– You guys are probably wondering who this extremely tall blender next to me is and I'm not talking about the Thermomix I'm talking about Ian. Ian has worked on countless TV shows, he's tested a hundred kitchen gadgets, and he is here to help us test this beast of a kitchen gadget, the Thermomix. – So it's basically the kitchen gadget that can do everything. You don't need a food processor or a stand mixer or a
blender, it can do all that.
So we're gonna test
three different recipes. We're gonna start with a risotto recipe and then a salmon recipe and
we'll make hollandaise, too. And through these recipes
I hope we can get a sense of why people love this machine so much. – And for $1,500 I better
be one of those people. – Yeah, you're gonna want to
love it if it's that expensive. – Thermomix has twelve functionalities. – Milling or grinding,
cooking, emulsifying, whipping, steaming, mixing, stirring,
blending, chopping, kneading, precise heating, and weighing. – You lost me (chuckling) at cooking. – First we're gonna start
with a risotto recipe and we're actually gonna use
what they call a "Cook-Key" and it's gonna have the
recipe built in here.
It'll walk us through each step. Okay, first step is to find the risotto. – And then you said that this actually weighs it out for you as well? – Yes, so this is a scale. One and half ounces of parmesan, speed 10. (Thermomix whirring) – So will this automatically
stop when it's ready? – Yeah, see it's counting down there. (Thermomix chiming) – Oh my god, and it sings! I love gadgets that sing. (laughing)
– That's a good grind. – That's very powerful. – Okay, so we're gonna add one shallot. – One ounce? Uh huh.
– So we're just gonna
turn this to speed 5. – Okay. – And then it automatically starts. (Thermomix whirring) – Oh my god! – One ounce of butter. Have an ounce of olive oil. If we were just making
this at home in a pan, you know, those amounts could vary. Here, you're not gonna have that. – Yeah, and you wanna
be pretty exact because this is precision cooking. – Yeah. – Slow to heating up,
it's like super precise. – Yeah. The pan's on
medium high, well, like, – Who knows what medium high is? – Yeah, what is that? Like everyone's burner is
a little different.
So this is taking away that variable. Ten ounces of risotto rice. I think the scale feature is really great but then one issue is that if
you add too much of something, – How do you take it? – Yeah, it's kinda hard to take it out since you're adding it to the pot. – Yeah. – So now we're toasting the rice. – So I didn't really
understand why this Thermomix was so crazy popular but
I'm sort of understanding why this could be, like
a revolutionary product.
– Yeah. It appeals to the home cook and
then also professional chefs because it's really
interactive, it's easy to use for the home cook and
then on the other side is that it's so specific
that chefs can, you know, be within one ounce of an onion. – Yup. – Or they can set the temperature like exactly how they want it. – Alright, two ounces of dry white wine. – We'll drink the rest of that later. – Yeah. – 25 ounces of water. Bouillon cubes, we're gonna add that. – And then twelve minutes. Oh wow! – It looks pretty good. – Oh yeah! It looks beautiful. Really creamy and it smells so good. – So we add the cheese and
we're gonna add butter. Cheers! – Risotto cheers! – The rice is cooked perfectly. – It's perfect! Like not overcooked at all. – It's good! – It's so good! – I'm gonna go double dip. I don't think that you would ever know that it was made by a robot.
– No, I think it's actually
made better than any cook. – You do? – Yeah. It's like really, really perfect. But, let's be real, this is $1,500. So I'm not gonna buy
this gadget for $1,500. – To make risotto. – Yeah, for $1,500 to make this. – Yeah, it's not worth it. Okay, so for this next one
we're gonna make soup, potatoes, broccoli, and steamed
salmon all at the same time. – What? Wait, soup too? – Yeah. – Okay. – The other one was so easy because all the steps were built in. – Mhmm. – So for this one we'll use the cookbook and we'll have to be a little
more interactive with it. We do need to add an ounce
of olive oil to this. – Okay. – So here we'll hit the scale. – One ounce? – Yeah, one ounce. And then if you wanna add the soy sauce, the lemon zest, lemon juice. And we're gonna emulsifying
twenty seconds on speed 5.
– (Thermomix whirring) (Thermomix chiming) – Okay, so now we're gonna add ginger, garlic, shallots – Okay. – Leeks. We're gonna chop for
four seconds at speed 4. – (Thermomix chopping) – This part is not as easy as having it programmed in here. – Yeah. – 'Cause you literally don't have to touch or do anything, really. – Right, everything sort
of already built in, where here you're like, okay,
you gotta adjust everything. – Yeah, uh huh. – So there is a community
online which are people who own this and then play around with it, create their own recipes,
put those recipes online for other people to use. It's a cult (chuckling). – Do you want to join the cult? – (laughing) The initiation fee is too high. We're gonna add the celery and peas. Chop them eight seconds at speed 8. – (Thermomix whirring) – (chuckling) Lift off. – Yeah. Oh my god! – (Thermomix chiming) – Holy.
– (laughing) Okay so now
insert the steamer basket. We're gonna add the potatoes to that. – Okay. – Okay so this is the
Varoma dish, it's a steamer. Then we're gonna add broccoli.
This steaming tray, the recipe says to line it with parchment. This is one of those
things where when gadgets have a ton of different
features, you wonder are they really necessary? – So you can charge $500 for them. – Yeah, like is steam on
here just so they can say, "Oh my gosh, it does twelve things!" We're gonna cook for twenty minutes. – And then the soup is
the one that's cooking all of these things? The steam from the soup. – Yeah, the heat of the soup.
And so maybe those flavor
profiles will also help infuse the food versus
just steaming with water. – Yup. – So we're gonna take
off the steamer basket. Now we're just gonna
finish by adding some cream and pureeing the soup. – Oh wow! – Dinner's ready. I mean it's super smooth. – That soup looks
beautiful, like velvetty. So there's our meal. – It's super smooth. – Yeah, it's actually really good. – Soup is good. Recipe is good. I mean, technique-wise it's great. We're gonna make hollandaise. Everything's gonna go in at the same time. – Okay. – With this recipe and this machine, we can have stable heat
while mixing the entire time. – So no breakage of sauce? – Right. – Which is very difficult
with hollandaise.
– Right. No breaking. – Mhmm. – The emulsion will stay the whole time. And the stable heat
while mixing is something that the chefs really
love about this machine because no other product does that. Our butter, lemon juice, four egg yolks. We're gonna cook this for eight minutes at 160 degrees, speed 4. – Okay, so basically it's like
food processing while heating at the same time so it becomes a sauce. – Yeah. – Genius! – (Thermomix whirring) – Moment of truth. – I mean you can tell just
by the texture, it's great. – Thick. – Nice and emulsified. – Creamy, delicious! – With the heat stabilization, you can use it for other
things like tempering chocolate or other sauces that you wanted to hold at a specific temperature.
– Yeah. We went through three
recipes, it's amazing. But here's the million dollar question: Is it worth $1,500? That's really expensive. – It's really expensive. I think all the cool stuff
is happening in this blender and anything on top of
that is kind of an extra. This thing is brilliant,
it can do a lot of things. Is it worth $1,500? I don't think so because
there's so many dishes that you could just make at home using what you have in your kitchen
that are gonna turn out just as good as this and
they're not gonna cost you that much money. – And a little imperfection
never killed anyone. – We're all human. – Exactly. And sometimes it fun to just fix things. For more videos like this, click here..
