Fitting Bao Buns in the Tokit and Thermomix Machines

You can fit about four bao buns down the bottom tray put the tray on and add seven more on top followed by the lid this is the Tokit one they have a top tray and they have a bottom tray now by adding this layer it takes it from the small circle that fits to the top of the device to a larger area so now we can fit seven bao buns at the bottom and another seven at the top so depending how many people you have in your family or if you have a party on the chocolate one gives you a lot more room they both steamed really well.

Last but not least let's look at safety and run some tests for that if we fill them both to the maximum level and then put them on maximum speed for one minute nothing is coming out of the lids not at all not even a drop now while neither of these will turn on with the lid not locked into place you can turn it on without the cup so I've run this test again with the cup out and I've circled the drops after a whole minute To be honest I thought there'd be a lot more obviously if it is this full and it's hot don't run it at full speed with the cup out because there are some little splatters as you'd expect The Thermomix sort of tries to prevent this in manual mode if you select a temperature over 60 degrees it won't let you choose a speed higher than six it disables heating however if you've already made something that you've heated say to boiling point like a soup or something like that and then you're just asking it to blend it and you're not telling it to heat it up from that point but it's already hot it will let you zoom it all the way up to speed 10 So it's a strange safety measure that only works in some circumstances The thermomix cup has a rim around most of the way but then it has a gap on one side for the steam to escape too It is important that these don't get blocked Neither machine will function if you don't have the lid locked in place and that is a safety measure the Tokit has a piece here that has to slide in sideways and lock in at the front like that I did notice that if you push the lid down at the front and then turn it it is possible to lock it in at the front when it's not properly connected at the back so you do have to make sure that you put the lid on properly before turning it to lock into place Thermomix have got around that problem by locking the lid in place on both sides for you when you turn it on which of course leads to another potential hazard which it calls the risk of injury from pinching your fingers I am not willing to sacrifice my fingers to test that one so instead let's use a carrot shaped like my little finger ouch That would hurt so much.

Comparison of Tokit and Thermomix Machines

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enWelcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and in this episode we are going to be reviewing two  different kitchen gadgets. I have here the Thermomix TM6 and the Tokit Omni Cook. Now  both of these claim to do the job of 20 kitchen gadgets all in one which is pretty impressive  but that comes at a price ... the Tokit Omni Cook will cost you $1320 Australian dollars,  I didn't actually pay for this one the brand sent me this for free thank you for that.  This one is going to set you back $2359 so it's a thousand dollars more expensive. So do they work  and is the Tokit Omni cook as good as the thousand dollar more expensive TM6?  I have done extensive testing so much testing over the last few weeks and i'm going to summarize  all of that here for you to save you the trouble and the money so that you can find out which one  you think is better for yourself. So let's start with the appearance which one looks better  well that's really personal preference so i can't weigh in for you there i think they both look good  the Tokit has a vertical display screen to one side it has a 2.2 litre jack with a blade at  the bottom and i like the way the jug has the measurements labeled on the side. This is the  thermomix it has the exact same sized screen but it's horizontal at the base instead of vertical  and just like the Tokit it has a 2.2 litre maximum fill line but the overall size of this jug is a  little bit smaller than the Tokit one because there's not as much spare room at the top as far  as bench space goes this one is quite a bit deeper and this one is a bit wider so it depends do you  want to be able to push it further back on your bench and have room in front of it or have more  room to the side? If i overlay them on top of each other it is probably a little bit easier for you  to see how much room each one is going to take on your counter. There are three different ways that  you can use these gadgets and the first one that i'm going to show you is called guided recipes and  this is one of the things that makes this machine so unique to every other kitchen appliance. The  Tokit has thousands of recipes from all over the world and they are free to use you can browse and  search them on the machine or you can do it on your computer whichever you prefer. The thermomix  has 70 000 recipes and they allow you to add your own recipes too which is a feature i really like  but the downside is to access their recipes and to access the recipes that you've typed in yourself  you have to pay a yearly membership which i think seems a little bit rich given the purchase price  of the machine but to demonstrate how the guided recipes work i thought i'd make meringues because  they only have two ingredients and i've got a lot of testing to do so on the tokit and the thermomix  you can search and then select a recipe and then you can scroll down and see all the ingredients  and instructions before you start and then if you decide that's what you want to make you hit start.  