Small machine… BIG changes! (part 1)
I guess it is time to tell my Thermomix story.
I will make it short for now, because I don’t want to be typing — I’d rather be in the kitchen.
About a month ago, a friend showed me the Thermomix on the internet.
“What do you think of this?” he asked.
Oh. . . yawn. I was so uninterested — I almost didn’t reply. “Typical man” thought I, “gets interested in cooking when motor and blades are involved.” But when I started reading about it — curiosity took hold. The words in the online testimonials (”revolutionary”, “smart”) were somewhat in contrast with the machine’s mundane appearance… and the specs were intriguing too. I saw that Thermomix was engineered in Germany — very interesting. I’d spent time in Germany as a child and realized even then that the objects around me there were built to last and designed with careful consideration to optimal functionality. (As a kid, the playground equipment in Germany was light years better than what we had in North America.)
Fast forward now, to the day, three weeks ago, when a Thermomix landed on my kitchen counter.
“It will make bread, lemonade, and sorbet really fast!” offerred Bill eagerly — he who had made the full-day trip to the big city for a hands-on demo. “I want to make bread, just like in the demo, except…” he continued, “I want to grind my own flour first, from organic wheatberries.”
And so we did!
photos by permission of thermomixbimby.com
So where’s the photo of our finished loaf of bread? Well, you see… way back then, (three weeks ago) we never thought we’d ever be writing a blog. We didn’t know we’d be so taken with this little machine that it would push us into cyberspace and into your monitor. So, we just took a few photos for ourselves and when the bread was done, we gobbled it up and fairly squirmed with glee.
And it was soooooo warm and buttery and finger-lickin’ good, that we forgot all about taking pictures! But we’ve baked many loaves since that day. In fact, we’ve challenged ourselves to never buy bread from the store again. To see photos of our bread-baking experiments, see here. The bread we bake most often these days is Basic Bimby Bread.
see part two of “Small Machine, Big Changes” ... >
