muffins, Anzac cookies, milo cookies, apple crumble,vanilla ice cream, orange sorbet, mayo, bolognaise "dolmio" sauce, boiled eggs and rice.
4. So many favourites here we love sorbet, the banana muffins, risotto, creamy tomato salami fettuccine just to name a few.
You won't be disappointed with a thermy :)
Would so love a Thermomix!!! but it's convincing DH here too.
How do I find out about a demo??
liviam go to the thermomix in australia website and there is a link somewhere in there to request more info/demo
1. 6 months
2. Probably once a day on average (although some work days I CBF cooking AT ALL so I wouldn't use it then). And more often now that I'm getting into breakfast smoothies.
3. Peanut butter, chickpea cookies, breakfast smoothy, pineapple whip, banana muffins
4. Any cake/biscuit batter, risotto (I never cooked it before getting the thermi), sorbet or the like (a great, easy one is frozen banana whipped up with peanut butter. It's sooooo yummy & ice-creamy but EASY and good for you too!)
Snacks do you find you have less CBF days now you have a Thermomix than before. I want to reduce my CBF days - will it help me :-)
If it helps any wysiwyg - I still have lots of CBF'd days and owning a thermomix hasn't changed that. Its just because I'm lazy. And CBF'd. LOL
Oh no I was hoping it would cure me of my laziness :-) might pretend I haven't read your response when trying to convince DH (although is likely to be present from parents for next five Christmas and Birthdays I don't see why he should object - parents living in another country I think has distinct advantages in some areas ;-))
I don't have as many CBF'd days because I have a better stocked pantry and more CBF'd fallback recipes.
You know the ones where it's easier to throw everything in the TMX than it is to make toast, go to the shop or get take out.
TBH, not really. But in fairness my CBF days are mainly because my family is SUCH a PITA. They all have different aversions to different things so there are very few meals that everyone will eat happily. Because I am a sucker I tend to make more than one meal every night. That was one of my main reasons for getting the TMX - knowing that if I'm making say, 3 meals in a night it dramatically decreases kitchen time & makes things much easier.
E.g. DH doesn't eat tomato-based pasta sauces, he likes white sauce. So if I'm making pasta, I will have red sauce or pesto sauce and I can do a TMX white sauce (in 7 minutes, no lumps, perfect every time & it won't get spoiled on the stove because I've forgotten about it) at the same time. Oh, and with the TMX I can make my own pesto too - soooo much tastier than the bought stuff! Obviously not at the same time but I'll have made mine earlier or something.
Another example is I'll do a boring meat & 3 veg for DH & the girls while the TMX is making me a risotto or a soup that I can then portion off and freeze for lunches or dinners. Phoebe will eat those but the others won't.
So I think if your family are 'normal' and eat the same meals then it would reduce your CBF days because there are some very easy recipes to make as long as you've got the ingredients there. The thing I love about it is that for most things I like to cook it's just put-everything-in-and-off-you-go.
ETA: Just remembered, Wysiwyg, I won DH over with the sorbet. When I told him I could make sorbet from scratch whenever he liked he was sold on it. ;)
Great thread! It's making me think that maybe I'd like one. I have a question though, how many of the things you make with your thermomix did you make prior anyway? I for instance am often baking, have started making my own bread with my bread machine, we make currys from scratch....is it more for the time saving aspect, or did you not cook these things before?
EDIT - I also have an ice cream maker which I use occasionally but it generally takes quite a while by the time you mix the ingredients, cool in the fridge and then mix in the maker - are all these steps involve with the thermomix?
I make some curries without the TMX. Some with. To make the ice cream/sorbet the ingredients need to be frozen. But we just have a draw full of frozen fruit, coconut milk etc ready to go.
Here's another wow factor. You can make a tin of coconut milk/cream with 40gms dessicated coconut and 400mls water :)
The beauty of the TMX for me is that I didn't have a food processor or ice-cream maker or even digital scales prior to the purchase, so for me, I'm really not doubling up on anything which kind of makes it more worthwhile.
And no, I didn't make a lot of this stuff in the past because it all seemed like too much hard work.
I did do plenty of baking but the time involved is much shorter now (cake/biscuit/pancake batters, sauces, melting chocolate etc). I'm sure there are things I'm still yet to make out of the awesome cookbook that I find will save me time also. Just haven't discovered them yet.
I'm still learning and wasn't a great cook before. I have an ice cream churn and I used to make bread by hand (not had a bread maker before), but the thermomix makes making the dough and custard base heaps easier. Plus you don't have to get the cooked bread out of the dough hooks in the bread maker and you can choose the shape of the loaf.
:happydance: DH and I went to a TMX demo last night, and we BOUGHT ONE! Can't wait to get it and start creating TMX goodies!
Cool - mine arrives Friday.
Oh I'm so jealous of both of you lol!!
We are visiting friends on Sunday that have one, may have to request an impromptu demo for DH :)