Is owning a Thermomix a waste of money?

Aug 19

2 min read

You hear everyone talking about a Thermomix making a million different things, and then you see the price and think, "no way I'm spending that on a machine when I can do it all myself."

Fair enough — but let's actually look at what "doing it all yourself" is costing you already. Here are 10 reasons a Thermomix isn't the waste of money it might seem at first glance.

You buy bread every week, full of additives — and it only takes 3 ingredients to make your own.
You buy ready meals on busy days — but there are over 3,000 English recipes you can make in under 30 minutes.
You bought overpriced lemonade at the summer fair — for the same price, you could have made 1.5L at home, and it would have tasted a lot better.
You've got a fridge full of ingredients and no idea what to make with them — Cookidoo will tell you exactly what you can cook based on what you've already got.
You bought icing sugar for twice the price of normal sugar — when normal sugar and the turbo function do the same job.
You're throwing overripe fruit like bananas in the bin — instead of turning it into a quick, ready-in-minutes ice cream.
You're ordering a pizza takeaway because it feels convenient — not realising homemade pizza dough takes about 30 seconds to make.
You've got 2 or 3 pans on the hob at once — when the Varoma and steaming basket let you cook it all at the same time.
You do your weekly shop based on guesswork — rather than planning meals on Cookidoo and generating a shopping list automatically, saving time and cutting food waste.
And the big one: time is money. Every minute not spent staring at a pan, chopping, and checking is a minute spent on something that actually matters to you.