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Thermomix TM7

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A kitchen machine with a big touchscreen, Wi-Fi and a recipe subscription that walks you through pasta dough one step at a time. Flour, eggs and a fork did the same in 1650.

Online

Wi-Fi, Ethernet or cellular. An attacker can be anywhere, and it can collect data.

Cloud-dependent

Needs the maker's servers or app to work, so the maker can switch it off.

Buy the dumb one instead

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