{"id":24163,"date":"2017-05-29T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2017-05-29T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:36:07","slug":"food-processing-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2017\/05\/29\/food-processing-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Processing \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the machine I decided on was the Thermomix TM5. Not quite the best machine of the three I was considering whether by function or price, but it was the one which would be least painful to fix if anything goes wrong. I dashed out during lunch hour on that very weekday to view the item at the Thermomix showroom, ask questions, quickly decided to pick it up, had it packed, dashed home to drop it off, then rushed back to the office. The wife was of course both very surprised and pleased to see the appliance when she came home from work herself &#8211; so much so that a quick kitchen makeover was necessary:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24169\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-02-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For months all sorts of things got piled on our dry kitchen countertop. This is how it looks now. #PowerOfNewKitchenToysOnMommies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ling has of course been trying all manner of recipes with her new toy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24170\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-03-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ham and cheese buns for breakfast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24171\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-05.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-05-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-05-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soupy Spinach Stir-Fry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24172\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-04-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Char Siew (Cantonese barbequed pork).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As to whether the Thermomix has made her life easier, the jury&#8217;s still out. That&#8217;s largely on account though that there&#8217;s a learning curve involved, despite that many recipes in the supplied cookbook look real easy to do.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24173\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-01-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-01-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TM5 sitting between two cookbooks that came with the set.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the machine I decided on was the Thermomix TM5. Not quite the best machine of the three I was considering whether by function or price, but it was the one which would be least painful to fix if anything<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2017\/05\/29\/food-processing-part-2\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Food Processing \u2013 Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[597],"class_list":["post-24163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-thermomix","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blog-thermomix-01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}