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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: gladygirl on May 29, 2011, 03:09:09 am

Title: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: gladygirl on May 29, 2011, 03:09:09 am

After going to a demo I was hooked on TM. Obsessed really. I really wanted a TM but could not afford one, living on a student allowance (my husband just went back to school) and with a toddler at home. So I sold almost all of my kitchen appliances and bought a used TM3300 from Germany. Crazy really as I live in NZ. I just had to have one. I am happy to say that my TM3300 arrived yesterday and I'm so excited. I have already made cashew butter, coconut cream, gridded some coffee beans, made custard and cant wait to keep on using it. I still want a new TM31, but for now I am content.

Does anyone know if I can make bread dough with this model? Anyone who still owns a tm3300 and want to give me some advise or recipes that would be great? Otherwise I'll just be experimenting for the time being.

Cheers
Gladygirl

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: faffa_70 on May 29, 2011, 03:15:19 am

Hi Gladygirl, congratulations and welcome.

You should PM Tim (mindmapper) as he also has one. His introduction is on the link below  ;)

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5606.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5606.0)

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: judydawn on May 29, 2011, 07:20:16 am

Hi Gladygirl, good for you.  You've got your foot in the door until you can afford the latest model but I'm sure you will do well with the one you have.  Just ask if you have any questions, I'm sure someone will come to your aid.

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: johnro on May 29, 2011, 07:33:23 am

Hi Gladygirl and welcome to the forum - your reaction to the thermie introduction is very understandable - great initiative shown.  Your family will be most appreciative and you will have so much satisfaction in using and hence learning of the wonders of this amazing little beast. 

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: cookie1 on May 29, 2011, 08:41:26 am

Welcome Gladygirl. You are certainly an enterprising person.

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: Cornish Cream on May 29, 2011, 11:12:52 am

Hi and welcome to the forum Gladygirl. :)

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: Very Happy Jan on May 30, 2011, 01:21:02 am

Hello and a warm welcome Gladygirl.

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: milnead on May 30, 2011, 07:18:02 am

I have this from an old Italian book for TM3300:

Bread and pizza dough:
400 g flour
40 g yeast
1 measure of milk (I think it's the knob thingy)
1 1/2 measures of warm water
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt to taste (2 tsp?)

Put water, mik, olive oil and yeast in bowl, mix on speed 1 for 2 seconds.
Running on speed 1, slowly pour flour and salt down hole in cover. Work for 20 seconds at speed 5. Remove from bowl and let rest 1/2 hour before using.
Then you make several balls (no number mentioned), cut a cross on centre with sharp knife, put on baknig sheet about 20 minutes more. Bake at 220ºC 15 minutes, then at 180ºC 20 more minutes (looks long to me...). And I'd brush with olive oil. There are some variants (adding 50 g raw spinach leaves to the water at the beginning, a red one substituting tomato juice for half the water, with olives (add 15 black olives at the end and operate 2 sex. on speed 1). There you have it. The olive bread is baked in a round mold with a hole in the center (tube mold).

Pizza dough
350 g flour
1 cube yeast (40g)
1 tablespoon oil
2 measures of water
2 teaspoons salt

Instructions same as previous. No further info given. I haven't tried them (my machine is TM31.

Hope they work out. There are also focacce, brioche, etc.

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: trudy on May 30, 2011, 08:07:59 am

Welcome to the forum, and good luck with your new purchase!!!

Title: Re: Hello from a new TM owner and user
Post by: Frozzie on May 30, 2011, 12:06:19 pm

hi and welcome gladygirl...there are a couple of people with that thermomix model on here...but im sure you could adapt some other recipes once you get hte hang of it...