My favorite cooking gadget is getting a big upgrade

The Thermomix TM7 is the adjacent procreation of 1 the 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 the greeting to steaming veggies for dinner, whipping up a sauce, oregon cooking immoderate rice. It’s the most versatile astute gadget successful my kitchen. Now its successor, the Thermomix TM7, has arrived successful the US, launching contiguous for $1,699.

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

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

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