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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Re: Recipe Reviews from the new edition of the EDC 2013
« on: March 17, 2014, 11:38:10 am »
Have gone through three new recipe books in 5 years! I find the quality of the paper and makeup so poor for quite a high price that I now prefer my collection of print outs from the Internet! As for mistakes... well that is par for the course in many  recipe books.... Proof readers are not chefs!  Usually.... shame


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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Re: Repair costs and protocol...
« on: March 17, 2014, 11:27:41 am »
Had some problems closing the lid and switching on... found that the ring inside the lid had perished in one small place... mended it with super glue very carefully and turned the ring around as its the same both sides.... seems OK now! The perished bit was kinking when I turned the lid so it would not turn on at all.
I have had my Thermomix around 5 years now and use it every day as a professional chef... Have had two blades 'strip' and replaced them but now have ordered a whole new bowl lid and blade etc. It's expensive bur I need it! Just wish I could get the blades repaired!!! at least I would have back up.

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Re: Thermomix TM21 won't switch on!
« on: March 17, 2014, 10:57:07 am »
If you have power and still cannot turn on try checking the lid rim ring. If it gets a kink in it you may find it impossible to set the on off switch.... I had that problem! took forever to work out.


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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: December 27, 2009, 02:15:52 pm »
Lasagna and shepherds pie for the staff lunch at work here and tonight a Fish Souffle for His Highness...just making some icing for carrot cake for the staff tea....Busy little bee I am this holiday...worked right through Christmas with my trusty assistant TM...except it's weights and measure facility seems to have gone AWOL suddenly!

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Chit Chat / Re: When things go wrong, they keep going wrong...
« on: December 27, 2009, 02:12:40 pm »
Last time I cooked beans that wouldn't soften I checked the pack...they were 3 years out of date!! EVEN THOUGH I ONLY BOUGHT THEM THE WEEK BEFORE.....Won't be shopping at that health food store again....oop's just been told it has closed down....not surprised!



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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Weighing problems
« on: December 27, 2009, 01:53:24 pm »
I am having problems with weighing ingredients with one of my TM bowls...the other seems fine but the problem is intermittent. Has anyone else found this and is there a solution?

 

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello
« on: November 09, 2009, 12:10:06 pm »
Thanks for your welcome..I am using the UK recipe book...I believe it is the latest published here. I also have the French book A Table avec Thermomix which I have so far found perfect except the Hollandais. There is no way the picture of it was made with that recipe!

I am a fanatic about recipes and publications that miss bits out making people use expensive ingredients without getting promised results.

I spent many years re-writing recipes from a well known magazine in UK that had so many mistakes....I would publish them in my delicatessen with the corrected version and an example of the cooked item...I was amazed how many people had been dissapointed and felt very sad for them as the magazine was very up market with very expensive ideas.

You don't get mistakes with Julia Child so why do so many publishers make them even these days.

I wish I could transform all Julia's recipes for Thermomix :)

Fay

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Introduce Yourself / Hello
« on: November 08, 2009, 11:34:01 am »
I am a professional Personal Chef and have recently acquired a Thermomix and am coming to terms with it gradually.

My husband who is a notorious non-vegetable eater has been consuming fantastic vegetable soups every lunchtime..all of our garden produce is used up instead of languishing in the basket and he has lost 3 lb in weight just by eating vegetables at lunchtime in the past 3 weeks.
I am very very happy with my Thermomix but not at all happy with one or two recipes in the book. I have been severely embarrassed by the Hollandaise sauce recipe for a start!.....Hollandaise sauce needs the butter melted first you cannot do it with cubes no matter how small....I got caught at one of my daughter's functions when I was practicing demonstrating the machine.....the awful oily gloop that came out after following the recipe was highly embarrassing. I did however manage to save the day...it was a special occasion...by whisking all the egg whites stiff and adding the Hollandaise disaster slowly to these. I finished this off by hand and the foaming hollandaise was a great success.....There were 40 people at her celebration and thank goodness no one really saw the original hollandaise.

Please please let's have a disclaimer to this recipe in the book. I don't think I am the only one who has found this problem.

I look forward to reading all the posts here and getting some new ideas.

Best wishes

Fay

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