Single best thing about owning a Thermomix

Last night I posted a cheeky Facebook status stating that I would need to now write something with some substance since MKR wasn't on for a few nights, as I had been recently doing an episode recap on my blog. My cousin suggested that I write about the single greatest thing about being a Thermi owner. So I am going to give it a go.

We all know from my Nutella Christmas Tree review that I am a pretty big fan of the kneading function, who doesn't want that? Saves a whole lot of exercise that's for sure, and we all know how annoying exercise can be. Am I right? Looking down at my guts.

So I have taken everything that the machine does into account and tried quite thoughtfully to think of the single greatest thing about it. So here it goes.

I approach the Thermomix being a bit technology obsessive, I would be lying if the touch screen and the recipe chip weren't enough to sell it, I am a bit of a sucker like that. I would like to see it link to wireless and kick off cooking remotely via an app, but we will have to wait for the TM6 for that I suppose. Off topic already, not good. What I would say the greatest thing is the minimal effort that is required across the entire cooking process. You hear people telling you things like that's not cooking, takes all the fun out of it. Those people obviously don't own a Thermomix, and when I hear people say those things I tend to be happy they don't own one. They don't get invited to dinner either... 

You are not taking away anything from the cooking, all you are doing is condensing the cooking process to the one location. Avoiding the spread of mess throughout your kitchen.

For instance, if I am making a zuchini slice, hand grating the zucchini and the onion for 20 minutes isn't going to make it taste better than the Thermomix chopping it in 3 seconds. Not to mention the fact that you measure your ingredients straight into the thermi like some sort of wizard! Plus, you save the tips of your fingers from trauma along with the crying onion eyes (I can hear a song with the words crying onion eyes playing in my head). Granted it wont julienne for instance, but if you are wanting to julienne something for a dish, then you just julienne it, chances are it's going to be some sort of wanky plating garnish anyway. Not sure about you folks, but when my wife and I are making dinner on a week night, the last thing I give a flying follicle about is garnish or how nice and fine my carrots are cut.

So, reducing effort isn't something that stops with the cooking process, it extends to the amount of bench space required and the amount of cleaning before, during and after you cook. For most recipes, you will find that the Thermomix performs around 80 to 90 percent of the process, through preparation, cooking and cleaning. This, I feel is the best part of the device. Less mess, preparation, and cleaning means more time, and more TIME is really what this is all about at the end of the day. 

Forget what I said about effort earlier, it's all about the time. The phrase time poor is probably the most promenent phrase that comes up in the sales spiel when you go to see one of these devices in action, and it isn't just something they say to suck you in. Vorwerk have been making Thermomix for a quarter of a century now and they know who their target audience is, and they have developed a product around that very audience. 
It can be hard to eat properly when you are time poor, there is a reason that all the doctors that my wife works with own one of these, they are probably in the most time poor profession around but they understand the importance of healthy home cooked meals.

So in conclusion, I would say the time saving that you get from using the Thermomix is the single greatest thing about owning one. I think if you ask my wife she will tell you the same thing, in fact she is the one that keeps telling me these things, I am just along for the ride. The tasty tasty Thermi ride to mushroom risotto heaven.

Take a look at GC's Galaktoboureko thermomix recipe below...