The tokit will then take you through step by step with photos some of the recipes even  have videos for each step as well and you just swipe across to get to the next step  and when you get to adding the ingredients the mixing bowl will weigh it for you as you add  it how cool is that. This recipe just uses icing sugar and egg whites and then it tells you to add  the whisk in so just put that in the bowl then you whip it. The speed temperature and time is  already pre-programmed for guided recipes so you just need to press the control button to start and  once the time is done you end up with this lovely thick meringue look at that it's not moving at all  it's nice and stiff so you can pipe that into any shape that you want. It's a very similar process  on the Thermomix but you can't swipe you have to press next and it doesn't seem to have photos for  the steps the weighing of ingredients as you add them to the bowl works in exactly the same way  as it did on the Tokit nice i like that and this particular recipe instead of using icing sugar it  uses normal sugar and then gets you to blend it to make your own icing sugar that's not smoke coming  out of the top don't worry it's powdered sugar then it says to tip that into a separate bowl  and then wash and dry the bowl. It then has a video showing you how to add the whisk then you  add the egg whites and whip them on their own and then add the sugar back in one teaspoon at a time  this is a really strange thing to do you could have just left the sugar in there added the egg  whites and whipped it all together. In olden days recipes they used to whip the egg whites by hand  so they would whip them separately and then add in the sugar and whip that and that's because if you  put the sugar and egg whites in together it takes a couple of minutes longer if you're whipping by  hand to get it to those stiff peaks but if you've got a machine like this that can whip really fast  it's just a few seconds longer and you're not whipping by hand so you're not even going to  notice so you might as well just chuck the sugar and the egg whites in together because by adding  a teaspoon by teaspoon you've effectively slowed down the recipe which the purpose of adding it  separately was to speed up the recipe but anyway you end up with the same beautiful nice thick  mixture that pipes perfectly into beautiful shapes and once they're baked they're indistinguishable  from each other so both recipes give you a great end result one just took you the long way round  to get there. The guided recipes really is a great idea especially for inexperienced cooks if you're  someone who is trying to eat less take out but you don't know how to make your own meals this sort of  thing will make it easy because they step you through every step of the process literally the  instructions are right there and it shows you how to do it it's very hard to stuff it up unless you  deliberately go off track so it's a great place for that the other thing that you can do of course  is get a recipe book there are heaps of websites with Thermomix recipes and cookbooks as well and  most of those you can translate directly into the same settings on this Tokit omni cook as  well whichever one you get there's plenty of independent recipes out there for you to choose.  The other thing you can choose instead of guided recipes is to use one of the modes that they have  they both have a whole range of modes and some of them are the same like scales, pre-clean,  kneading, sous-vide, yogurt or fermentation and turbo and then there are modes that are unique  to each machine these are all of their other modes and just because one machine doesn't have  a particular function doesn't mean that you can't do that function on that machine you're just going  to have to do it using guided recipes or do it manually so for example the thermomix has an egg  boiler mode and the Tokit does not but if we use the egg boiler mode on the thermomix we just put  eggs in straight from the fridge with a litre of water and then we turn it to how we want it  done and it says it'll be ready in 10 minutes so then if we go to the Tokit and we put a litre of  water in eggs straight from the fridge and we set it to 10 minutes the only problem is that  we can't set it to not stirring in manual mode it always stirs i'm a little worried that even on the  lowest speed these eggs are going to break when they're bobbing around in there but in the end  they didn't break and they turned out fine this is the one from the thermomix and this is the one  from the tokit. Similarly the tokit has an ice shaving mode and the thermomix does not  but you can shave ice in both machines i used the tokit to turn ice cubes into this finely crushed  ice which is perfect for drinks and i did the same in the thermomix manually without a problem  the ice in this second glass is from the thermomix so by now you've probably noticed there is a third  way you can use the machines and that is manually setting everything yourself and you would think  that in that they would be identical but they actually differ quite a bit here so let's start  by looking at the time setting. on the tokit in manual mode you can set it to go for up to  99 minutes and that is the same on the thermomix both machines can run for a lot longer than that  in some of the pre-programmed modes but they won't let you choose that in the manual mode  now if we look at the temperature the chocolate can go up to 180 degrees celsius  which means you can use it for sugar work, making caramel browning onions, anything that requires a  high temp the thermomix only goes up to well it has aroma which is a hundred degrees for steam  but the maximum temperature you can set is 120 celsius the machine itself can go higher than that  and it does in some of the guided recipes but it won't let you manually choose that even if you try  and type your own recipes in it won't let you pick anything above 120 degrees so unless you  want to make one of their guided recipes you're a bit stuck. So for example in the tokit i put in  some sugar glucose syrup and water to the jug and set it to heat to 155 degrees in manual mode and  i got this perfectly heated sugar once it cooled down it's crack hard and delicious pecan brittle.  