A Thermomix is displayed at a Vorwerk store in Bilbao, Spain. Cristina Arias/Cover/Getty Images
With an eye-popping price tag of $1,500, the Thermomix TM6 has a lot to prove. Never heard of a Thermomix? That could mean you live in the United States, one of the last holdouts of Thermomix global domination. The upmarket cooking device has been built and sold in Europe by the German company Vorwerk since 1971 and has earned a coveted place in restaurants and home kitchens in Portugal, Italy (where it s called a Bimby) and Australia. The first Thermomix machines started selling in the U.S. in 2015.