To ditch a friend over the Thermomix cult.

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My friend has been brainwashed firstly to spend an incredible amount of money on a thermomix and then has signed up to convert others to do the same. Is it not pyramid scheme ?
Nothing she posts all over SM or says in RL is without some reference to the overpriced appliance. In my favour we live faraway from each other but wait...she found me a local dealer. I do not trust things sold in this way nor feel comfortable with the concept of only being able to purchase something through another cult member having attended their special induction.

I ditched others over Forever Living.

Same here.

Thing is Megan bacon most people already do have an oven and some pans so it’s pointless

Yes. I have pots, an oven, utensils and a hob. I even have a processor and a slow cooker.
This unattractive and extortionately expensive item has no purpose that can’t be achieved in most people’s homes without it and for free.
Why would you?

My in-laws recipe book has a recipe for gherkin salad where I shit you not you use the thermomix to chop your gherkins.

And then you have to clean a weird contraption instead of a copping board and a knife...

For £1200.

I'll stick to pots and pans thanks.

My best friend loves hers and has never once suggested I get one. I think she said it was around £1k 😮

I have a friend who loves his (& he's quite a good cook generally).

I'd rent one for say fifty quid for a month & see if I felt like I couldn't live without it, but then I quite like kitchen gadgetry. Buy it upfront for $$$$ & then have to use it every day to justify it? Nope.

& yes just snooze the friend for a month!

No need to drop her entirely, just unfollow on SM and shut down conversations where she tries to sell you.

I have a terrifyingly high number of people who have joined MLMs during the lockdown trying to sell me all sorts of shit. Yoonique, body shop, Avon, skinny coffee (is that what it's called? They never actually use the name of the product!), Herbalife, the tropical one.... its awful, people- almost always women isn't it?- sucked in to these shit shows and loosing money on cheap crap.

I'd take a thermomix seller over them!

Thing is Megan bacon most people already do have an oven and some pans so it’s pointless

Beyond the pans and the oven, it functions as scales, steamer, grinder, liquidiser, whisk, bread maker.
It saves huge amounts of time on washing up, you weigh into the bowl you are mixing in. I wouldn't do half my Christmas baking without it.
I use it every day for completely normal cooking.
I'm guessing you don't have one?

Tell her you've already got one. Also works on charity muggers and unsolicited parenting advice.

I refuse to buy anything that is an MLM.

People add me to groups, I politely leave or quietly deny the request.

I don’t make a big song and dance over it as it usually doesn’t work. They have invested money in this scheme and will bury their heads in the sand determined to tell themselves it will work.

I know lots of MLM people. Some are still going. Some have stopped.

One that I remember clearly was a younique bot.

She posted every single day, multiple times a day about all these bonuses she got, thanking her purple card for the reason her kids got to do these things and other stuff.

She had a second job which actually paid for these things. One day, she just stopped posting about younique. So I’m guessing it failed like I expected, but I didn’t rub her face in it

MeganBacon why would you have an appliance for each of those things?

We have an old fashioned balance scale which is how my children learnt to understand the concept of weight (what exactly is 100g, 1kg, 1g, 10g, when you hold it in your hand, which helps with school primary maths, with the eary concepts needed for algebra - solving for x - and also with cooking by eye, judging what other things like a parcel you need to post - which you can also weigh on the balance scales - weigh etc).

Other than that the "appliances" are pots, mixing bowls, spoons and hands, all of which you surely still need even if you have a thermomix...?

There’s loads of used ones for sale on eBay at around £500, so lots of people seemingly find their lives haven’t been enriched by having one.

Liquidiser, whisk. But obviously, if you don't want to save time and space, don't bother with it. I'm not here to sell it!

It saves huge amounts of time on washing up, you weigh into the bowl you are mixing in

I also do that when baking. I put the bowl I am mixing in on the scales. And I can't see how putting the baking bowl into the dishwasher takes 'huge amounts of time'.

I can see the value for a well off cooking enthusiast in a tiny kitchen, but almost no-one falls into that category.

Let me guess. It's not just about the Thermomix? If you really value this friend, say I'm glad you're happy with yours, but I'm not interested thanks. If she keeps going on about it, you need to tell her, nicely, sorry doll you're getting a bit boring now.

Maybe she's going through some kind of trauma that means she's fixated on this as a distraction method. Have you tried a U OK HUN?

I have friend/acquaintance that only really bothers to get in touch to covertly sell. I don't get involved now. Shame.

£2000 is way more than a couple of months salary for me, so I'd guess they do compare with the Kirkby hoover.

I've just discovered the slow cooker. I'm not ready for a Thermomix yet...

I hate them. I went to a friend's demo and spent the entire time thinking: that would be easier done in a bowl/with a hand whisk/blender. They are totally not labour saving - you have to clean them out between each action. Much better to just cook then get DC to wash up after dinner, surely. That's labour saving.

It looks like it doesn't do things quite as well. The article says it pulverises rather than chops for example. I'd rather chop and use a mixer!

It’s not about the appliance is it? It’s about the fact that the business model is MLM. Your friend will lose money.

Dh bought a similar gadget not sure what he spent to be fair Initially sceptical I am a convert. I use it most days now and stick in dishwasher. Not sure I have mentioned it to anyone though!

I bought one two years ago and its one of my best purchases. I didn't have any hard sell, and I was never asked to join up, you really don't have to. Its obvious the people here comparing it to a pot or a rice cooker don't know much about it. I was already a fairly competent cook, but the guided cooking means I can make all sorts of things I wouldn't have attempted before. Also, my teenage son makes all sorts of stuff in it because you really can't go wrong. But they aren't for everyone, and if she won't take no for an answer, the problem is with your friend, not Thermomix.

scales, steamer, grinder, liquidiser, whisk, bread maker.

I own a set of scales, a colander I can stem veg in should the mood take me, a stick blender, a whisk, and a bread maker. I don't often feel the need to grind stuff TBH. I actually have the cheap Lidl version a snip at 250 quid which the ILs foisted on us as a wedding present. Used maybe ten times in total, now gathering dust in the cellar. As I predicted. Saving time on washing up? I have a dishwasher. Cost a lot less than £1,200.

Honestly, if you like it, knock yourself out. I'm fully aware that half my animosity is due to my ILs being pains in the arse who won't let it drop.

We have an old fashioned balance scale which is how my children learnt to understand the concept of weight (what exactly is 100g, 1kg, 1g, 10g, when you hold it in your hand, which helps with school primary maths, with the eary concepts needed for algebra - solving for x - and also with cooking by eye, judging what other things like a parcel you need to post - which you can also weigh on the balance scales - weigh etc).

I love my balance scales. They were a wedding present 30 years ago. I have both imperial and metric weights. They are part of the ritual of cooking/baking for me.