I'll put all the recipe details on my website for all of these tests i'm doing in case you want to  make them too in the Thermomix i couldn't do that manually so i searched for a peanut brittle guided  recipe hoping i could manually modify it but when i got to the heating screen it just says max temp  it doesn't tell me what the temperature is and it won't let me adjust it. I can adjust the time but  i cannot adjust the temp and then when i turned it on it stirs for a few seconds and then it stopped  and says the cooking process was stopped because the ingredients and quantities differ too much  from the original recipe. So in the thermomix you can only use the high temperatures needed  for sugar work for their recipes in the exact quantities that they have if you want to make  your own recipe or a different quantity you can't do that one thing that these machines  are very good at which is why they are in a lot of commercial kitchens is precise temperature control  when you're making a recipe like cremeux it has to be heated to an exact temperature so that you've  cooked the egg yolks but you haven't overcooked them because if you overcook them they'll go  lumpy a bit like having scrambled eggs mixed with milk, so if you're doing that on a stove top you  have to first whisk together the egg yolks and the sugar then heat up your cream then add some  of that cream into the egg yolks to temper it then add that back into the cream put it on  the stove top and make sure it doesn't go above 85 degrees so that it doesn't go lumpy but if  you're using one of these you can just chuck the sugar and the cream and the egg yolks directly in,  turn it on to stir and then set the temperature to 85 degrees and leave it to just come up to the  right temperature which is so simple you know it's not going to overheat and it's not going to go  lumpy which is great. The only thing you do need to consider is although you know it won't go over  that temperature in the Tokit it's not actually telling you what temperature it's currently  at so for recipes like this where it matters and you need to cook the egg yolks up to 85 degrees  you're going to need to use a digital thermometer while you work out a new recipe so that you know  how long to leave it in there to get it up to that temperature. The thermomix on the other hand  has the temperature that you set it at in the middle and it tells you above that what  the current temperature is this is saying that we have reached 85 degrees already  i just want to check that because it got there a lot faster than i would have expected  put in the digital thermometer into the bowl and we're actually only at 43 degrees not 85. Wow  that is actually a major concern because if i hadn't have checked the temperature i would have  thought it was at 85 because it's telling me it is but at 43 degrees the eggs are not safe to eat.  Let's double check that and just crank that up to 100 degrees at that temperature the mixture  should split and be lumpy and it will be boiling and bubbling fast forward a minute and now it  says we've reached 100 degrees centigrade but the digital thermometer says it's only 61. Let's have  a look inside and that is not bubbling and it is not split and it is definitely not 100 degrees.  This is a brand new machine and it is super expensive so i expected it to be 100% accurate  within a degree or two at least. So let's do a worldwide test see if just this one is faulty if  you have a tm6 and you have a digital thermometer can you make for me a recipe that needs eggs let's  make it consistent let's choose one so they must have an ice cream like a vanilla ice cream recipe  make that and check when you get to the heating section of the recipe when it says that it has  reached the temperature can you check with your digital thermometer what temperature it  is currently at and let me know in the comments how it went. I like having the temperature on the  screen saying what temperature we're currently at but if that temperature is completely inaccurate  that is worse than not having the temperature at all i would rather use a digital thermometer and  know for sure what temperature we're at. Okay so moving on let's test the other functions one  of the functions they do is blending, chopping, grinding all of them are fairly similar you've  just got a blade spinning at different speeds probably the hardest thing for that to do well  is grinding so let's put it to the test with a hard grain. i'm going to use some freaker freaker  is just a durum wheat that has been harvested while it's still green it is then roasted and  rubbed or polished so we'll give each machine 100 grams of freekah and one minute to grind it on  top speed then to compare i'll sift it through a fine sieve the tokit gave us this much flour  and 25 grams of coarse stuff that wouldn't go through the fine sieve and with the thermomix  the results were similar this is the fine flour but there was a bit more there was 31 grams of the  course of stuff left which makes sense because the tokit's top speed is 12,000 rpm and a thermomix is  10,700 rpm you could of course get the same results in the thermomix you just need to  leave it for a little bit longer than you did in the tokit. The next function i want to test is  needing to make different doughs ... i've got the same ingredients in each bowl and i'll set them to  knead using their pre-programmed mode for seven minutes they are both quite noisy and wobble a  fair bit when they're in kneading mode my youngest came in to see what the noise was all about.  