Yet another burns case as a result of Thermomix has come to light, and this time it involved a toddler.
In 2014, mum Heidi Brennan was holding her 16-month-old baby girl Caitlin on her hip while cooking corned beef with the kitchen appliance in her Melbourne home.
It made a strange noise so she turned off her Thermomix TM31 but the lid flew off, showering the pair in scalding water.
Little Caitlin (who is now three) suffered second-degree burns on her arm, and her mum Heidi was burned on her face and shoulders.
“It made a funny sound so I turned it off and I tried to see myself if there was anything wrong which I couldn’t,” Heidi told Daily Mail.
“The machine had built up enough pressure that it flew off.”
“It’s got a hole at the top which is supposed to release all the pressure but in my case it got blocked so it turned in to a pressure cooker.”
Heidi, a paramedic, reported the incident to the company and although they sounded initially concerned, once they learned she wasn’t cooking a Thermomix recipe, Heidi says they shied away from taking responsibility.
Heidi had actually found the corned beef recipe on a forum for Thermomix users, but after the burn incident, the recipe was removed and she was sent a new machine free of charge.
Despite contacting the company on several occasions, Heidi claims she never received an apology.
This comes as it was last reported by consumer advocacy group Choice that Thermomix was responsible for a whopping 87 burns cases.
The Thermomix products identified in these cases were TM31 (the model Heidi was using) and TM5.
A particularly nasty case was of a Perth mum who received second-degree burns to her chest, arms and stomach after her Thermomix exploded.
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