Hi from the UK

[Thermomixer]

Hi fannyadams - you have to admit there is a bit more activity here than on other English-speaking Thermomix forums 

The TMX is really BIG in Spain - there are lots more consultants - check out the conventions that are for the consultants at http://www.vorwerk.com/es/thermomix/html/rallies.html.

Their head - Teresa Barrenechea has even done 20 TV programs (in Spanish - but you can get the gist).

In Spain and Italy it is seen as an essential piece of kitchen equipment, whereas here my friends think I have too much time and money because I bought one.

Now that Warren has one it should move in the US  , at least it's a start.  I just can't believe they haven't moved there.

[CarolineW]

Hi Fanny Adams,
and welcome!  Lovely to have another UKer here    I have to agree with what others have said - it's been very slow over the holiday period.  Everyone very busy, and lots of people ill    There is usually quite a lot of activity, I would say.  But not compared to Italy or Spain or Germany, of course!  It's all too nascent in the English speaking countries for that.  We're getting there, though!  And the more, the merrier.

I was thrilled to find this forum, and have found it really helpful - I hope that you do, too.  Everyone is very friendly and helpful.  I really loved my TM even before this this forum, but have been inspired to passion now.  So, I've decided to take the plunge (with lots of encouragement both from members of this forum and friends) and will be attending the Demonstrators training on Thursday!

Hopefully life will return to normal a bit next week, and I'll start posting more regularly again.  Looking forward to your conversions and recipes as you come up with them    If you're anything like me, it's a good idea to stick with the TM recipes for a while (about 4 weeks, in my case) while you get a feel for how everything works.  Then it begins to become clear how to convert some recipes.  After converting those, you start to get a bit more adventuras (I'm sure I've spelled that wrongly!).  I'm currently getting to grips with cake recipes, as they are less obvious than 'normal' cooking.  Before that it was stir frys, which took about 5 minutes to get to grips with!  I don't know why I thought it would be complicated  ).

Someone suggested having a 'conversions' thread, which is a really great idea.  In fact, why don't you start one in the suggestions section of the forum (as I did with the 'what have you cooked today?' thread) until such a time as it's moved to a more appropriate place?  Post a recipe you'd like to convert, and we'll see if we can help you out.

Have you spotted the 'show unread posts since your last visit' and 'show new replies to your posts' links next to your picture at the top of the page, yet?  It took me a while to spot those, but I find them really helpful - a fantastic idea. 

The other thing which I've found inspiring was hearing what other people have made in their day to day use of the TM - you'll find that here http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=320.0

I just want to say to the moderators, you're doing a great job, guys, and this is an amazingly active forum given how young it is!  I had no idea when I joined, as no doubt Fanny Adams hasn't either, how short a time its been going.  And the credit goes mainly to the moderators 

Meant to write a couple of sentences before taking the dog for a walk - but it turned into an essay!!!!  Sorry, Fanny!  Have fun with your TM 

[brazen20au]

i'm more than happy to help convert any recipes posted, but i have no idea how to explain how i do a conversion, i just do lol (sometimes it does fail dismally though )

and thanks caroline not that i do all that much here!

[Thermomixer]

 So, I've decided to take the plunge (with lots of encouragement both from members of this forum and friends) and will be attending the Demonstrators training on Thursday!

Congratulations and good luck - remember to tell all prospects about the forum 

I just want to say to the moderators, you're doing a great job, guys, and this is an amazingly active forum given how young it is!  I had no idea when I joined, as no doubt Fanny Adams hasn't either, how short a time its been going.  And the credit goes mainly to the moderators 

As karen has said - we don't really do a lot, and we certainly didn't start it.    Need to thank all those like yourself who keep it rolling along.

[CarolineW]

i'm more than happy to help convert any recipes posted, but i have no idea how to explain how i do a conversion, i just do lol (sometimes it does fail dismally though )

I was thinking about this in the back of my mind since posting.  This morning I came up with the idea that perhaps the way to go about it is to make a list of traditional cooking and baking techniques (eg saute, mix, cream, whisk,etc, etc) and then say how to do each of them in the TM?  Not that this would always make it plain how to convert a recipe, and some of it is in the basics section of the recipe book already, but to have it all in one place as a reference might be a good starting point.  Then any questions it didn't answer could be asked, specific to the recipe.  What do you think?  I have a 'learn to cook' book from my childhood, which probably has most of the terms in, which we could then work on converting to TM.  I'd be happy to post them if you like.

[brazen20au]

sure, we can give it a try!

[Thermomixer]

Best way IMHO to find out how to convert is ask some people who do it frequently - Italians and maybe Spaniards and Germans.

Did the photocopied pages in the Demonstrators' Delights have anything about cakes ? Probably not.

I will investigate.

[Thermomixer]

I check this forum daily, and no one seems to post anything. This is not a criticism, but surely if we are going to help each other we need feedback from the recipes posted already, and new ideas.  I am a real newbie, but when I have anything that I think others may like I will post.  I was talking to some Spanish girls this evening and the TM31 is huge in Spain, as I think we all know.  It could be big here in the UK but we need to spread the word.  My brother lives in Sydney, and he hadn't heard of the TM31, and as this forum started in Aus, we need to spread the word there too.  Come on guys, lets get posting.  I am planning to move to Aus in a few years, and my TMX is definately coming with me, whether I'll take the old man and the kids......................( )

Does anybody know what has happened to FA?  Just looking through the people who were active, but have dropped off.

[bron]

Have just read this thread Thermomixer, and can't believe that it was so inactive before, I think I joined in Jan or Feb, and I think its a very very busy site! Pleased to see that even if it was inactive once upon a time, its now THE place to be!

[Thermomixer]

....can't believe that it was so inactive before, I think I joined in Jan or Feb, and I think its a very very busy site! Pleased to see that even if it was inactive once upon a time, its now THE place to be!

Might be something to do with a Spaniard (513 posts), the cookie1 monster (530 posts), ILB (joined January - 400 posts) and somebody from Adelaide (joined December 950 posts)    and of course, the verbose moderators with 3300 posts between them    I've got to get a life 

[judydawn]

There's nothing wrong with this one Thermomixer if you are enjoying yourself    One day I will wake up and find I am 90 years old and think maybe I shouldn't have spent so much time in front of the computer but in the meantime - why not 

[brazen20au]

most of my best friends - and my dh - were gained on the internet! so for me this is real life

[bron]

Wooohoooo for internet and a big round of applause!

[cookie1]

Judy, at least when we are ninety we will be able to use the computer.

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

most of my best friends - and my dh - were gained on the internet! so for me this is real life

I hadn't really thought of the internet in that way.  You are right though.  Up until now I have thought of it as having a little play on the computer.
Chelsea