Kitchen appliances - stove, oven, microwave, and whatever else is needed!

I like to cook a lot. Only, we haven't yet thought of how to relocate the smoker. Ours is a bit heavier than the hardware store cans. I haven't missed a Thermomix so far. The steam cooker runs almost every day. It processes the fallen fruit into really good apple juice or apple puree.

"Assisted Cooking". It's supposed to be convenient, see Thermomix. The user should ideally unlearn cooking or not learn it at all, so that they become dependent on that crap. Then comes pay per use or recipes exclusively from the manufacturer for coin insertion.

I notice that there are more gentlemen in this group who like to be guided/misled by technology. Cooking yes, but only with high-end technology. The women are more down-to-earth and can or want to manage without fancy technology.

What surprises me is why extractor hoods are so expensive. You quickly reach 1000€. For that money, you get very well-equipped cooktops or ovens. And an extractor hood is more like a secondary appliance.

Pure ripoff, but you have no choice. We have a Berbel – great piece, but the price is a joke. A bit of bent sheet metal and an off-the-shelf motor.

I find cooking awful. If I could, I would hire a cook. Honestly, even before a cleaning help. But a Thermomix won't come into my house anyway. I’ve come to love the steam cooker, just put in potatoes and done, they turn out so delicious, I just need a bit of butter and salt. Or raclette cheese

Otherwise, as already mentioned, I’m a Miele advocate, only the fridge doesn’t have to be from them. So far, I don’t like the interior layout there.

I really like cooking and will never understand what German soup chefs see in the Thermomix. Basically a completely unnecessary device, but marketing wins.

As for Miele: the devices are designed somewhat differently in development compared to the competition, but whether they really last longer is a gamble. BSH is also very good, no comparison to the Korean stuff. But I can’t do with all these touch cooktops, a stove has to have rotary knobs. We bought a 90cm free-standing stove from Smeg, very nice piece and back then at 2200 euros much cheaper than many pay just for their cooktop...

I notice there are more men in this group who like to be guided and tempted by technology. Cooking yes, but only with high-end technology
The women are more down-to-earth and can or want to manage without fancy technology

But you did notice the subtle irony in ’s post, right? The main buyers of the Thermomix are women, by the way.

At the beginning of my student days, I cooked a 3-course meal using a gas stove and microwave.

So kitchens with stove and oven and drawers and and and... basically completely unnecessary. But marketing wins. You have to have a kitchen, even if you hate cooking.

No one misses what they have never known. The Thermomix is found, sometimes multiple times, in many restaurant kitchens for fine dining. Not for guided cooking, by the way. I wrote above what, among other things, can be done with it without even once using the recipe function.
However, you first have to master classic cooking without the frills.

I really enjoy cooking and will never understand what German soup cooks find appealing about the Thermomix. Actually a completely unnecessary device, but marketing wins..

What does that have to do with marketing? The device is simply extremely high-quality, can steam, blend, grind, cook, knead dough. There's nothing better for baking.

We also make complete meals with it (beef roulades, turkey strips, fish..) Mostly it serves as an assistant.

I am a big fan of the thing, but I think that's how all owners feel, only those who don't have it have 1000 reasons why it is unnecessary.

No reason for that