u/Myrkryda

Has anyone here used sous-vide with the TM7?

I have not tried it yet, but aim to this coming week. We have some beautiful steaks and I want to make sure they don't get ruined.

I've watched a couple of demo videos on YouTube, and have a couple of questions. First of all, does the water circulate adequately? Secondly, any problems with the cutter/ blade cover slicing the plastic bags? Lastly, another video I saw put the plastic bags into the steaming basket, which I thought was odd. I'd like to hear from anyone who has used this function and your experience with it. Thanks.

I got my TM7 in May, and have spent a great deal of time cooking through recipes from the Cookidoo app so as to familiarize myself with the machine and all of its abilities. I also purchased extra accessories including the cutter and sous-vide. I've made everything from baby food puree to salmon to chicken to salads. I follow every recipe exactly, making notes for potential tweaks if I make something again.

Last night I made a batch of red beans and rice. While I was getting ready to serve it, I realized the bay leaves that were included in the recipe had all crumbled in the dish due to the blade stirring action, which left us fishing out tiny bits of leaves as we were eating it. Not pleasant. It also had a ridiculous amount of salt pork AND bacon in it, which made the dish extremely greasy. It was not good.

Which then led me to realize -- the vast majority of the recipes I've tried from the app have been truly disappointing. Rubbery chicken. Macerated veggies that cook into mush. Overcooked, mushy rice. Pale, tasteless fish in the Varoma. It seems to me the recipes in the app are not created by professional cooks, not tested by professional cooks, and really geared for people who don't know how to cook (or don't understand good food) in general. The fact that users cannot leave comments for future cooks to see exacerbates the problem.

I am a woman of a certain age and have been cooking personally and professionally my entire life -- I cook, I bake, and I do most everything from scratch. I meal prep when appropriate.

I did quite a bit of research prior to purchase and thought this would be a fun, time-saving gadget to have as an extra tool in the kitchen, potentially replacing other gadgets like food processors, blenders, bread makers, and instant pots. Instead, I find myself spending more time prepping ingredients for the machine, more time cleaning up (because it quite often requires additional bowls, pans, etc.). I find it frustrating trying to remove or serve food out of the bowl with the blade in the way. The TM7 does not outperform any of the other above-listed gadgets in my kitchen, but my chief complaint is the quality of the recipes in the Cookidoo app.

I realize this post is quite negative, but I really want people who are considering spending a huge amount of money on this product to understand exactly what it can and can't do, and exactly what you're paying for if you subscribe to the Cookidoo app. Personally, I'll be canceling that subscription when it ends next month, and using AI to convert tried and true recipes and/or use manual mode in a limited way. That is disappointing because one of the major points of this machine is being able to step you through a recipe while weighing the ingredients in. Using a converted recipe in manual mode defeats that entire function.

Overall, it's a lot of money spent on an appliance that doesn't live up to the claims, or its full potential.

Can someone explain to me how to view my notes on any given recipe? They're not showing up for me in the app. Also, if I've added a note, it won't let me add another note, and I can't see my first note to edit it. What am I missing here?

Edit: just for kicks and grins I logged in to Cookidoo on my desktop computer. Notes work fine there. But 99% of the time I use my phone when searching a recipe and sending it to my TM7 - not my computer.

Wondering if anyone out in Thermomix land has made babyfoods in the TM7 (or other models). I care for my 5-month-old grandbaby and he is ready to start trying purees. Looking for insights and your experiences, and recipes are welcome!