They will tell you that when you had your in-house demo where they will give you a four figure price and hopefully you won’t care about the price because of the sales pitch and pressure from your friends
no sales pressure for me. It just sold itself. My Kenwood had just bitten the dust after many many years and I bought a new one with all the bits for around $1300. A friend invited me to a demo as she had just bought one for her daughter and I said happy to look, but having just bought a new Kenwood, there is zero interest.
After seeing them make a stock paste and various other bits, I was literally begging them to let me buy one
I think you have to enjoy cooking from scratch. If you are the sort of person who adds a tinned sauce to the meat, then it has little attraction.
However there were many things I wanted to do - like make my own stock, for soups and casseroles and was just lazy. It annoyed me that I was buying organic everything, but adding a commercial stock. You can get organic stocks, but they always seem to nuke them with salt.
Now I can make everything - I even buy organic rice and make my own rice flour. 40 seconds on 9 to mill it
. Yes I can buy organic flour, but I use very little of it, but now I can just mill my own when I want to
And the green curry sauce I make is divine - all from real ingredients.
OK that’s enough - I really am part of a cult