Forum Thermomix
Questions Doubts and Requests => Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: korrick on November 16, 2011, 10:48:57 pm
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Hi everyone, I posted this question in another area - I think it should be here. Can someone tell me the rules!! (if any) when the MC should be left on or off during cooking. I take it off when sauteeing but don't know what I should do at other times. I think the rule is when you want to reduce the liquid you leave off but sometimes that isn't always obvious in the recipe. Could someone please let me know a simple 'rule of thumb' so that I can apply it to all recipes. Thanks
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You've pretty well got it worked out there korrick. Recipes will generally say when to take it off, if not then it is on. I sautee with it on and take it off to reduce the liquid & also have it off for beating egg whites to incorporate some air into the mixture.
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Ditto. Judy can you do egg whites in the TMX now? Clever lady. I'm too scared to try.
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Yes Cookie, the heat method works for me. Butterfly in/37o/speed 3.
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I have some egg whites if the freezer left over from icecream so I'll have to give it a go. May not be until we get back from Melbourne as I have a sourdough class on Saturday and I'm going to Tenina's class on Tuesday night.
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My MC was mainly off a few months ago because i could never find it without my glasses on, since then i have paint red dots with nail polish so now i can see it without my glasses ;D
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They are elusive Uni, great idea.
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I do the same with my favourite knives that sit in the wooden block thing ;D
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I have no trouble finding the MC but I do have a problem locating the glasses. Don't suppose the red dot would work there though.
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lol Deniser
well yes i have green glasses which are easier to find than black or brown ones , my next pair will be bright yellow
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i am really confused with korrick profile picture is that obbie, did i miss something while i was gone ???
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You're the second person who's asked that question - i just picked a standard picture from the list, maybe I need to change it!!!! so that you all stop getting confused. I'll do it now.
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what list korrick ???
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there's a standard list of photos in the profile section of this forum - i picked it from there, so it is possible to have several members with same photo. I have inserted another photo so there shouldn't be any more confusion. :)
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I am an idiot, all of this time i thought it was a picture of obbie (Robyn) ;D
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Your not alone Uni
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;D thanks
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I was the same, Uni, I just couldn't understand how some many people looked exactly alike!!
Talking about losing your glasses. I lost mine well and truly one day and it didn't matter where I hunted I simply couldn't find them - in the end, and quite by accident, I found them in the fridge! I conceded defeat and immediately went down to the optometrists and purchased one of those chains that you slip onto the arms of your glasses and you can then hang them around your neck so you always know where your specs are! Getting more and more like a granny every day :(
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It's amazing how many things get 'lost' as we get older. I'm sure there are gremlins in our house, it couldn't be me now, could it :-)) :P :P ;) ;)
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Oh the gremlins visit often here. The mc gets lost, i used to use my hand for short jobs but now i have 2 bowls I am ok.
I have 2 pairs of glasses 1 are consitantly lost, only look for those when the other pair s lost, ds is always searching. Have to ring my mobile about 3 times a week to locate that too..LOL ;D
H :)
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We have the gremlins too. At the moment DH has lost his reading only glasses so he has to use his multi focals to drill out screws on the old car. (they have over 80 years of rust on them). I guess they will turn up.
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OH didn't exactly lose his glasses but he did say he was worried about his eyesight deteriorating until he realised he had put on an old pair. :D :D
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OH didn't exactly lose his glasses but he did say he was worried about his eyesight deteriorating until he realised he had put on an old pair. :D :D
Now that is funny :D :D :D
Always losing my reading glasses,they are never where I think they should be :-)) :-))
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gremlins here too!! i often lose things and for the life of me cant find them then months later i find it where I am sure I looked at least a thousand times....im convinced the gremlins just put it back lol!
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Well, I'm up to my neck in report writing, the adrenaline is kicking in and I spent two hours looking for my mobile phone today so I could ring a friend to tell her I was too behind to go for a walk with her. I was almost in tears after two hours about wasting so much time and also having lost my phone. My husband found it for me. In my handbag. Frozzie I'm sure a gremlin put it back as it wasn't there when I looked!!
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Was ur phone on silent Lelly, i hope so ;D
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No, it was flat, as it turns out >:(!!
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Back to the MC discussion - I just work it out from what I am cooking and what I would do if I was using a saucepan or frying pan. If you want it to reduce you take it off if not then dont. I think I am getting the hang of the beast :)
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Well, I'm up to my neck in report writing, the adrenaline is kicking in and I spent two hours looking for my mobile phone today so I could ring a friend to tell her I was too behind to go for a walk with her. I was almost in tears after two hours about wasting so much time and also having lost my phone. My husband found it for me. In my handbag. Frozzie I'm sure a gremlin put it back as it wasn't there when I looked!!
That happens to me at least once a week! I swear the bag eats it and then spits it out again just to keep me in my place. And I regularly have to phone myself to find whatever other obscure location I've left it. Once it was the freezer ... :-))