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Questions Doubts and Requests => Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide => Topic started by: Greyhoundmum on June 21, 2012, 02:12:14 pm
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As a new owner I am wondering if I am using the spatula the right way. I have only used the TMX a couple of times and the Spatula is looking a bit chewed! I hope the little bits of plastic are not in my food? I don't think it helps that I am left handed. Any tips on this one? Any left handlers also find the spatula awkward or getting mashed up?
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Hi Greyhoundmum. I was pretty excited earlier this year when a left-handed lady remarked to me at a demonstration that she found the spatula easy to use. I shared that on the forum but got howled down by my left-handed colleagues:
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=9031.0
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I have a supply of inexpensive Ikea silicon spatulas that I will use instead as I don't want to ruin my TM spatula so soon! I guess we are all individual. Any other newbies with a chewed up spatula?!!
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I actually don't use the TM spatula unless I'm using it while the machine is running. I have several spoon style spatulas and a few narrow Rubbermaid spatulas that I use constantly. I am left handed but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. The other spatulas just work better for me.
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yeah, mine has a few nicks in it, I would say it's quite normal. (FTR, I'm right handed)
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I've got both the TMX and Helen's spatula but find they both have their shortcomings. I always reach for a cheap silicon one I bought in a pack of three at Aldi. If I'm wanting to use one while TMX is running I always use the official TMX one.
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We would all have nicks in our TMX spatula GHM and like the other girls, I only use it if I have to stir something whilst the machine is running. Any silicon spatula is far better to remove food from the bowl, whether it be this (http://thermomix.superkitchenmachine.com/products/super-silicone-spatula) one Helene sells on her blog or one from a kitchen shop. I have 9 different spatulas and at times they are all in the dishwasher :-))
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I use other spatulas unless I have to stir while the TM is running. So my spatula was in good condition.
Then I had a Varoma demo and the demonstrator destroyed it! It was completely wrecked. I don't know
what he did. I told him and asked for a new one which he provided for free.
For every day use I like Helene's spatulas the best. I have one for savoury and one for sweet stuff.
The savoury one already has a few nicks even though I am very careful (but I am left-handed). I think it is inevitable
and not worth worrying about (same as the smell in the lid). I just bought ten of them to last me for quite a while, although
I did give my daughter two of them.
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I'm left handed and only use the spatula when I'm cooking in the TMX and I need to stir while the machine is going. I have a heap of narrow spatulas that I use and love . I love Helene's too and even that is getting a few nicks. I think it is part of TMXing.