Testing ANTIQUE Kitchen Gadgets | Chinese Popcorn Maker feat.  

This would be super fun.

@@SortedFood Not to mention EPIC!

Agreed

or a chef v chef

No don’t get a French chef to cook French. Get them to do something obscure. Much more fun.

Yes! This!

Yesss!

Yes! He’s the perfect, the PERFECT candidate for that! 😂

Give Alex 30 minutes and the normals 1 hour in a battle perhaps

Brilliant idea! @SortedFood Make it happen!

I especially liked how popped millet looked like miniature popcorn. Trust Ann to go the extra mile and make a mini popcorn box to go with it!

I remember a larger version on Mythbusters back in the day.

Got one and works wonders… just not good for people that dislike loud sounds

I saw that too. It looks like fun

I remember a very traditional childhood snacks made with popped rice crisp.. they mix it with hot thick malt syrup and when it is cool down.. they cut it into bite size brick and you eat it like a snack... but the volume they make probably a lot bigger.

🤣 everyone take cover!!!!

@@SortedFood haha. But for real: those ‘safety outfits’ were hilarious. 😂

It is genuinely dangerous, they didn't really seem safe enough with just the glasses. Please, please don't buy this and try it at home yourself.

​@@woutervanrI own one it's not that unsafe people just make out it to be

​@@kobirelf97 I mean, a lot of us are idiots or feel like it. Also, not fancying _my_ odds if I'm more of a gambling man.

I have several and I think the sweet spot for the spiral cut and corers was around the 1950-1970s. once the 1980's came around they were going downhill and some of the most modern ones I have seen are more of a joke than functional.

My mum had one and literally never used it 😂

@@rainydays9967 Oh no! That's kind of sad. I hope someone ended up getting it and showing it some proper love.

I immediately knew it was a peeler from all the Midwest US festivals and fairs, there's always a stand with someone peeling apples with one of these. Always the best caramel apples too

I have one of those spiral cutters! I think I paid 50 cents for it. It works very well! I don’t use it a ton but it is nice

Now I need yall to do this on a short or something. Someone link me when they do!

@@karencarriere8104 If they don't do a short, search youtube for goodell turntable 1898 apple peeler and you'll find a few different videos of people demonstrating how they work.

I also have one with a kick-off. Mine is made in Reading Pennsylvania. It does not look like their model has the kick-off.

@@farmerboybill Every Turntable 98 came with the lever push off. I can see the cam on the gear that activates the lever, so if the lever's not there, then it's either broken or missing. I got mine a few years ago for $35, so considering they paid £100 for it, it'd be a real shame if it's incomplete.

There are more modern versions of this general design that will core the apple if you keep cranking.

You should see the ones we have in Sweden. They peel, circle cut AND de-core the apple all in one. Used for making dried apple rings or delicious snacks

Oh this is a great idea.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! brilliant

That could be hilarious!

Or a pass-it-on where they can only use Easy Bake ovens.

Salmon prepared in the popcorn maker

I hope it has a well designed security valve, else this thing is really a ticking time bomb.

I was just looking for something like that, thanks!

I love Ann reardon I really recommend her it's how I found this channel it popped up watching her 😂

This! The amount of disgust at the classic cutter :D Like every stereotypical french chef in every movie ever made :D

As a French myself that makes him unbearable to watch. He is the perfect stereotype, if not caricature of a French man.

makes sense when you surround a french with three brits lol

And don't use the cheap gloves that come with it!

Oh oh thank you I got super excited seeing this and wondered if it could be a successful vendor at like festivals and stuff

Ann Reardon's popcorns weren't rounded like this one, perhaps the amount of pressure can yield different results. In Southeast Asia, these rounded shaped popcorns are more the premium side on the market since you have to use this pressure device to yield the rounded result and it should be crispier.

do you have a link to the video?

Ive seen rice puffed with this little thing.

Excellent idea!

@@SortedFood, yes please!!!

This. So this. It would be fun to see if Alex gets as frustrated as the guys when they did it.

