I congratulate all in the US who have triumphed over the arcane and inscrutably irrational marketing strategies of Vorwerk and acquired a "31" in the 240 volt configuration so tantalisingly discussed by the eminent Raymond Sokolov in the May 1 Wall Street Journal.  Wow!!!  After fruitlessly wending my way through various "official" contact numbers and sites only to end up repeatedly at the same end-point to hear or read that "you cannot have it in the US", I finally got one on order, boarded a plane, picked up the machine from the concierge at my hotel, checked in for my return flight, brought the machine and its invoice to customs at the airport in Europe, received my VAT refund certificate, went through airport security and boarded my plane--all without a hitch.  Once in the US, however, TSA felt constrained to open the factory sealed carton and examine the machine and the sum of the parts--coincidentally, my first view of the "31" itself.  That was the only rough patch and only in the sense that I missed a connecting flight.  For the first time, I could see why Mr. Sokolov had to deploy his pliers and scissors to create a connector that would fit his US outlet.  The short electrical cord that comes with the machine is probably the only design flaw. 

I am interested to hear from users of favorite recipes and any particular problems that they may have had to deal with in fine tuning recipes from existing texts.  I am still in the process of preliminarily adjusting some recipes to take into consideration the fact that my state is more that a mile above sea level.  I will keep you informed.

By the way, if you have had similar experiences to mine in bringing in a "31" and wish to share them with us, I would me more than pleased to hear from you.

RudiOfWyo