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so what was your favourite...
« on: January 05, 2009, 08:51:13 pm »
cooking appliance before you got your tmx and fell in love for real  ;D :D :-*

mine was probably just my pie maker which i use a few times in winter (and which the tmx doesn't replace lol) i'm finding it har dto recall life BT !!!!

i still have all my appliance unused in the cupboard, i really must sell them lol
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 10:41:27 pm »
My bread maker and I still have and love it (but the TM31 is definitely the favourite now).  I have a dodgy oven so the bread maker still gets a workout.  It also makes fantastic jam but I'll try out apricot jam in the TM31 this week as I have an abundance of apricots.  I'll post the recipe if it works.......

I sold all of my unused appliances as one lot and got $90.  It's certainly decluttered the appliance cupboard and the kitchen bench.
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 11:02:07 pm »
hi karen, good to see you back!
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 11:39:59 pm »
Hmmmm.  Define appliance.  If they fit the definition, I'd say my knives :)



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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 11:45:38 pm »
i was thinking electrical but knives are good lol
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2009, 01:15:13 am »
Toss up between my Magimix (Robot Coupe for you Warren) that I have had for 30 years - and still strong.
It mixes, blends, chops, grates, shreds, juliennes, slices (plain & crinkle cut), makes potato straws, has a juice attachment, has a citrus press attachment.

But then my Kitchen Aid with pasta roller, slicer/grater and mincer and sausage making attachments - more fun lately.  I still use both as the TMX won't slice, and the pasta roller/cutter lets you use both hands for feeding into the rollers.  :D
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2009, 01:31:47 am »
My favourite machine by far was the bread machine.  I have had it for 10 years and it is still going strong - just not often now!
I can make a fresh loaf of bread or a batch of pizza dough much faster in the TM than in my bread machine.  I still use it to bake bread if it is a ery hot day and I don't want to heat the kitchen up too much.
My second favourite is my Kitchen Aid and I still use it for pavlova.  I don't think that the TM can beat the egg whites properly.
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 01:44:35 am »
Toss up between my Magimix (Robot Coupe for you Warren) that I have had for 30 years -

Those original Robot Coupes were really great machines :)  When my TM arrived, I packed away my Cuisinart DCLX

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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 06:09:37 am »
This is a hard thing to reply to. I have packed away the rice cooker and even the bread machine and also my food processor.  I still have my handy Sunbeam hand held mixer ready and available so I'd say this would have to be my favourite as I still use it quite a lot.
Oh dear, I've posted on every Chit Chat topic, it looks greedy.  Perhaps someone else will do the same.
It's a great idea so thanks to all those who arranged it.
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2009, 10:01:18 am »
LOL cookie, chat away, we love it!
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2009, 12:34:11 pm »
LOL cookie, chat away, we love it!

That's what the section is for  ;D
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2009, 01:47:55 pm »
My fave was {surprise, surprise} my Steam Oven...here I am admitting out loud, that I hardly use the darn thing anymore...here's hoping my DH doesn't stumble across this posting! :-\

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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2009, 07:18:21 pm »
 ;D te he, Tenina!

Mine WAS the bread machine, which is now packed away.  I also have a Remoska, which is fantastic.  I loved it before the TM, and love it even more now, as it's a marriage made in heaven!  Things which need baking, I whip up in the TM, and transfer to the Remoska.  Very, very rare that I use oven or anything else.  It's pretty much all sorted between the Remoska and the TM.

For those who haven't heard of them (although apparently they are exported to Oz), they are a Czeck gizzmo, which is like a strange frying pan on your countertop - except that it's an oven, which uses as much electricity as a light bulb.  So VERY economical / environmentally friendly.  Plus, it works better than an oven.  I don't know why, but it does.  Cakes are better.  Everything I've tried has been better than in the oven.

You can see one here http://www.hoorayforhomecooking.co.uk/ and a video here http://www.lakeland.co.uk/standard-remoska!REG-electric-cooker/F/C/pots-pans-remoska//productvideo/2511?returnURL=/standard-remoska!REG-electric-cooker/F/C/pots-pans-remoska/product/2511, should you be interested  ;D
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2009, 08:49:23 pm »
i have never heard of the remoska or the steam oven!

the remoska looks fantastic - except you can only cook one thing at a time in it?
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Re: so what was your favourite...
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2009, 11:14:20 pm »

  I also have a Remoska, which is fantastic.  

For those who haven't heard of them (although apparently they are exported to Oz),


From an environmental point of view they sound great.  I don't use the oven much because I hate using that much energy for small meals.  So, I generally combine things when baking/roasting.

It may well be like the Thermomix - I have not seen it in stores and a quick search in Google is not promosing.  :(

Thanks for the heads up.
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