Gloomtastic! wrote: » ‘Only available through our advisors’. Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me......
lfc200 wrote: » Very much geared towards professional chefs or food development businesses. We have them where I work they certainly are useful and robust
rubadub wrote: » are you working in a professional kitchen? Did you have to get/suffer this salesperson calling out? I can not imagine many chefs or restaurateurs being too happy about having to fork out what is presumably a large % of the cost of the item on the expense on having some middleman come around for a form of commission. Or can you bypass this and get it cheaper? If they want a second one do they have to put up with this again? and pay full price?
dudara wrote: » They are pro-kit and not at all cheap. Probably not sold generally as they are not made in huge numbers.
lfc200 wrote: » Very much geared towards professional chefs or food development businesses. We have them where I work they certainly are useful and robust, unless you are going to get a lot of use out of it, you'd probably struggle to justify the price of them.
wonski wrote: » They are not used in professional kitchens etc. Sold using presentations at private homes. Not suitable for chefs etc at all. Saying that I know of two people who are happy with those devices, the way it is being sold might put some off. For me it is just a fancy overpriced kitchen gadget. For some it is a life saver, though. If your oh is thinking of it, then she probably met someone who owns one
dudara wrote: » I know a few chefs who have a Thermomix and I only know one domestic owner (who is heavily connected to the restaurant trade). Are you speaking from professional experience here as it goes against the grain of what I’ve seen?
Anyone using cooking robots like the Thermomix or it's clones in 2024?
There's only 2 threads on boards about them indicating they haven't quite caught on yet, but they look the job for making restaurant quality food at home with very little fuss.
I had no idea they existed upto a few weeks ago when a friend told me about them.
I've been doing a lot of research on them and it has become a bit obsessive! 😂
I have my sight set on the cheapest clone, the Cecotec Mambo Touch which has sold for as low as €200 new on Amazon Spain, and its the most compact I've seen.
Just looking to dip my toes into them and the Mambo Touch seems to hold its own against Lidl's Monsieur Cuisine Smart.
There's a few drawbacks with the mambo.
All that aside the Mambo touch seems unreal value for money.
I currently have a free trial of Thermomix' Cookido app and I'm using a really cool app called Recipe Keeper to automatically scrub and store the title, ingredients, instructions, photo etc. from the recipes webpage, so I can adapt them for use with the Mambo Touch later. You can scale the recipe very easily with it too.
Those drawbacks from the mambo seem kind of significant. I think you get what you pay for with machines like this.
I like kitchen gadgets and have looked at these. I think the big issue is cost. For the big guns like thermomix or Kenwood cooking chef you’re talking north of €1500 which is a lot. Those prices have risen lately too. Also thermomix won’t just sell you a machine. They do online demos and want you to rope in friends. Then they want you to subscribe to use the app which is the heart of the machine. That’s after a big layout on buying the thing.
I’m nit sure if these will ever really catch on. Not until they’re cheaper and still good quality. Also, on a forum like this I’d say people like a challenge so making sauces etc which these machines do well is kind of a skill to be mastered. I think they benefit a time poor affluent person who doesn’t want to survive on takeaways
They are significant but Im willing to work around them for a saving of 1.2 grand.
I forgot to mention the mambo touch can weigh down to the gram unlike the Monsieur Cuisine Smart which weighs in 5 gram increments.
There's no reverse gear but it gets around this by including the "spoon" attachment and it just clicks in without needing to remove anything underneath. In a comparison video it did a much better job at kneading and the dough didn't stick to the jug unlike the MC Smart.
In my case it will be handy for creating sauces, soups and deserts from scratch without having to worry about temperature and spending lots of time mixing by hand.
It will take a bigger player like Philips to bring out an affordable one with good support for recipes before they're mass adopted like the Air Fryer.
if you buy a thermomix you'll love it ,and tell everyone you meet that you love it ,because you've just spent thousands on it +and cant get a refund -
And + thermomix - for when you've always wanted to joina cult - but dont have the energy for the group sex...
