I was conquered by this device that allows a large part of the recipe thermomix except hard cheese. Heats very quickly, allows to come back, jump and brown onions, garlic, ... It can even make the baby food and compotes, jams. Washes easily with pulse function and heating some water. So why two stars ??? Simply because the poor quality of the plastic used to manufacture the heater gives a smell and a taste of plastic to all preparations !!! As is so heartbreaking to make a perfect device that could compete thermomix few details and is unusable by this lack of quality! Soups, sauces, creams and baby food that I prepared ended in the trash. Inmangable because of that taste and the smell. I tried everything. The soak with soap dishes in the blender, use bottled water and filtered for preparations, soaked in vinegar. But nothing there. It is with a big twinge a great disappointment that I traded against a Moulinex because for me the Cuisinart is more efficient. (Competitor) The expo model although many stores have the same smell when this very body feels so hot I do not have a particularly bad model ...