ThermoJuicing

I've been wanting to 'test out' Theo's juicing ability for a while and after asking lots of 'how to' questions of other consultants and of some customers, I decided to give it a go last week. So for a couple of days in a row I made juice. After my son, NJ, drained his sippy cup of this juice and promptly asked for more, I knew I was onto something good!

Juice in the Thermomix is made with whole fruit. Yeah so what? So is all juice right? Wrong! Conventional juicers take the juice out of the fruit but leave the pulp (aka FIBRE) behind in the catcher thingy. Not only do you miss out on all that wonderful fibre which helps keep you full for longer and contains lots of goodies, but you also get to pull your juicer to bits and spend hours cleaning the mesh grater doovy whatsit thingy (yes these are technical terms!)

Thermomix juice takes the whole fruit (in pieces) and blends it together with ice and water to create a juice with suspended fruit in it...and your machine will be a breeze to clean. Just rinse and you're done. 

So how does one make Thermojuice? See below...

You will need:

3 pieces of fruit or vegetable
1 tray of ice cubes
200ml water (or more or less depending on what consistency you like)

This makes almost ONE LITRE of juice with just THREE pieces of fruit!!


Place the ice and fruit into the bowl...or get a helper to do it.

Blitz it for 30 seconds on speed 10. It will look something like this.

Then add 200ml water and blitz for 2 minutes on speed 10. It will look something like this.

I put it into a bottle and store it in the fridge for the day...if it lasts that long.

Be aware that the juice will oxidise the longer it sits, so after a few hours it will start to turn brownish.

Now I can hear you all asking about the cleaning, and I guess I had it coming, seeing as I went on about it a little earlier in the post. So here you go. Here is a photo of the bowl once the juice has been poured out.

Ta daa! A quick rinse and you're on your way!

I do love my Theo.

Theo's Story

After much deliberating, (mainly as to whether I will have time to service it) I have made the decision to start this blog. I am a wife, a mum, a Thermomix consultant and a part time high school teacher and this is Theo's story...

Theo came to live with us last year. Theo is a Thermomix and has fitted into the family as if he'd been here for years. If only he had!! Since we've had Theo, we've baked, mixed, juiced, steamed, whisked, crushed, grated and cooked ourselves into a frenzy, creating healthy, wholesome food from scratch using fresh ingredients. 

Oh, and when I say 'we' I do actually mean 'we'. Theo arrived at around 6:30 one Saturday evening. We knew what time he was coming and hubby had decided the first thing we would 'cook' would be frozen pina coladas...what else!! After enjoying the deliciously cooling coconutty, pineapply, Malibu-ey goodness, we set about looking for something else to cook. The following morning, after perusing the Every Day Cookbook, hubby announced (or rather asked...as if he had to) if he could cook Beef Stroganoff for dinner...with mashed potato. My only task was to source the ingredients. In the space of a few hours, my role had shifted from sole cook, to hunter gatherer, I loved Theo already! Hubby eagerly set about weighing and adding ingredients and pressing buttons. The meal was delicious, he had fun and I had half an hour to myself! I loved Theo even more!

My hope is for this to become a place to document our experiences with Theo, food, and all things Thermomix but right now I must go to bed. 

There! I've started! Perhaps I'll post again tomorrow, perhaps something else will come up, but I'll be back again soon-ish.

Jules x