5 Vintage Kitchen Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

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1. Are snow cones similar with the Slurpee?

2. I grew up where my grandma used sliced string beans as a salad with vinaigrette salad sauce.
   Or she pickled the sliced string beans just like cabbage (Sauerkraut).
   Or she made fresh sliced string beans with mashed potatoes. You just needed the right herbs like savory for it.
   It all tasted wonderful, but after my grandmother died nobody made this anymore. She had a different device to cut up string beans and it got thrown out when she died (like many of her kitchen appliances).

3. Try juicero lol

4. Is there a website for his improvement gadgets?

5. Juice-o-Mat – I've got something pretty similar, but more vintage – by I'm guessing about 20 more years or so, and
   Mine is much better design and construction, and works much better. And that cone thingy – while still mostly that, much better construction and design – lots more ridges and stuff – I think that also helps it work much better, as it's not nearly so smooth, and digs into the citrus as it's squeezed – but not so much to get stuck – seems to help quite a bit and works very well. I frequently use mine on grapefruit. I find it highly quick and efficient, and pretty easy clean-up too.

6. French fry cutter – I have something sort'a similar but much simpler, and it works quite well enough.
   First tip – and per the instructions – it says to cut the ends off – but actually just cutting off the leading end will do – and not all that much, just bit of a slice – that makes the initial push much easier – and after that it's not too hard. But mine is also much simpler – it's just a cast frame, and rather than blades, stainless steel wires – does it quite good enough. And, I also improved it from the original. Originally the wires were just criss-cross – and the tended to shift and move a fair bit when doing the deed. Well – I think it was like one screw – I restrung mine, so instead of just two layers of wires going across, they actually weave like a cloth. Same pattern but a much better more solid pattern – and much better cut results. And … it takes up helluva lot less room in the kitchen for what it does, compared to that complicated contraption. Just hold the potato to start, cut end up, press the cutter form thing down – no blades to cut oneself on – just stainless steel wires … and quickly cuts potatoes into french fry size – and nice and uniform. And faster and more uniform than knife. But, I dunno … I think the knife is more fun … even if it takes longer and isn't as uniform … but maybe that's just me.

7. I have one of those French-fry cutters! And I put it on top of a cutting board on the ground and step on the handle all the time!

8. Who doesn't peel the potatoe first before making chips, lame.

9. Amazing the ice > snow machine ! It really seems crystal meth, wow I could do easy billions selling snow, pretending is meth to my dear friends

10. I like a good juice loosener.

11. We had a Miricle French Fry Cutter when I was growing up (even down to the same box) and even as a little kid of 9 or 10, I had no issues with it. It was new then though.

12. my parents have this french fry press thingy – its been sitting there for over 30 years and i still don't know if it ever was used.

13. ‘Ok dear I will now oil my hand to see how well you function’

14. Love this guy!!!

15. Yeah , I really put a lot of faith in whomever has been designing/producing whatever trash implements we've tried over the last 40 years.
    I can't help but wonder , also , where his weak hand oil test originated and if it dint involve a small woodland creature.

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17. Here in Colombia are some Ice cone stands that have something similar to the Ice Pet but it is all made of iron and the press is above all the mechanism. We call it cholados.

18. My family has an ancient juice o mat that
    Looks much different in the inside and gets most of the juice out, it’s definitely more dome shaped. The secret is flipping the citrus over at the end and squeezing again too.

19. The juicer is designed for a smaller fruit than what we're used to today. The wedge shape was designed to smash and spread a small fruit out more efficiently. The fact that you still have a recognizable half of the orange instead of a ripped out cone husk is the most telling part. Your fruit was too big.

20. The french fry machine works well enough if you peel the potatoes then slice the potato in half and run it through.

21. So the french fry cutter reminds me of the ones used at In n' Out burgers. They have them mounted vertically however. Looks like you have better leverage that way.

22. In what dimension is an orange red??

23. i have a fri maker in plastic, like the metal one you showed, it works fine, wet the potatoes first.

24. The french fry machine is also something I struggle using it. The lever is hard to push.

25. If you don't even know how to operate a spud cutter it just shosws how you're an idiot!!!

26. The potatoe gadget I have like that were for boil potatoes. Boil early. Then cool chop fry. I never thought of using it on raw potatoes. I'll bet that's be a chore.

27. There's so many dan-isms now "I have a strong sense of self-preservation", "It's purpose in life", "handed-oil test" LOL

28. "Why do eggs have a pointy side?" Have you ever tried to squeeze an egg out your butt? I don't think we need to ask the chicken, but instead sympathize with it.

29. Everytime i see the potatoes slicer it looks sooo.. Much like the Foot Pump!! 😅😅😆😂🤣🤣😅😆🙂🙃😂😂😆😅🤣🤣😅😆😆

30. I always enjoy Grandpa's talking about inventions

31. For the juicer, I would assume the insert is a cone rather than a dome to account for the varying diameter of fruits.
    A small orange will use the top of the cone, a large orange will use a larger portion of the cone. Neither are 100% effective, but both will work.
    If you went with a dome, it will work perfectly for an orange with the same diameter as the dome, but it would only get a small portion of a larger orange, and a smaller orange would… get flattened? I'm not actually sure the latter is a problem.
    It might actually make more sense to have an inverted dome (bowl) instead and just embrace that you will be crushing the fruit.

32. Ice pet could crate cabbage

33. 14:35 There are both the same XD

34. Oh, thank You for this testing. It's strange construction for cuisine. Good luck. Hello from Russia.

35. We used to ha French fry cutter

36. The French fry one is just a smaller less efficient version of what is used I restaurants. They have a larger lever and sharper blades, and attach to the counter.

37. "Oh yeah, it tastes better…….. just kidding" …I literally laughed out loud when he said this. Nice one😁👍🏻

38. dan formosa i appreciate you ……thank you

39. Potato being solid hard, there can't be any easy manual slicer for it most parts it's either slicing it or the jerk mechanism , unless there is an electric option.

40. I cracked up at how the modern juicer is designed to look even older than the vintage.

41. I little banana liquor wold be nice on shaved ice.

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