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« on: January 07, 2013, 04:16:15 am »
We might be in a TM cult, who here has made their own natural, healthy kool-aid  I've made and shared my cordial and friends and family love it 
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« on: December 19, 2012, 11:05:48 pm »
Thanks It seems like a great idea, I was just a bit worried! I'm so very protective of my thermie 
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« on: December 19, 2012, 02:09:07 am »
Hi All, I thought we weren't meant to be making the dishwasher powder in our thermies anymore, however I was just over on the recipe community which the thermomix australia site points me to and this recipe is on there: http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/recipes/eco-dishwasher-powder/51265Is this an error or is this recipe actually ok to use? Thanks all
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« on: October 08, 2012, 12:51:19 pm »
Thanks Cookie, Gert is going to send me hers. Once I've read through I'm thinking I can pass it on, it'll be fun to share with other newbies here. All I want is to learn how to use the Varoma properly, I've never really used a steamer, and to really maximinse my thermie. It's a shame that HO won't offer proper hands-on varoma classes or anything more than the back to basics, so I'm quite serious about signing up with Uni if she starts, I'd love to get more out of this machine If Uni's not interested and someone wants to do so in Sydney I'm totally interested in everything that Snappy said "I really wish there was someone in Sydney doing thermomix classes - I don't want to do another back to basics I want a pastry/desserts class, a pasta class, a bread making class, a macaroon making "
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« on: October 08, 2012, 11:21:46 am »
I'm seriously in Uni Any way I can help I'm happy to do so!
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« on: October 08, 2012, 07:28:21 am »
I'm in Ryde, sounds like I'm pretty close
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« on: October 08, 2012, 07:14:21 am »
Hi Gert, I've just IM'd you. Reading through the forum this afternoon I've realised two things. One, I'm clearly not the first and only who feels this way about the demonstrations. It sounds like a lot of us treat out demonstrators better than HO does We'd rather miss out than rip off the demonstrators by having them attend when we know it's a waste of their time. Secondly, if any of you ladies are in Sydney and want to hold a class I'm totally signing up!
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« on: October 08, 2012, 04:54:32 am »
Thank you ladies, I really appreciate the suggestions and Obbie has contacted me which is really nice. You are all so lovely - thank you. I will check out the all-in-one meals, I've not used the varoma yet and it's been close to a year - I'm feeling a bit nervous, I think I'll just have to jump in and try it - after all every fail teaches me something to not do next time  I was feeling bad about the thought of wasting my demonstrators time so it's nice to have you all to fall back on! Maybe I'll have to try a desert, if it doesn't work out I can always make it into a trifle 
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« on: October 08, 2012, 04:31:19 am »
Thank you Fundj, I really appreciate that I'm determned to master the Varoma!!!
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« on: October 08, 2012, 04:17:18 am »
Hi Suzanne, that's a good idea to ask her to get it if she's doing another demo somewhere. Hi CreamPuff, thanks for the review it sounds good. The problem is I've never used the varoma and really not sure about it. I figured some tried and true recipes would help me to become more confident. I'll definitely browse the forum again and pick some things to try. Bonus of the forum is that if I get stuck I'm sure someone will have some great advice I could buy the book on ebay for $80 now or join a bidding war, which doesn't attract me at all. Maybe I should buy a full set of all the books, pick my favourite recipes and then on-sell the books on ebay, the way some of the prices are going I could make a fortune I'm just too lazy to bother though
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« on: October 08, 2012, 03:52:01 am »
Wanting to get thoughts\opinons. I'd really love to know what you think I really want to get the full-steam ahead cookbook however it seems I have to have a demo. There's a part of me that is annoyed that after spending thousands I'm expected to have a demo - and to what purpose for thermomix to try to sell to my friends\family a machine that they've made clear they aren't interested in. All for me to get a book that will give me some recipes to get full use of the machine. My quandary is this, my demonstrator is lovely and helpful. My family\friends are not interested\not going to buy a thermomix. My initional demonstration was interesting only to me and not to friends\family. Unfortunately I invited more than the minimum group - I should have saved some up for subsequent demos How wrong is it to have a demonstration, knowing that I'm wasting a lovely persons time\money for the sole purpose of me being able to buy a book, especially seeing that my friends\family would mostly ignore her. I find it goes against what I feel is right, I'm thinking of asking head office to assign me someone awful so I won't feel bad about wasting their time. Or do I suck it up and have a waste-of-time demo?
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« on: September 10, 2012, 06:21:14 am »
I love our new Neff oven - we ordered from Europe cause it was much less than half price even with duty, taxes and shipping and it arrived in less than a month. After checking a number of forums the Aussie service folk aren't the best and there are a number of individual contractors who will service it for us. The best part is the retractable door No more worrying about burning an arm when lifting something heavy in or out, this and the internal size being large enough for a proper roast sold me on it.
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« on: August 31, 2012, 03:33:11 am »
Hi Yvette, I'm thinking that you could try it on reverse speed, you are right about not getting 4 steaks in the basket.
I'd be worried without the basket that the vacuum sealed package might get caught on a blade and tear, that would kind of ruin it. Even on reverse it would be very full and thus more likely for a package to get caught - and those blades are sharp!
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« on: August 31, 2012, 03:06:56 am »
Judy after all I've learnt here it's great to be able to share something with you all! Yvette I thought it was eye fillet, however my DH who actually got it out of the freezer said it was prime rib fillet which he had vacuum sealed into 2 separate little bags. We could have done it in the one bag but it didn't fit in the basket too well. Now that I know it wasn't eye fillet I'm evey more impressed! I'm thinking that I'll try a citrussy chicken next for a salad - I'll definitely take photo's of the next efforts. It really was so easy
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« on: August 31, 2012, 02:01:23 am »
The meat was amazingly tender, no toughness to it at all, even more though it was so flavoursome. I seared quickly because I prefer the look and taste of the outside to be caramelised. I didn't vacuum seal the meat with any other liquid because I knew I was making the green peppercorn sauce and couldn't decide what a nice marinade might be with it. As this was my first time I also wanted to make it a fair test by just trying it plain, if it gave the meat a weird taste I wanted to be able to pick up on it. Turns out my fears were for nought - there aren't words to describe just how good it was. I put the vacuum-sealed meat into the basket and then filled the jug up with water. Took the basket out, brought the temp to 70 degrees, put the basket in, waited for temp to come back to 70 degrees, set the timer for 60 minutes. Took it out, seared the meat, then let it rest while I made the sauce - so very tasty and good! I actually had the leftover meat in sauce for breakfast this morning, and even cold it was still so tender and tasty, I barely needed to chew ! I'm so happy that it was such a success!!! I'm thinking for a chicken salad that I'd marinate the chicken breast with a citrus sauce, yummy! You could probably do a lemon\dill mix for salmon as well. I'm going to try everything that i can fit in the basket Next time I'll definitely take pics to share.
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