Thermomix Fails! Share Yours!

[Amy :-)]

A second or two can make a huge difference when making whipped cream too , I may of had this experience before. Not much fun when you don't have any cream left to start again lol.

Maybe you werent meant to have cream that day Mandi

[dede]

No I don't think so Amy, but on the up side DH enjoyed is butter

[Amy :-)]

No I don't think so Amy, but on the up side DH enjoyed is butter

There's always a silver lining

[knittercook]

Failure would definitely be my coleslaw soup. Don't over chop on high speeds

Yeah, I don't bother trying coleslaw anymore.  I don't know what I do, but it either turns out mush or some of the ingredients are just right but the carrot is still too chunky.

So, what's the secret to getting vegetables to the finely cut stage?  Mine are always mush or too chunky.

I make my coleslaw by chopping 2 - 3 seconds speed 4 and continue until it is fine but not soup, usually 3 - 4 times and you really need to chop your carrots into small pieces first by hand.

[EmeraldSue]

I have a Thermo Chef, and I remember the first time I cooked some chicken using the "varoma " temperature.
I couldn't work out what the correct conversion was so I cooked it at 100C, Thinking that this was the highest temperature. Needless to say, after the allotted 15 or 20 minutes of cooking the chicken was still raw and my family was hungry. Luckily I had my pressure cooker handy and continued the recipe in my PC, and it turned out well in the end.
BTW, I should have used the "cook" button as this is the TC equivalent of Varoma.

[teagg]

One of my first demos.... When three of the four guests didn't turn up.... And I proceeded to make the demo risotto for my one and only guest, who was in a riush too.... Only to discover that I hadn't turned the heat on....thankfully she had twenty minutes more, so I was able to re-do it, with the heat on.. Ah well....
Only do it once though....
 

[desi]

The worst disaster I had was when I made quince paste for the second time. The first time was successful, but the second time  I didn't read the instructions well and used half the amount of liquid I was supposed to use. The result was a mass of solid toffee wrapped around the blades which it was difficult to remove. I did learn the lesson to read the instructions well and the paste was perfect the third time