Thermomix Focaccia
About six months before I lashed out and bought my beloved Thermomix, I had purchased another expensive kitchen appliance; my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. This beautiful candy apple red mixer did all my baking preparations for me and it was literally like having another set of hands in the kitchen. I was in love and I am still in love.
I was a bit distressed when my Thermomix consultant declared that the TMX would replace every other appliance in my kitchen. I didn’t really want my stand mixer replaced (it cost a LOT of money, ya know?). I started seeing similarities between the TMX and the T1000 andt I was determined that the Thermomix would not terminate my stand mixer (or my rice cooker). I did however say asta la vista to my juicer, blender, ice crusher, bread maker and mini food processor :)
Four months on from taking delivery of the TMX, I was still putting off making bread with it. It was something I used to do with the stand mixer and I felt that I would be betraying it by letting the T1000… I mean the Thermomix… take care of the kneading. I was curious though and decided to bite the bullet and do up a serve of focaccia as per the main cookbook’s recipe. Just as I feared, the TMX rocked the dough. It did a perfect job of kneading and the dough was beautifully consistent.
After letting the dough prove a couple of times, I beat it into a basic focaccia shape (an odd oblong shape in my case). I had bought some divine marinated olives (garlic, chilli, Parmesan and herbs) from my Swan Valley tour so I chopped half a cupful up and topped the focaccia dough with it and some shaved Parmesan. 20 minutes in the oven and I had amazingly soft focaccia! It was amazing fresh from the oven but even three days on, it’s still very edible (although I toasted my slices and ate them with the TMX tuna dip).
TMX 1. Stand Mixer 0. Sigh… In my stand mixer’s defense, it does a mean bread and pizza dough too so maybe it’s 1-All for now :)
4 Comments
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hi there
picking up my TMX tomorrow and i was looking for an answer to the dreaded question… do i have to part with my (in my case) raspberry KMX51?
wondering how you’re doing 18 months on?
cheers
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Hi there :) No need to part with your kitchen mixer. TMX die-hards may disagree with me but the kitchen mixer is far superior at making meringue. I don’t think enough air gets into the TMX bowl and it’s also not big enough to let the meringue grow. If you enjoy meringue or need whipped egg whites for other recipes, you’ll probably turn to your kitchen mixer anyway. Also, if you want to make lots of dough, you can’t beat the sheer size of kitchen mixer bowls. I have used both the TMX and kitchen mixer for some recipes so they have a happy marriage though the TMX wears the pants :) Enjoy your TMX!
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hi monica
thank you for your swift reply. i was like “it’s the air supply, silly!”. makes a lot of sense. so KMX is staying, thats a good thing.
also, TMX arrived today and of course i was really eager to get started.
so OJ first (because the KA food processor had to make way), then some crêpe batter for later (because i wanted to experience the 20″ wonder, i was convinced) and now as i’m writing the TMX is cooking a parsnip/potato/carrot mash.
i’ll be back on your blog to check out more recipes!
best,
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Great! Hope you enjoy it. The TMX has definitely made my life easier and let me realise a lot of recipes I never thought I’d achieve. I’m about to blog about it but I made kinako (roasted soy bean powder) the other day which made me so happy as I hadn’t been able to buy it in Perth for a long time. I also love that if I’ve run out of icing sugar, I can make my own :)
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