08/07/2026
Cooking with High Heat & Open Cooking modes.
I've always made our Nachos mix by hand, on the stove. I like nice little square chunks of extra veges cooked in the sauce and it had just become a habit that doesn't take brain power, even though it was more labour intensive.
Last night I was tired, didn't want to dice my veges and the kids were hungry. I chucked a handful of veges in the TM7, set the blade speed to 5, and pressed play while counting to 5 (I was listening to when the food stopped rattling around the bowl and stopped it before it became quiet/chopped too small.) 3-5 seconds is a good time for vege chopping. I had carrots in there, so used the 5 seconds. The veges were all chopped to the nice half cm size I am used to, and wasn't over chopped -winning!
Little miss decided were were cooking the whole meal in the thermy, so in went the mince, broken up a bit, and we clicked through the settings to choose high heat for 10 mins. This means the mince was cooked and stirred around periodically, but wasn't mushed up. It looked really good at the end of the mode.
Next we added our seasoning: Corriander, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, organo & salt. Then in went a dollop of tomato paste, rinced kidney beans and a can of diced tomato' and gave it a stir through.
We went back to the modes page and picked open cooking and set that to go for 15 minutes. Open Cooking means that you can cook with the lid off, but the blades do not turn during this mode. So it is essentially a saucepan and you can let it simmer and manually stir with a spoon as you go.
At some point, my daughter decided that dinner needed sprinkles so she added those and I had to remove them. ๐
Kids right..๐ค
But, we had a delicous home cooked meal to go with our nachos and sour cream, in less than 30 minutes and it only took my 1 bowl, no time consuming chopping and it didn't stick to the bottom of the pan, like it would when cooking stovetop when I walked away and did things with the kids. Definitely doing this meal in the thermy from now on. The high-heat /browning mode is such a great hands off cooking mode.
No recipe, this one is cooked from scratch/memory.