It’s exactly like a cult, or Amway. Anyone heard of that scam? Basically a goods flogging Ponzi scheme. I see a lady in Limerick is promoting Thermomix via a website where you purchase through her. I really dislike that way of doing business. If your product is good, and I have no reason to think the thermomix isn’t good, then it should sell itself. In the end though I can’t get over the fact that the Thermo mix is a very fancy blender. The same with the Kenwood Cooking Chef which is a very fancy mixer. I’d sooner go Kenwood myself but I’m still of the opinion that online recipe availability is what makes these things worth the money so I’d say if you can find a cheap alternative with lots of comparable online content, go for it.
My German colleague and his wife love theirs, I think thermomixes are more common there.
I had the lend of one for a month with a spare jug and they are handy but it kind of took away the feeling of making anything myself and getting better and cooking. Like if you want a foolproof hollandaise sauce etc but for €1500 it was a bit too much and a bit too small too for what I’d want. Saying that if I was given a free one I’d totally find use for it
I think that’s the way to go actually, try before you buy. You get a feel for what you think before committing. I suppose that’s what Thermomix are trying with the guided demos but having a pro on hand insulates you from getting a real feel for the machine IMHO. It’s because of experience that would make me go for the Kenwood Cooking Chef because of familiarity with the brand. Honestly though enjoy cooking for its own sake so might feel like I was cheating having one of those to hand.
I think though back in the day when I was in the office and getting home at 7 or 8 some evenings, a thermomix or equivalent would have been a godsend and meant that I ate better while the machine cooked something good while I was showering and getting sorted after the day.
On the professional kitchen argument, I know of one fine dining restraunt that uses one. They buy second hand.
A few for sale on marketplace which tells a lot I think! I bought a bread maker lately on MP, another abeit cheaper thing people buy and don't use, there are tons of them there lol.
My wife has been looking at a Thermomix for years and always wanted one. I was highly dubious we would reap the benefit. She went ahead and got one last month after saving for a while. After four weeks we (family of 5) are all eating much healthier- We have three kids and had fallen into the trap of busy lifestyle giving kids processed foods too many times a week and not being organised enough.
The Thermomix obviously hasn't solved all our problems but it has made earing healthy a lot easier and provided a greater variety of food. The key is being organised planning meals for the week and ensuring we have all the ingredients for each meal. We have made better batches of soup, brown bread and dinners such as kormas, butter chicken, pasta and salmon dishes.
In the month we have it I've lost 8 lbs and my wife has lost about the same. Now this isn't purely down to the Thermomix we made a conscious decision to snack less eat better all round and exercise more! But it has played a part as we are eating more of our five a day, have made healthy snacks like protein balls, soups, smoothies etc instead of eating crap. There is still a lot more we can get from the machine we haven't made stuff like homemade sauces etc but early days.
So all in all so far so good. I think most people will naturally get more from the machine in the first few months so remains to be seen if we stick with it. At this moment it seems we will its a significant investment, we are enjoying new foods and we are all getting better quality and variety of foods.
What are people's thoughts on the Thermomix vs. the Lidl Monsieur Cuisine Smart? There's nearly €1000 difference in the price for one, so that's obviously a biggie. But I wonder has anyone experience of them both and could share pros and cons?
There's several comparisons between the two on youtube.
Quite a few times I bought a cheaper item in LidlAldi, and I ended up regretting not purchasing the genuine item. E.g. bbq, power tools, camping equipment, etc.
I own a thermomix. I only pulled the trigger s at the end of January so I’m new to it. From what I’ve seen Mr Cuisine is value for money in that it does 75% of what the thermomix does as well and maybe a further 20% not as well and the rest it won’t do.
I’ve found from the Thermomix the recipe community is importantly, especially when getting used to the machine. The Thermomix one is full of recipes but there’s a subscription as well. One thing I did see was that the Mr Cuisine scale only registers in 5G increments. That may not still be true but check it out if that’s important to you. Tgermomix has moved on now too. The new TM7 is quite different from Mr Cuisine. Personally speaking I’d prefer a Thermomix for the fact it’s supported and easy to get help with. If you just want to dip into try e whole kitchen robot thing then go for the Mr Cuisine. You’d be fairly happy I think.