From beginning to end the thermomix had moved a little bit on the bench and the tokit had stayed  put so i had a look underneath and the thermomix has solid rubber feet they can move around within  the area where they're joined which gives them a bit of flexibility but they don't suction to the  bench. The Tokit feet move around as well giving them that flexibility but they also have a suction  cup on them so they stick to the bench which is why it has stayed put back to the bread they both  made beautiful dough which i baked into lovely fluffy rolls i don't think i'll be needing a bread  machine anymore. I always just use it to knead the dough and then i take it out so i can bake it into  the form that i want these both did a great job of kneading and made enough dough to make two loaves  each next to test how well they steam rice for each of them you need to add in a basket which  came with the machine and then weigh in your rice. You will then need to rinse that rice under water  so that it's wet and add water to the jug of course you then turn it onto steam and select  your time and start they both made really nice steamed rice it was great they're both equal here.  Now let's look at the sous-vide function on each machine now sous-vide is quite a specific way of  cooking where you cook at a lower temperature than you normally would over a longer time now to make  that food safe you do need to use a vacuum sealer to vacuum pack the food that just eliminates the  oxygen that most bacteria needs both machines correctly tell you to make sure you're using a  vac sealed bag when you select sous vide and you also need longer times than you'd normally cook  for so if you're new to sous vide i'd suggest that you use a guided recipe otherwise you can just use  the sous-vide mode on each machine and customize it how you like if you want to do sous-vide in  these machines then for both of them you need to purchase their blade cover accessories and that  does what it says it covers the blade so that the bag can't get pierced as the blade goes round the  blade has to spin so that it's circulating that water and you're getting an even temperature the  whole way through after the problems we had with temperature with the cremeux i thought  i would double check the temperatures now the thermomix says it is at 60 degrees and let's have  a look it's been going for a while now and yep the water is at 59 that's good i'm happy with that so  when it's water it seems to be a bit more accurate let's check the Tokit while we're here in it goes  spot on 60 degrees that's exactly what we asked for so both machines are good for sous-vide but  obviously you can't fit a large volume of food in there but let me show you the results after an  hour you can take the chicken out and sear it just so it's browned on each side or you can serve it  just like this and it is so tender and so moist and perfectly cooked the whole way through  this is like something you'd get at a restaurant. Next onto the slow cooking function i put some  water and 800 grams of pork and some spices and some vegetables into the jug of each one.  On the Tokit if i choose stewing from the pre-programmed modes the maximum time i can  set is 99 minutes which is a pity because i want longer than that i can put the temp to what i  like and on this mode it stirs intermittently i'd really like to be able to set the time for longer  in this mode because i want to cook the pork for six hours. If i go into sous vide i can set it  for six hours at 80 degrees but then it stirs the whole time you can get around that in the  tokit it has a unique thing which is called a slow cook plug that you can swap out the blade for this  plug instead but that is an added accessory and i don't actually have that. The thermomix doesn't  have one of those at all ideally what i'd love is if they would both just let you turn them on  without stirring because i feel like that'd be a better option if i could stir sometimes and then  change the setting manually to not stir that's what i'd really like and steering intermittently  as an option in manual mode as well that would be awesome neither of them offer that you have  to have it stirring if you're doing it in manual mode there's something for them to add  on the thermomix under the slow cooking setting you can select up to eight hours and adjust  the temperature to what you want and it stirs intermittently so it's very similar to the stewing  mode on the tokit but you can set it for longer. After six hours of total cooking time on both  machines you end up with lovely tender pork that is easy to pull into shreds that'll be great in  rolls with some coleslaw. Now we've looked at the highest temperatures they can go to so what about  the lowest temperatures i would love if they could temper chocolate and they can't. They can melt  chocolate beautifully if you put the chocolate in there and then just turn it on to blitz it up into  small pieces you can then put it onto the lowest temperature and get it to stir until it's melted.  