Anyone with a Magimix?

[ScrunchyBook]

We have a Magimix with 3 different size bowls that sit inside each other. As far as I can tell, even if you only want to use the smallest one, you still need the others clicked in place?
It's just that I find the sauce that I am making in the smallest always managed to spill over into the bowls below?

Or am I just being a total numpty?

For the smallest bowl, you shouldn't need the middle one to be clicked in place.

I find this too, but don't often use it for very wet things like sauce.

The other design flaw imo is that the cutting blade is too far from the feed tube so I'm always left with big lumps of e.g. carrot or cheese when grating. Annoying! Maybe they all do this though.

Thank you, I'll try that then.
Yes I thought I'd be using it all the time to justify the price - soups... sauces... smoothies... all those Jamie Oliver recipes... but alas, I find it a bit of a faff

I mainly use it for grating large amounts of something, making ice cream, making crumble mix, making pastry (not that often since DC2 haha) and kneading bread or dough for pizza - for this I wouldn't be without it! I've had mine 10 years+ and it's still going strong, so I think it has probably paid it's way by now!

Mine gets used several times a year - most often when I'm shredding red cabbage, occasionally for crumble. And yes, a lot does get wasted when I'm grating - and that's with a 13 year old model.

I hardly ever use the inside bowl - it's easier just to use the mini chopper part of my hand blender for small amounts.

It's stashed away, for now, as we're trying to sell our house!

Mine leaks in the little one as well. I still love it though. Use it most days and have had it for 6 years. Weaning foods, coleslaw, cakes, meringue but I haven't mastered the dough making in it!

We were given one as a v generous & unexpected gift and it is utter shit!

The three bowl thing drives me bonkers as every bloody time you end up needing to clean all three bowls, regardless of what you're chopping or blending in the smallest/middle bowl and it is really leaky. I mainly use it for blending soup and it's just utter rubbish - I was really surprised as it's such a name brand product.

It also came with a million accessories and no clear explanation of what they are, what they're used for or how they even attach to the flipping thing so they're just taking up tons of space I don't have.

I absolutely hate it and was recently considering (again) trying to sell it and buying something much simpler.

I really only use mine if I am cooking for a crowd. Then it is worth its weight in gold. Potatoes for a huge pommes dauphinoise sliced in seconds. Coleslaw sliced and grated for 40 people - no problem. It chops the peel for marmalade saving me hours and wrecked finger nails.

Also try making pastry by chopping butter into smallish cubes and freezing. Then blitz in the Magimix with flour, salt and a little liquid. Technically it's a shortcrust but it laminates like a rough puff with no work from you.