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Good luck Sue - if I can sell them - anyone can!

Hope you haven't been too thrown by your weather recently and all your people are ok xx

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Tips and Tricks / Re: List of Hints and Tips for New Owners
« on: March 19, 2011, 12:41:35 pm »
What an interesting thread - wish I'd read it earlier!
I've copied and printed the first list to give to customers - thank you!

K xx

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Like Janeezee I have read this thread with interest - but have never contributed - until now!

I have been a consultant for only 3 months. I sold my 3 in the 60 days largely as a result of the 3 month interest free deal offered to customers in December - the December 14th deadline helped enormously and so, having completed training (which i found very helpful) I found myself the recipient of a consultant kit (the bag itself is terrific) and the prospect of selling my conviction to other people. I found it quite hard to get motivated - I'm not very good at the 'hard sell' approach and felt uncomfortable touting for demos amongst my friends - however, I did it - did a few friend demos - thank you lovely friends - and managed to do one or two demos (literally) in January and February - I was feeling quite overwhelmed by the expectations of the company - selling at least one machine per month - January and February are, I believe, the most difficult months - but persevered - making the scary phone calls and striding about my deck, smiling like an idiot - you sound more confident if you're moving and smiling...... and, as I come to the middle of March - I am totally blown away by the number of people who are now calling me, out of the blue, to ask me to come and do a demo. Friends of friends of friends who have one. By the end of the month I will have done 8 demos. I've sold 4 machines and know in my heart that there are at least three other people who will buy eventually and I'm so excited by the whole thing!
I am so utterly convinced that the Thermomix is the best thing for our health and our pockets and I'm so happy each time someone else realizes this and brings one home - the commission is secondary - nice, but secondary - really!
Gosh, I've banged on like a zealot - sorry........but I'm so enthusiastic about this little gem I get a bit carried away.
Now I'm embarrassed - I will never comment again................... ;)

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I made a variation of the beef stroganoff tonight and browned the meat in a frying pan first. Made the sauce in the TM and added it for the last 15 minutes of cooking. Like others have said - I started off being so enthusiastic about cooking the whole thing in the Thermi - have now come to a compromise with him - there are some things I do better that he does, with other methods - usually browning the meat in a pan - and then he takes over. I think it's about finding the place for your Thermomix in your kitchen, in your way of cooking and working as a team. Sometimes he's just a kitchen assistant - I love to cook - but I don't love chopping onions, I can't chop garlic or parsley in one second, I'm not a big fan of standing and stirring.........we've reached a happy place in our relationship and I wouldn't exchange him for the world!
On the other hand - I let him be in charge of sauces and cake mixes. He makes the crepe batter so much better than I do and his pastry is a dream - so we're all good - he lets me do some of the things I'm better at - he does the rest!

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Chit Chat / The Thermi never dies.........!
« on: March 18, 2011, 11:59:53 pm »
Just an interesting bit of trivia......

I met a woman at a demo yesterday who's mum has had a Thermomix since the 1960s! She bought it at one of the first demonstrations held in the UK - the lady I met remembers being dragged along to the demo as a child - she describes it as a small orange machine......and her mum is still using it!!!

Is the thermomix the cockroach of the appliance world? And I mean that in the nicest possible way - when future civilizations search through the rubble ....... will they find the Thermi - happily singing it's "I'm finished now" song?

Hope so!

Just thought it was a testament to the workmanship and quality - I'll be using this story when a customer asks me "when's the next one coming out?"

Karen x

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Recipe Requests / Re: Pak Choy
« on: March 15, 2011, 07:51:32 am »
I just did an Asian demo for a Singaporean customer including pak choi - SO easy and they loved it!


Pak Choi
 
 
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Ingredients:
 
 
􏰀 300g Pak Choi
􏰀 10g Garlic or Ginger (actually, I used both!)
􏰀 10g Oil
􏰀 1 pinch salt and pepper .
Some soy, maggi seasoning or whatever you like, to serve
 
 
 
Method:     
     

1. Place garlic (or ginger) TM bowl to
chop. 2 - 5 sec.  Speed 5 ---
 
2. Add oil into TM bowl to cook.  2mins Varoma temp. Speed 3

3. Add Pak Choy, salt and pepper to cook. 4min. Varoma temp. (clockwise) Speed SOFT

Sprinkle with a little soy or similar seasoning

Serve immediately!
   

