to buy a 1200 blender to save money

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I really want to buy a thermomix as it chops, weighs and cooks. So basically I can just chuck stuff in, hit a button and have soup. Also does dough and would make choux pastry without any effort.

I'm thinking it will save money as will be the kind of thing that lasts a lifetime, make stuff easily that I waste money on when time is short, won't need to o keep buying cheap blenders that fall to bits in 18 months.

Does anyone have one? Dh thinks its a luxury we can't afford, but I think will save money and help us eat fresher things long term.

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I make soup a lot, but not every week all year round.
Peel, chop stick in pan and cook.
Then whizz up with my stick blender, bought 19 years ago when DS was a baby to make baby mush.
I recently bought DS a stick blender for uni, cost £9.99.

God, I thought the 1200 was part of the name, not the bloody price! For a blender????

Er, no.

I peel and bung veg in a pan and blend with a 13 year old £20 blender.

How much choux pastry do you eat? I buy the occasional packet of chocolate eclairs.

I currently have a George Foreman grill, a smoothie maker, a juicer, an icecream maker, a waffle maker, a pizza oven and a popcorn maker festering in the loft. All bought on the premise of "eating better and saving money in the long run"

I do have a bread maker which I use every day, but only because DD is coeliac and I make GF bread/pizza dough in it

Also, doesn't it taste like crap if you don't brown the onions etc first?

Wannabe - the damned thing sautees too.

I just went off for a ickle read....

Still don't want one though - phew!

Will it do the laundry, walk the dog or clean the loo?

Frankly, for £1200, it damn well better!

I've got one and love it.

There is no way you are going to save £1200 by buying the Thermomix. But I want one too, so YANBU .

How often would you realistically use it? Soup takes no time at all to make and how often do you make choux pastry?

However, it's your money and if you want to spend £1200 on it then it's up to you.

I'm someone who buys a lot of expensive kitchen gadgets and I even I'm saying get a Magimix for chopping (I am in love with mine) it does everything prep wise, then if you really want soup, get a £40 Morphy Richards soup maker, it's cooks and whizzes either smooth or chunky in 20 mins and isn't over 1k in price.

Choux pastry is really easy to make! You can even use a food processor to add the eggs if for qome reason you cannot do it by hand.

Tell me when they sell a gadget that makes puff pastry.

I'm still making soup with the stick blender my mum bought when she was weaning me. 36 years ago...

Sounds rubbish. As others have said, you don't weigh for soup, so it barely saves you any effort compared to bunging the vegetables in a pan and using a stick blender. Plus you can sweat the onions/leeks etc so it will taste better in a pan.

If you want to make bread dough/pastry, get a kenwood chef. But don't kid yourself it will save you money.

And of course people who have them are evangelical about them - they've just spent £1200! Confirmation bias anyone?

I had no idea there were such things

So in the future we'll have kitchens full of the following:

A soup-and-stew-and-pastry maker
A breadmaker
Some kind of fancy salad assembler

Meat bought in hermetically sealed packaging to prevent us having to touch it, cooked in a special meat-cooker which tests its safety and adjusts the flavouring perfectly, while draining all of that unhealthy fat away.

Hmm, potatoes? Some kind of uber-safe, non-smelly, clean automatic chip cutter and fryer/masher/roaster all in one.

I bet stir fries can be cooked in the salad maker too. Oh, and don't forget the rice cooker!

My ILs have one and use it every day. My MIL offered to buy us one as a wedding present but I was like £1200 on a glorified blender? Fuck no.

My cheap stick blender (£10) lasted 10 years making soups and baby purees on a regular basis. When it died I spent £15 on a new one. I can't imagine that an extra £1175 would have resulted in quicker or tastier results.

My ILs are evangelic about theirs, especially for things that are super easy to cook normally like soup and risotto - actually, I think they are even easier to cook normally, because they have to stand around buttons and changing settings on the machine, while it's cooking. Plus, they now only cook things from the Thermomix recipe books. A bit limiting, I think.

Is this like that Kirby vacuum cleaner from the 1980s that was about £400 then

I have one which I bought myself and love it. I am über-sceptical, don't buy through parties and hate to be sold to so did my own research and only when I decided, contacted a seller. I have the older model so slightly cheaper. You could probably buy one of those second hand for a lot less tbh.

Saving money? Over its lifetime yes I think it will but I wouldn't buy it just for that reason. What makes it worth it to me is: I really enjoy cooking with it as it's easy and you can get spectacular results; it saves a tonne of time and means I can cook things I'd otherwise never do due to time/hassle eg lasagne for toddler; I cook healthier stuff in it; I am a gadgeteer/ foody and love the fact Heston and other cheffy types have them/love them , and the food has been rather delicious.

But they're not for everyone. We have no car (London) and a small old fashioned tv, but happy to pay ££££ for a magical food machine. Other friends have cars and enormous TV and think we're crazy. All about priorities and what is worth the money to you I think.

Soup isn't hard to make in a pan. It's rare that I weigh anything for soup apart from things like barley, which can get a little out of hand if you put too much in. If I make a blended soup, I use a stick blender, directly in the pan. Costs a lot less than a thermomix - which I'm not convinced would last a lifetime, or ever recoup its cost compared with chilled soup. It's got an awful lot of elements to go wrong. You'd probably have to average a pint or more of soup, every day for about 3-4 years before it started to pay you back.

You're better off spending a fraction of that on some really good pans and one of these
www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4235204.htm

Its a Bimby over here ( Italy ) and I rebelled and bought a Kenwood Cooking Chef which I love and adore. A couple of my friends sware by it and use it daily singing its praises. My Kenwood since having it gets used about the same in the winter often multiple times a day.

They are the absolute dogs bollocks of cooking gadgets. If you regularly host big dinner parties or something like that then it might be useful. Or you already make everything from scratch and want to speed up the process.

Doesn't sound like you will really use it enough tho.

We have a thermomix. They are very popular here in Spain

They are very robust, will last 20 years or more. But I agree with the person who said that all the food gets the same texture.

It's only useful if you cook everything from scratch, so own sauces, doughs etc

How on earth does it make lasagne?

I'm guessing it makes a batch of meat sauce and a batch of white sauce and you have to do the rest yourself bonkers.

Of course if it does the pasta, cheese and layering thing then it definitely is worth £1200 .