Cookidoo in Canada: Pricing, Free Trial, and How It Works with the TM7

The Short Answer

Cookidoo is Vorwerk's online recipe platform. It is the library, the meal planner, and the Guided Cooking engine that turns the Thermomix TM7 from a powerful appliance into a step-by-step kitchen assistant. You browse and plan recipes on the web or in the iOS and Android apps, then send any recipe straight to your TM7 touchscreen with one tap. The TM7 runs the recipe for you: time, temperature, and blade speed all advance automatically.

Every new TM7 sold in Canada includes a free Cookidoo trial. After the trial, a Cookidoo Premium subscription is billed annually in Canadian dollars. The platform is fully bilingual in English and French Canadian, with regional collections built for Canadian pantries and seasons.

What Cookidoo Actually Is

Cookidoo has three faces, and you will use all of them:

1. The web app at cookidoo.ca/cookidoo.thermomix.ca, for browsing recipes on a laptop, building a weekly meal plan, generating a grocery list, and managing your account.
2. The Cookidoo mobile app on iOS and Android, for the same browsing and planning on the go, including grocery list sync.
3. The Cookidoo experience inside the TM7 touchscreen, where you search the catalogue, pick a recipe, and cook it under Guided Cooking.

All three views share the same account. A recipe you favourite on your phone shows up on the TM7. A grocery list you build on the web shows up in the app for shopping. There is no separate "TM7 version" of a recipe versus a "phone version", it is one platform with three windows into it.

How Guided Cooking Works with Cookidoo

This is the part that surprises people who have only used regular smart appliances.

When you select a Cookidoo recipe on the TM7 screen, you are not just reading instructions. The recipe is structured as a series of executable steps. Each step contains:

• The ingredient to add and its weight (the TM7 scale tares automatically).
• The time, temperature, and blade speed for that step.
• A short instruction telling you what to do as a human (close the lid, scrape the sides, transfer to the Varoma, etc.).

You tap "Start" on a step, the TM7 sets itself to the correct time, temperature, and speed, and the step runs. When it finishes, the screen moves on to the next step. The recipe ends when the last step is done. There is no guesswork about whether you set the right speed, whether the temperature is high enough, or whether the timer is still running.

If you want to deviate, you can. The TM7 has a manual mode for free-form cooking, and Cookidoo recipes can be edited or scaled. Most people use Guided Cooking for ninety percent of what they make and manual mode for sautéing onions or reducing a sauce.

For a deeper explanation of how the TM7 hardware enables this, see what is a Thermomix.

The Recipe Library

Cookidoo holds over 100,000 tested recipes across all its regional libraries, with new recipes added weekly. The catalogue covers:

• Weeknight family meals, batch cooking, and meal prep
• Baking (bread, cakes, cookies, pastry, sourdough)
• International cuisines (Italian, French, Mexican, Indian, Thai, Chinese, and many more)
• Dietary tracks (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, keto, low-sodium, diabetes-friendly)
• Drinks, sauces, condiments, baby food, and pet food
• Special-occasion menus for holidays and entertaining

The Canadian Cookidoo library specifically curates recipes for Canadian shoppers: ingredients you can find at Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, IGA, and Costco; metric and imperial units; and seasonal collections aligned with the Canadian calendar (think back-to-school batch cooking in September, holiday baking in December, sugar shack recipes in spring).

You are not republishing or downloading recipes here. Cookidoo streams them to the TM7 on demand. That means your recipe library stays current automatically as Vorwerk adds and updates content.

Cookidoo Free vs Cookidoo Premium

Cookidoo has two tiers:

The honest answer: if you own a TM7, you need Cookidoo Premium. The free browsing tier is useful for window shopping recipes before you buy a machine, but Guided Cooking on the TM7 requires the paid subscription. The free tier does not stream recipes to the appliance.

This is also why a Cookidoo subscription on its own, without a Thermomix, has limited utility. You can read the recipes and even cook them by hand the old-fashioned way, but the platform was designed to drive the machine. Subscribing without owning a Thermomix is like buying a Spotify subscription with no speakers.

What You Get with a New TM7 Purchase

Every Thermomix TM7 bought through an authorized Vorwerk consultant in Canada includes:

• A free 3-month Cookidoo Premium trial, activated automatically through the TM7 touchscreen at first setup
• Full bilingual access to English and French Canadian content
• Automatic syncing between the web, the apps, and your TM7 touchscreen
• Free shipping on the TM7 when you order through my consultant link (Vorwerk's standard $75 shipping fee is waived)

After the trial, you can renew Cookidoo Premium annually. If you do not renew, the TM7 still works in manual mode, but Guided Cooking and the full recipe library go offline. Most TM7 owners renew, because Guided Cooking is the reason they bought the machine.

For the full TM7 purchase walkthrough including current pricing, see the Thermomix TM7 launch page.

Cookidoo for Consultants

Active Vorwerk Canada consultants get Cookidoo perks that retail customers do not, including a complimentary or discounted Cookidoo Premium subscription as part of consultant compensation, plus early access to new regional collections and consultant-only recipe content for client events. Specific perk terms are confirmed during consultant onboarding with Vorwerk Canada.

Consultants get Cookidoo perks retail customers don't. Become a Thermomix consultant in Canada if you cook with Cookidoo regularly and want the rest of the kitchen to come with the role.

Subscribing to Cookidoo Without Owning a Thermomix

Some people land here asking whether they can use Cookidoo standalone, as just a recipe app on their phone, without buying a TM7. Technically yes. You can hold a Cookidoo Premium subscription, browse the full library, and cook the recipes manually on your stovetop with your own scale and timer.

In practice, this is rare for a few reasons:

• Cookidoo recipes are written for the TM7's hardware (specific blade speeds, sensor-controlled temperatures, integrated weighing).
• Many recipes assume the Varoma steamer or specific TM7 accessories.
• The Guided Cooking layer (the part most people are paying for) is unavailable on a phone screen.

If you do not own a Thermomix, the better way to evaluate Cookidoo is to read what a Thermomix is first, then decide if the appliance plus the platform is the right call. The platform is built to drive the appliance.

Languages and Regional Collections

Cookidoo is available in dozens of languages globally. For Canadian buyers, the two that matter are English (Canadian English library, with North American measurement units and pantry assumptions) and French (the Canadian French library, with Quebec-specific recipes, Quebec ingredient names, and metric measurements).

You can switch between English and French Canadian inside your account at any time. The TM7 touchscreen language follows your account preference, and the mobile app can be set independently. This matters for bilingual households where one cook prefers English and another prefers French. Both can use the same TM7 and the same Cookidoo account, each in their own language.

For the FR experience, see Cookidoo au Canada.

Bottom Line

If you are buying a TM7 in Canada, Cookidoo is not optional, it is the operating system. The free trial included with your new TM7 purchase covers your first 3 months, and after that the annual subscription is $89 CAD per year, a small fraction of what you spent on the machine. Combined with the free shipping offer on the TM7 itself, the total first-year out-of-pocket cost is the machine price plus zero, since shipping is waived and Cookidoo is included for the trial period.

Ready to order? Every CTA on this page routes through my Vancouver-based consultant link, so the $75 shipping fee disappears at checkout automatically. If you still have questions, the TM7 launch guide covers the hardware in full.