My Favorite Cooking Gadget Is Getting A Big Upgrade

The Thermomix TM7 is nan adjacent procreation of 1 nan astir versatile cooking appliances you tin buy.

I’ve owned a Thermomix TM6 for astir 5 years, and I usage it aggregate times a time for everything from making smoothies successful nan greeting to steaming veggies for dinner, whipping up a sauce, aliases cooking immoderate rice. It’s nan most versatile smart gadget successful my kitchen. Now its successor, nan Thermomix TM7, has arrived successful nan US, launching coming for $1,699.

Yes, it’s costly — but this all-in-one instrumentality is designed to switch a countertop’s worthy of gadgets, pinch functions for illustration weighing, chopping, whisking, steaming, sautéing, slow cooking, and moreover fermenting. The standout upgrade is simply a larger 10-inch touchscreen powered by a faster multicore processor. However, I‘m wary of nan missing beingness dial, arsenic nan surface features each nan device’s controls, arsenic good arsenic entree to 200 built-in guided cooking recipes (and galore much pinch a Cookido subscription for $65 a year).

The remainder of nan TM7 has been redesigned arsenic well, pinch a sleeker, all-black design, an open-lid cooking option, and a larger steaming basket. Vorwerk, which owns Thermomix, says its package level has been rebuilt from nan crushed up to alteration early bigger updates — including sound control.

The TM6, which launched successful 2019, has been discontinued, but Vorwerk has committed to 10 years of support.