Your Thermomix TM7 questions, answered

Share your details on the request form and I’ll call within one working day to plan a time, menu, and format that feels right for you.

Absolutely. We can focus on family-friendly meals, allergies, plant-based dishes, or anything else you’d like to experience.

A Thermomix is a single countertop machine that carries out more than 20 separate kitchen jobs, so it stands in for a stack of appliances rather than adding to it. It weighs ingredients on built-in scales accurate to the gram, then chops, blends, mixes, kneads, grinds, mills, emulsifies, steams, sous-vides, ferments, slow-cooks and stirs while heating, all in the same bowl.

In practice that means one machine doing the work of scales, a blender, a food processor, a stand mixer, a steamer, a rice cooker and a soup maker. For most kitchens the appeal is less about any single function and more about the washing up: one bowl instead of six, and a machine that weighs, cooks and stirs without being watched. Vorwerk publish the full function list on the official TM7 page.

Every new TM7 comes with a free three-month Cookidoo trial subscription. Cookidoo is the recipe platform the machine cooks from: you pick a recipe and the TM7 walks you through it step by step on the screen, setting its own times, temperatures and speeds as it goes.

Vorwerk publish over 100,000 Cookidoo recipes, and they are optimised for the machine rather than adapted from print. After the trial ends, a Cookidoo subscription is optional and priced by Vorwerk; current pricing is on the official Vorwerk page. The machine still cooks without a subscription, using manual mode and any recipes you have already saved, but guided cooking is the reason most people buy one.

A new TM7 arrives with the base unit, the mixing bowl with its blade and insulation cover, the lid and lid cover, the Varoma steaming set, the simmering basket and the spatula. That is everything needed to cook the great majority of Cookidoo recipes on day one.

The Thermomix® Sensor, a probe for oven and hob cooking, is sold separately and is not in the box. Other optional accessories such as the Blade Cover & Peeler, Cutter and additional bowls are also bought separately from Vorwerk. Exact box contents and dimensions are published on the Vorwerk UK & Ireland specification page, checked 31 August 2026.

No. A demo is free and carries no obligation. You get a cooked meal, a proper look at the machine and honest answers, and if it is not right for you that is a perfectly good outcome.

Thermomix is sold only through independent advisors, which is why a demo exists at all: there is no shop where you can try one. The point of the session is to find out whether the machine suits how you actually cook, in your own kitchen, using your own hob space and worktop. Plenty of people book a demo, enjoy the food and decide the answer is no. Nobody is asked to decide on the day.

Yes, if you are within a reasonable drive of Twickenham. In-person demos are hosted in your own kitchen across Twickenham, St Margarets, Richmond, Teddington, Hampton, Whitton, Isleworth, Hounslow, Feltham, Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton, East and West Molesey, Barnes, Mortlake, East Sheen, Chiswick and Brentford.

The full list of areas covered is on the contact page. If your area is not on it, ask anyway: it is usually possible. Virtual demos are held over video and are open to anyone in the UK and Ireland, which suits people outside the travel radius or anyone who would rather not host in person.

Allow around two hours. A demo is a cooking session rather than a sales presentation: food gets made, and you eat it.

The session is built around what you actually want to cook. That might be a family dinner, bread, something to suit an allergy or a dietary requirement, or a dish you have never attempted because it looked like too much work. You operate the machine yourself rather than watching someone else do it, which is the only reliable way to find out whether the screen and the workflow suit you. Questions are welcome throughout, including the awkward ones about price and whether it is worth it.

Vorwerk set the price and it is the same from every advisor, since no discounting is permitted. Current UK pricing is published on the official Vorwerk TM7 page.

Because the price is fixed by Vorwerk, the thing worth comparing between advisors is not cost but what happens afterwards: whether someone answers the phone in six months when a recipe misbehaves, runs cook-alongs, and knows the machine well enough to be useful. Ask about that on the demo.

It depends on how much you use the machine and what frustrates you about it. The TM7's clearest changes are a larger 10-inch glass touchscreen, a redesigned Varoma with 45% more steaming capacity than the TM6, and a quieter motor.

If you cook from Cookidoo most days, the bigger screen is the change people notice first, because guided steps and shopping lists are simply easier to read. If your TM6 mostly makes soup at the weekend, the case is weaker. The TM7 bowl holds 2.2 litres, chosen so that existing TM5 and TM6 recipes stay fully compatible. A side-by-side comparison sets out the differences, and a demo is the honest way to decide.

Quieter than a stand mixer or a blender at the same job, and quieter than the previous model, but not silent. Chopping and milling are the loudest operations because they run at high speed; most cooking happens at low speeds where the machine is close to unobtrusive.

This is worth testing rather than reading about. During a demo, run it at the speed you would actually use in your own kitchen and judge for yourself, particularly if you have an open-plan space where someone might be watching television nearby.

You’ll receive follow-up resources and we’ll decide the next steps together when you’re ready, and there’s never any pressure.

Cookidoo® hosts over 100,000 guided recipes accessible directly on the TM7 screen. I’ll also send curated collections tailored to your tastes.

Yes, switch to Manual or Scales mode for freestyle cooking. The TM7’s heat, time, and speed controls are always available.

Not at all. The TM7 bowl, lid, and accessories are dishwasher safe. Use the pre-clean mode for quick rinses between recipes.