I wonder why vorwerk wasn't more upfront about the new model and  decide to give potential buyers the option to get TM31 at a lower price or opt for TM 5 (rather like car yards do when a new model car comes out). Win-win for Thermomix buyers everywhere if they had done that - gets rid of old stock and no potential buyer feels cheated.

Precisely.  Had I known, I would have waited.  Instead I have paid top dollar for an already out of date model.  All very well banging on about iPhones and the like.  We expect them to be upgraded regularly, but there wasn't so much as a whisper that an new model was imminent, like a matter of weeks away in my case.  Poor show in my view.

I am furious that the company did not tell me that a new model was imminent when I purchased mine only three months ago. I would have waited.  Whilst I love my machine,  I would have preferred to have been given the option not to buy one that was about to become obsolete.  

This has gone down like a lead balloon in the UK, where facebook pages are positively buzzing with indignation.

I think the company have done themselves a great deal of damage.

Where to start?  Fruit sorbet and asparagus rissotto  take my fancy .  I've also ordered the Gluten Free  cook book  and have been stocking up on all sorts of weird and wonderful grains as I want to  make my own gf bread.

It is easily done I know.  I moderate a forum and once managed to delete an entire section when  chatting on the phone and trying to delete some very rude spam.  Multi tasking is beyond me!

I have a query about the sugar.  Is it granulated, caster or icing sugar?  The cake sounds delicious. x