r/thermomix

Has anyone found and perhaps can share their sourdough bread recipe for Thermomix?

By sourdough bread I mean a bread that has basic ingredients: flour, water, salt, and starter.

And by “for Thermomix” I mean no manual kneading or folding. I understand, you’d still have to shape and potentially refrigerate overnight.

I've checked a few recipes on Cookidoo, but they either skip some steps or still require stretching and folding by hand.

I'm wondering if there's a way to make sourdough in Thermomix that would not require stretching and folding manually (is the kneading function good for that?) and avoid having to deal with the dough by hand over the period of over an hour, as in traditional recipes.

Share pictures, if you have any!

Being upfront: this is a builder post — I made the app I'm about to describe. I've seen other app threads here, so I hope one more is welcome. (Mods: if this crosses a line, I'll take it down, no hard feelings.)

I posted here a few days ago asking how you all deal with figuring out what to cook — thank you to everyone who answered, it genuinely helped. It also confirmed I'm not the only one. So, full honesty: that struggle is why I've spent the last months building an app for it.

I bought a Thermomix years ago and I pretty much use it to make Rice and steam veggies. I tried Cookidoo, but the sheer amount of recipes overwhelms me — figuring out what to actually cook, and whether I even have the ingredients, is exactly the mental load I wanted the machine to remove. I have trouble getting myself to plan the whole week. It would help, but I'm tired of fighting my nature.

So I built an app for that problem. The idea is an AI cooking assistant that gets to know you — what you like, what you don't like — and figures out what to cook with you. Tell her what ingredients you have or what you're in the mood for, and she suggests or builds a Thermomix recipe and walks you through it. Her whole job is taking care of the "what do I cook tonight" problem.

I'm one person building this, trying to make a living for my family, and I'm scared to post this. It's an early beta — I'm afraid of what people will think, there are bugs, some flows are rough, the recipe library is still small. Which is exactly why I need real people (not just my mom) to try it.

I'm looking for 5 people who struggle with figuring out what to cook:

• Try it free for a week (TestFlight, iPhone — I'll set you up personally).
• Cook at least one meal with it.
• Tell me honestly what you like, what doesn't work, and whether you'd ever pay for something like this.

I need to know if I'm onto something or if I should stop wasting my time.

Comment or DM if you're up for it.

Thank you! 🙏

So our TM31 is still going strong but the Varoma lid cracked and broke this weekend. I found a steaming set for the TM5/TM6 and I’m wondering if it might fit (unfortunately no way to test before purchase). Maybe there are some longtime customers here who’ve had both models and would know if the Varoma parts (at least the lid) are interchangeable??

Thanks :)

At some point in the week I run out of food in the fridge. I'm tired, stressed and don't want to cook. Does anyone else have this problem? How do you deal with it?

I thought the Thermomix would rescue me but I find that I'm not using it to it's potential. I find the Cookidoo not that useful for me because I find it hard to choose recipes, and I usually don't have the ingredients i need for the recipe.

Please share with me how you deal with managing food in the house.

Any tips and advice would be appreciated!

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.

Hi everyone 👋
I’m one of the creators of Dlishe, a recipe app designed to make discovering and creating recipes much easier.
You can browse recipes in the app, or create your own from a photo, video, text, voice note, link or simply an idea. Dlishe structures the recipe for you and can also help you bring your personal recipes into Cookidoo without having to rewrite everything manually.
We recently started welcoming Thermomix consultants and recipe creators who are testing Dlishe, sharing recipes and helping us improve the experience for the Thermomix community.
We’re still at the beginning, so I’d genuinely love to hear from people here:
What would make an app like this genuinely useful for you as a Thermomix user?

I've been thinking of making a service that would let you paste any recipe URL (or text/photo/PDF) and have it automatically converted into a Cookidoo recipe with proper Thermomix settings, then uploaded to your account. It would work with things like ChatGPT or Claude.

I was wondering would any of you actually use this? If so, would you pay for it? What would you pay? Reply here or DM me with your thoughts, thanks for any feedback I really appreciate it!

We just dropped our daughter in college and we are considering giving her our old TM6 to solve her cooking needs. She does not it fish or very elaborated things. I am just looking for recipes with few ingredients, easy and quick to make, teenage-pleasing, thermomix-contained (no need to use a second appliance or device) and nutritious. Any recommendations? My goal is to create a weekly meal plan that she can cook consistently, with easy-to-find ingredients in any supermarket in the US. I think TM has such a great potential for kids in college who can't cook but need to eat well. It's just a matter of finding a good set of simple recipes they can consistently cook.

Hi everyone, what would you recommend for 4 adults and 4 kids. I know lasagna is a good option but what else? Thank you

I’ve had my TM6 since well before COVID and most meals worked pretty well when my daughter still lived with me, we would pack left overs for lunch.

Now I am by myself 😁

I know I can adjust the portion size on most recipes and do use this.

Looking for some delicious meal ideas because I end up doom scrolling recipes on Cookidoo.

Thanks in advance!

If your goal is to save time, it's not worth it.

It doesn't save you time. It doesn't chop evenly. It still requires other basic appliances to fulfill recipes. The measuring out ingredients takes so much longer than just pulling them out as you go.

To blend batters:

You can use a blender and you still need other appliances to bake it and/ or fry the batter so spending $1700 on a blender is not worth it

It takes 40x longer to measure everything to the recipes using its scale vs just putting ingredients together in a dish and quickly mixing it with a fork

The "30 second" mixing settings or whatever doesn't really give me much time to "multi task," so I stand there waiting for it to mix the way I would by hand anyways

The cook while it steams; any regular pot can do this

"It chops," yes, but its not evenly chopped like my knife would. It chops just as my blender would. It doesn't actually shred anything, certain salads are highly based on the texture of the veggies so when your carrots are chunkier than other pieces of carrots or cabbage is bruised from being thrown around in the blender, it's not actually helpful.

It doesnt cook faster. An instapot does 900x of a better job than my tm7 when cooking thoroughly. It heats up faster, it cooks faster, and it requires less water.

I'm trying to understand the hype but I feel like i lost out money. I have a handful of kids and it's not saving me time, i feel like im standing there pressing buttons and looking at screens more than actually having my hands freed up.

***to add, the sautee option actually takes longer most of the time than an actual frying pan would because it lets out so much veggie juice during the "chop" process

For instance; my onion diced by a knife isnt dripping in onion juice as my TM leave my onion so to sautee it, it nearly cooks it in oil rather than caramlizing it on a frying pan

Does something like this exist? Thank you.

Hi. Does anyone know where I can buy the thermomix TM7 in Malta, please?

How has your experience been with Thermomix customer service?

I have both a TM5 and TM6.

Recently sent both off for repairs. My TM6 started tripping every time I wanted to spin with heat. So contacted Service and shipped it off. I’ve had it for like 4-5 years so I knew I was gonna have to pay for repairs.
When I shipped it off they gave me a lot of reasons to why the issue I had happened. I moved forward with Repair that was like $150.

I get it back and I am excited to use it again, then guess what? The same issue persists.
I contact service through the same email thread I had with them and after following up 2 times no response what so ever.

I finally call and get ahold of someone and they get me to ship it off again. They will review it free of charge.

I get a response today of them saying nothing is wrong with it and that it works just fine.
Their proof of it working “just fine” is a picture of it on the Vorwerk screen when you click the button to turn it on. Pretty frustrating.

Prior to sending it off a second time I sent them videos of when and how it was tripping. A video from them would have been great to know that it is definitely something on my end.

I have been without my TM6 for about 2 months now. It makes life a whole lot easier.