The kitchen appliance for healthy living - and professional use

It’s not just Michelin star chefs who love Thermomix for its wealth of speedy cooking applications, now hospitals and healthcare professionals are finding Thermomix an invaluable tool both in the professional kitchen and for patients at home.

Thermomix is great for getting vital nutrients into patients. Those who have difficulty swallowing are delighted that Thermomix can blend purées to exceptional smoothness, and the common complaint that blended food is dull and unappetising is avoided. Why? Because Thermomix cooks and blends ingredients simultaneously with accurate temperatures and timings, meaning the results are not only easy to eat, they are also tasty, enjoyable, wholesome and packed full of goodness.

Wendy Hilling suffers from Epidermolysis Bullosa, and she cannot swallow easily. Before Wendy discovered Thermomix, her husband had to spend two hours cooking and blending her food before passing it through a fine sieve as even tiny lumps could cause her to stop breathing. “The results were bland and tasteless. I was at the lowest point in my life, faced with having to survive on artificial liquid food,” comments Wendy. “In desperation I searched the internet for a blender that could help. I had no idea that Thermomix would change my life so much. It’s really given us our lives back. I can now cook for myself and enjoy delicious flavours again and Peter has 2 hours free time every day. Even better, I can make soup in a mere 15 minutes and eat whenever I am hungry rather than having to wait.”

A wonderful and frequent side effect of Thermomix soups is weight loss due to earlier satiety, feeling full and satisfied with a smaller quantity of food that contains more nutrients and less chemicals. Wendy can vouch for this, having lost 8 pounds over 2 months. Another positive result of the increased nutrition is that she was able to reduce some of her medications, a bonus for the NHS in these cost-cutting days.

Thermomix is ideal for people with limited strength, energy and dexterity, and for sufferers of arthritis, MS, ME and Parkinson’s. This kitchen wonder enables chefs and home cooks to set the machine to work and leave it to complete the task unattended, providing the user with a break in between cooking stages – this gives chefs increased productivity and at home reduces the amount of energy it takes for a weakened person to make meals. Wendy’s aim is that patients will be able to take their own Thermomix into hospital with them so they or family members can continue to cook home food for them, aiding a speedy recovery. Wendy tells chefs, nutritionists and dietitians about her discovery as she believes that hospital food should be prepared with Thermomix in the main kitchen and every ward should have them too.

Home users also find that Thermomix is great when catering for allergies and intolerances because you know exactly what is in the food. For example, making delicious sauces with Thermomix is so easy that ready-made jars with additives and preservatives become a thing of the past.

Often products in the ‘free from’ section of the supermarket feature products that are free from all allergens meaning that diets can end up being quite dull. However, Thermomix allows people to remove only their own particular allergen rather than all of gluten, dairy, rice, egg, sugar and soya. For example, lactose intolerants can avoid only dairy and can therefore create a more varied and healthy diet. Coeliacs can mill grains and pulses into flour with ease, and can then weigh, mix and prepare their own delicious meals. What’s more, parents of ADD and ADHD children can calm them down by feeding them home-made, additive-free food quickly and easily made from scratch. All this with one bowl, one blade and one whisk, cleaned in less than a minute – just add water and a few drops of washing up liquid then whizz. This ease of use encourages people to cook everything fresh, resulting in a much healthier diet.

Thermomix saves time in the kitchen, improves diets and quite literally changes lives for the better. Wendy’s conclusion? “Now that I have a Thermomix, you can’t get me out of the kitchen whereas before you could never get me into it. I feel stronger, my skin is better, I have more vitality and I’m enjoying eating again for the first time in years”.