This is a very fine restoration of a nice piece of kitchen history, but....a cautionary note: The chemicals used in cold bluing are not food-safe. You could very thoroughly clean the parts (interacting directly with food) with soap, hot water, and a sponge, and if you really want to be sure, you can boil the container in water, and soak it in mineral oil overnight to fully neutralize everything.
My grandmother had one similar to this. My sister and I would take turns churning. It was exhausting, but a sweet reward at the end. Very cool restoration!
My mother always tells me about how all of their cousins and family would meet at a cousin's house and they would make ice cream at home. I was like "How can someone make ice cream at home?" LOL. I guess it would be a similar apparatus.
Haha same here. A while back I watched cheese grater restoration and I actually searched on Google of I can get one like that here in India but no luck
What an interesting design, frozen mixing device in the center and the ice cream base on the outside. I do wish you had left the top wooden portion of the handle unpainted, though. I also have never heard of an award ranking system that included vermeil--where does vermeil sit in the ranking hierarchy?
I agree with you about the top wooden part, i painted it because it was like that before. Vermeil is between silver and gold, because it's gold plating on sterling silver... i think it's typically french 😆
Wonderfully done, sir. I don’t know about the ice cream though? But, that certainly was an enjoyable project to watch. Thank you and see you on your next one.
Great restoration, outstanding work and a beautiful rescue of this masterpiece there is a note regarding the use of food-safe materials such as lead and cold blue
Great job! Tip on the ice cream: To get it hard you have to add salt (rock salt is best but table salt works) to the water in the ice container. It lowers the temperature of the ice.
Lowering the melting temperature of the ice effectively lowers the temperature of the liquid water. Ice Water will maintain a temperature around the melting point of the ice as long as there is still ice in it and it is being circulated. Lowering the melting point of the ice effectively lowers the temperature of the water. Water is what is facilitating heat transfer from the cream to the ice, allowing the water in the cream to reach temps below freezing.
You are right, most ice cream machine use ice with salt 🧂 👍 but this machine is not made to be used with crushed ice and water (like most icecream maker), and it wont work the same 😊
It's typically not considered food safe due to the selenium salts used in it. While it may not exactly be toxic to the point of being poisonous, it's not something I'd want in my body. We never saw him eat it, though, so I'm hoping that was just a little demo and it's going to be a display piece only.
I used bluing only inside of the cup, it's not in contact with food. Also, i protected it with neutral oil. So there are really no problem here, and it will be a decorative piece 😉
Your work is so thorough and beautiful that it takes my breath away. Your humorous performances are sprinkled throughout the video, so you won't get tired of watching it.
I love your technique: never take it so far you have to replace a worn piece. Refurbishing keeps the history of the piece. Of course, if you get really intense and remake all the fittings and smaller pieces, you got a nearly new unit, but it's lost some of its provenance. Your way is good. 😃
Used a parting off tool to carve, and a metal lathe bit too follow. I would have at in least swapped those around. I think this is another RU-vidr with limited machine experience, but enough to fool people with zero
@@RandomPlayIist There isn't one, but you and I both know an internet expert such as Sam cannot possibly JUST watch a video, they absolutely must comment on at least *something* so the world knows he's better than everyone else.
I have to say at first when I read the color you chose, I wasn't sure it would look good, but was gladly mistaken. It's a very nice color. I also questioned the use of the solder and cold bluing if it is safe to use with something that would make food. This was a great restauration! Great idea on the DIY tumbler. Very unique!
I used bluing only inside of the cup, it's not in contact with food. Also, i protected it with neutral oil. So there are really no problem here, and it will be a decorative piece 😉
@@OldThingsNeverDie- isn't that cold bluing on the on the arms kneading the ice? ( at 11:20 ) Nevertheless, I don't think it's a problem in terms of food safety.
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It was our family tradition when my children were growing up in the 1970s and 80s....to make homemade ice cream on the 4th of July. It took a great deal of cranking but the children loved cranking the machine. It tasted so good!
That's the problem I've found with ice cream makers is that if you don't use salt in the water, or some way of cooling the ice cream to freezing temps and keeping it there, you do get mousse.
I've never seen an ice cream churn like that! Usually, the ice cream is made in the metal center container and the ice is packed on the outside around it. It is so beautiful.
@@marcuswilliams6367 It seems to me it would be too hard to get the ice cream out of the rube he froze the water in. The way he did it, seems right. Thaw the ice, pour out the water, clean the outside of ice cream. The bigger container should be easy to get the ice cream out of.
@@kfl611 would just scoop the ice cream straight out of the center before takin out the ice. It’s not a perfect system like today. The ice cream never actually freezes solid. He did another video with the same type of machine and used it properly because of the comments. The ice cream came out much more like ice cream as we know it in the second attempt.
@@marcuswilliams6367 My thought were the center metal container was very star shaped and it seemed to me that it would be hard to get the ice cream out of all those tight spaces.
@@kfl611 oh, naw it should just be a cylinder inside of a cylinder. Can scoop or just lift it out. Been awhile since I watched this video but that’s how the couple I’ve seen worked.
Spectacular work in restoring that beauty. The final product at the end shows great skills of craftsmanship. I wish I had the skills and your patience man!!!
Excellent job, love the video. I think you would’ve been better off not coating the wooden knob on top and just staining it like you did with the wood on the handle. Other than that, it turned out great!
ages have past, since these machines had been coveted, no longer seen as the wonderous piece of human ingenuity that they are. stained and replaced, rusted and worn, these machines wither in silence and suffering. yet even in the cold, uncaring world, unable to see the perfection in even the oldest of machines. there are the faithful, those that know the centuries of curiosity, and hard work, in each of these relics. these faithful few that rip away the cruel chains of rust, and remind these hardworking machines. that no matter how old they are, they will always be the glorious creations of mankind, deserving of respect and admiration. praise the wheel, praise progress
Hey, the latest date is 1879! I hope the solder was lead free 🙈 I think the paddles were zinc plated, definately seemed to be something covering them, I liked the colour choice for the exterior
Great restoration. Something you may already do is after you melt the solder as a last step wipe with a wet towel to give it a clean finish and remove excess solder. You have patience.
Second video I watched after the horse game restoration. Your videos are so satisfying to watch I love how shiny the ice cream maker has become, very pretty.