If you don't have a large amount of chocolate you are going to need to scrape it off the blades so  that that will melt this is 180 grams of chocolate in here so you'd need quite a bit of chocolate if  you were going to cover the blades the lowest temperature you can set it to on the Tokit  is 35 degrees and the lowest temperature you can set it to on the thermomix is 37 degrees. So they  just don't go low enough in temperature to allow us to play with those temperatures and temper the  chocolate but it does melt it beautifully which is a start. Now both of them have a  yogurt or a fermentation function which will allow you to have low temps over eight hours and after  i put this on overnight by the morning i had some beautiful yogurt in each of them this is from the  Tokit just putting that on top of muesli mixed with freshly squeezed orange juice and this is  from the thermomix i really can't tell these two apart they both worked really well for yogurt  in their guided recipes they both have recipes for ice cream but they don't have a freezer bowl  so i thought i'd test it out using my roasted strawberry ice cream. You can get my book  spiral bound on Amazon now if you prefer spiral bound you can go get one of those. Now instead  of churning the mixture as it freezes like you normally would they both say to freeze it and  then cut it into cubes and then blend it in the machine now while this will make a frozen dessert  it is not going to be the same texture as churned ice cream. You can see that this one looks lighter  in colour and that's because it has a lot more air whipped into it and because you've churned it as  it froze it has really small ice crystals that you just can't even detect so the ice cream machine  one is smooth and creamy and the other one it's a little bit icy it has a different texture it's not  as airy but if you don't have an ice cream machine then it definitely is a yummy frozen dessert  but it's just not quite the same if you're after really smooth ice cream. Now onto steaming if you  want to use them for a large amount of steaming not just the little steamer basket then you'll  need to purchase the optional extra of the steamer that goes on top. This is the Thermomix one it has  a tray on the top and then one on the bottom and i found this space on the bottom to be quite small  and that's because it has to be able to go down to the size of the top of the Thermomix so you can  fit about four bao buns down the bottom put the tray on and add seven more on top followed by the  lid this is the Tokit one they have a top tray and they have a bottom tray now by adding this layer  it takes it from the small circle that fits to the top of the device to a larger area so now we  can fit seven bao buns at the bottom and another seven at the top so depending how many people you  have in your family or if you have a party on the chocolate one gives you a lot more room they both  steamed really well. Last but not least let's look at safety and run some tests for that  if we fill them both to the maximum level and then put them on maximum speed for one minute  nothing is coming out of the lids not at all not even a drop, now while neither of these will turn  on with the lid not locked into place you can turn it on without the cup so i've run this  test again with the cup out and i've circled the drops after a whole minute. To be honest  i thought there'd be a lot more obviously if it is this full and it's hot don't run it at  full speed with the cup out because there are some little splatters as you'd expect.  The Thermomix sort of tries to prevent this in manual mode if you select a temperature over 60  degrees it won't let you choose a speed higher than six it disables heating however if you've  already made something that you've heated say to boiling point like a soup or something like that  and then you're just asking it to blend it and you're not telling it to heat it up from  that point but it's already hot it will let you zoom it all the way up to speed 10. So it's a  strange safety measure that only works in some circumstances. The thermomix does also have a  splash guard that you can put on top while letting more steam escape i'm not sure if that's really  needed though as both machines were designed with a vent around the cup you can see there's a little  bit sticking down that stops the cup going all the way down here on the Tokit so there's a gap  for the steam to escape so pressure doesn't build up inside while you're cooking. The thermomix cup  has a rim around most of the way but then it has a gap on one side for the steam to escape too. It is  important that these don't get blocked. Neither machine will function if you don't have the  lid locked in place and that is a safety measure the Tokit has a piece here that has to slide in  sideways and lock in at the front like that i did notice that if you push the lid down at the front  and then turn it it is possible to lock it in at the front when it's not properly connected  at the back so you do have to make sure that you put the lid on properly  before turning it to lock into place. Thermomix have got around that problem by locking the lid  in place on both sides for you when you turn it on which of course leads to another potential hazard  which it calls the risk of injury from pinching your fingers i am not willing to sacrifice my  fingers to test that one so instead let's use a carrot shaped like my little finger  ouch! That would hurt so much. Well there is a very in-depth comprehensive comparison for you  let me know which one you think is better bang for your buck. With thanks to my patrons for your  ongoing support here is a list of absolute legends and if you liked this video as always like comment  share subscribe and watch more episodes make it a great week and i'll see you on Friday.\n"