Despite the legions of fans around the world, Thermomix only reached our shores in September, 2016 with its fifth generation, the TM5. — Read on www.wired.com/2016/12/review-thermomix/ More real life “implementation”: click here to straight to the Thermomix bit! Review: Thermomix Thermomix The smart kitchen is the buzzword of the culinary world, connecting appliances to a phone, a tablet, and even the cloud in the name of efficiency. It’s a new market that’s still finding its feet, presenting a mix of industry-changing innovation and utter malarkey. recommends 2016 Thermomix 9/10 Learn How We Rate Wired Just about everything. This device invented the smart kitchen 40 years ago. Tired Hang onto your cast iron pan. The Thermomix could replace several kitchen appliances, but meat is not its strong suit. $1,300 is not chump change. Memo to today’s smart kitchen pioneers: A team of German engineers has a 40-year jump on you, and they’re already into the fifth generation of an intelligent, powerful, and near-infinitely useful machine. It’s also unconnected.The Thermomix ($1,300) is a cult-like object in many corners of the world. With millions of units in circulation, it has inspired scores of dedicated cookbooks, and so many websites that there are websites to categorize the websites. You could call it a “multi-cooker.” It looks like a blender jar (they call it a “mixing bowl”) nestled into a sleek, futuristic centrifuge, and can do things like weigh, blend, stir, whip, chop, and boil. It can make dough. It can even steam,