Absolutely!!

in all fairness, many of them probably have safety standards that could make them double as one when you use it alternatively, the term hacking for using something functionally in a different way than its intended use existed long before home computers were a thing. when you're in the torture business, you may similarly find some hacking (pun intended) here and there kitchen appliance and torture device isn't a truly mutually exclusive category, could be both, sure, they're probably sold and advertised as kitchen appliances, but that's just a label they stick on it man, whichever target audience sells the most product, money makes the world go round, and observations seem to indicate that on average, people appear to engage more in the activity of cooking and preparing food, than they do in the activity of torturing people, it is what it is. but if we're going to get worked up about the intended use of devices, you'll find that very little things are in fact torture devices, when you think outside of that restrictive paradigm.... you will find that many, many things are torture devices in function, the possibilities are limitless. gotta think outside the box when you don't want to put them inside of a box right away, and play with them a bit first. if you're going to just indisciminately butcher and phone it in with little to no regard or respect for the process, you may as well let the machines take over, as there's no pride left in your work, instruments like these are.. instrumental in the true craftsman torture business

​@@dutchdykefingeryou okay there buddy?

@@darthsidious1959 i'm jolly well ok can't speak for the guy i was just working with a vise and a chisel gotta get back to work now, ttyl

​​@@dutchdykefinger blender I could see working for a torture device. Example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I92qnzio-oY.html

@haamschaar congrats on one of the best comments on youtube lmao

Also, the American Northeast is HUGE on apples. Areas like New York are big in apple production. Growing up I had an apple peeler similar to this one (just, more modern).

i wonder if you can replace the handle with a powerdril. Like make it even more easy and quick

I looked at the apple peeler and thought "Apple butter!"

As someone who does preserve a ton of food all throughout the year, my apple peeler is essential. I preserve around 200 lbs of apples every year and can apple sauce, pie filling, jams, and jellies. My peeler is very similar to the one they have in the video (passed down from my grandma) and it works great on pears too.

My grandmother had one that cored and sliced also. She lived next to an old apple orchard 🍏

Glad you enjoyed the video 😁

I loved the little jabs about “this would be fancy in London”

Oh wow, that's amazing.

Apple peeler slicer corer?

Ditto.

Yes! I remember this, didn't have one. Think French Guy doesn't get that it was for home cooks way before there were cooking videos. The Classy Cutter was Classy.

I completely agree. Alex’s sense of humor is on par and the easygoing relationship between all of you is evident. We want more collabs between Sorted and Alex.

Definitely! If it's not broken, don't try and fix it.

In the comment section below a previous video, they had no time to film an episode yet

@@abc1234567892606 😔

I think he brings back the pessimistic sass I miss from James.

His 3 ingredients: ramen, butter, and ramen

He brings the sass that has been missing a bit since James left!

In the last video they said that unfortunately they didn't have time to do a burger challenge with Alex

That would be so much fun and chaos!

GREAT IDEA!

They also screwed up the facts. It's impossible for a popcorn maker to have been invented in China in 960 when corn itself was not known in China until at least 1493.

@@obrysii It is a rice puffer. Using it for popcorn came much later. I would like to know how Quaker made puffed wheat and puffed rice. Their slogan once was "Shot from cannons". Sounds a lot like this method.

I've seen the big ones go wrong. It was quite explosive. It was about the size of an old metal garbage can.

Every vessel that ends up under internal pressure is effectively a bomb.

But really, pretty ingenious for over 900 years ago.

I'm sure you can buy a new version of it. I just googled "iron apple peeler" and there's lots of results.

Ya Like unless you in few of the big cities like SF or new york you generally have a lot of space for just random crap lol. I think some time as American forget how much space we have compared to a lot of other countries lol.

@@karencarriere8104 I have had new versions of this, the way they work isn't like this. They normally a horizontal range of notion that doesn't really work that great for mishappen fruits.

how do you freeze pies? just assemble and freeze?

@@guguigugu I assume you freeze it before you bake. Never made pies but our family do make a ton of dumpling st once and freeze them. Then just take them out to cook whenever, very convenient.

oh but it certainly Ebbered

Ann Reardon did on her channel How to Cook That. It worked really well.