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Chit Chat / Re: Buying a Thermi in Singapore.....
« on: March 14, 2011, 12:25:32 am »
Thermoheaven - the demo started with lemonade (?!) but my Hostess wanted to see the sorbet she had heard so much about - this was actually a better dish as the crushing of the ice was very much what they wanted for Ice Kachang dishes - she hadn't found a machine that could crush the ice so evenly.....so Score 1 point right there!
Then we made steamed buns, a lovely pumpkin soup, sauteed pak choy in garlic and ginger and finished with home made soy milk - a huge success as my Hostess drinks a lot of soy milk and finds it really hard to find unsweetened milk in the shops.
She bought a Thermi and I'm delivering it tonight!

There is a new Asian book out this month - mostly Chinese dishes. I think - Alvin, one of the Australian Masterchef contestants this year has been involved. It's a March Consultant Incentive - so I guess it must be available to customers soon too. Can't wait!

I've also heard about a Malaysian book - and I want that even more!

Thanks for the help with my Singapore enquiry xxx

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Chit Chat / Buying a Thermi in Singapore.....
« on: March 12, 2011, 03:06:29 am »
Hello!

Can anyone give me information to give to a guest at a demo last week. She's from Singapore, here in Sydney visiting friends for a month. She came to a demo and LOVED the machine - it was an Asian style demo (which was hilarious all by itself - lots of new things I hadn't made before - but the host and her guests were so nice - lots of suggestions and tweaks to the recipes I'd been given.)
Anyway - this particular lady is very keen to have a demo back in Singapore and asked if I could advise her, if there is even a Singapore organisation - I'm pretty sure there is but I thought I'd ask this learned forum for some help - do you know how to go about buying a Thermi in Singapore?

Thanks guys
Karen x

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Newbie to Thermomix
« on: December 15, 2010, 02:32:11 pm »
*tapping foot*

Am still not seeing Mango Whip recipe..................................... and only a week till Christmas - more or less

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Not going to get one - Very Disappointed
« on: December 15, 2010, 02:29:09 pm »
Don't be put off by one demo - perhaps your demonstrator wasn't having a good night - in any event, I think just by spending half an hour reading the posts on this forum you can see that there are so many of us who love it and use it in all kinds of ways every day - if the only thing putting you off is the quality of the finished product that you experienced at the hands of one demonstrator, and you can see the potential in your own kitchen - then maybe arrange to go to a cooking class and give yourself the chance for a second opinion - we can't all be wrong!!

Have a happy Christmas anyway - and come back soon!

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: December 15, 2010, 02:14:39 pm »
Oooh jealous  - I would love 2 bowls!

made a killer potato salad to go with the marinated non-Thermi chicken - was about to cut some mango to go in the salad when I realised it was past it's best - quite soft and had about 10 minutes of life left in it - so I invented a mango vinaigrette dressing instead - How I love my Bimbi xxx :-))

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Chit Chat / Re: My Thermomix arrived today
« on: December 15, 2010, 02:09:57 pm »
It IS exciting Krit! I'm planning a weekend of blissful Xmas preparation - kids out - just me and my Bimbi  :-))

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Help please
« on: December 03, 2010, 02:12:23 pm »
Well?
Were they fabulous?
xx Karen x

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Introduce Yourself / Re: New Inspiration Needed!
« on: December 03, 2010, 02:07:56 pm »
Hi Margie!

One of my customers said it so well - in the daily course of cooking for the family, think how the Thermomix might help - it doesn't have to be a whole recipe - my kids needed breadcrumbs one night last week when I was out doing a demo - they didn't make the schnitzel because there were no packaged breadcrumbs in the house - I showed them how to use the Thermi to make their breadcrumbs and the light dawned - Ahhhh! it's there as a commis chef in the kitchen - it doesn't always have to be the star!

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Introduce Yourself / Re: hi
« on: December 03, 2010, 02:00:55 pm »
I had to wait 2 weeks for my baby to be delivered - we've now settled into an understanding I wish I could replicate in my private life - we love each other and learn more about each other every day!!! *sigh*

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