I'm super excited for Dave's new book. You can pre-order it now 🎉 📖USA : amzn.to/3wrQwqv 📖Worldwide 🌏 www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/deep-enders-deadline/
@@goodlightdays I know! Every time I see one of her videos I'm genuinely blown away at her intelligence and talent. Truly a brilliant individual! Absolutely love her channel.
Can we appreciate the level of production Ann puts into this? buying and restoring an old gadget, finding and printing a dozen of patents, and those miniatures with their background? so good, every time. Too bad youtube won't give enough recognition to the best channels.
I have a 1930s Mixmaster. It is my everyday mixer and works beautifully. I did get it serviced about 20 years ago from a guy who completely rebuilds them. He was a collector of Mixmasters and I had the last attachment he needed to complete his collection, the bean bean slicer. So he rebuilt my machine for free. It worked before but ran like new afterwards and had fresh paint and decal
I grew up,with a Mixmaster that Mom got as a wedding present in 1946! It always worked perfectly! I,loved it but having to hold the bowl spinning used to bother me? I eventually bought a Kitchen Aide somewhere around 60+ years later
Please share the guy's contact info if he is amenable. I have an old kitchenaid mixer that needs some love. It is from the 60s, but still one of the best appliances ever. Wish they made things to last like they used to.
watching the egg whisking with the sticks makes me wonder - who was the mad genius who first spent an hour whisking egg whites with a bundle of twigs to discover the magic of stiff peaks? can’t imagine someone going through all that seemingly futile effort without knowing what the end result would be or how it could then be used. edit: oooh congrats dave on the award and the sequel! keeping my eyes peeled for the release.
once I had a friend ask me a similar question "who do you think was the first guy to try cows milk, did they try other animals too?" I love to think that our ancestors ages back were all this try and see kind of folks.
I can't help but think it started has busy work to keep your kids out of your hair for a while. Like when a dad asks his kids to organize the miss match nails bucket and straighten the crooked one...
@@gergokerekes4550 I'm guessing animal milks were tested to feed infants when mothers couldn't. We know nowadays that it isn't a great idea and we have better alternatives, but if you disregard the knowledge we have nowadays, it's really not a wild idea. People have been milking all sorts of farm animals for the longest times, they used whichever mammals were available locally and big enough for it to be worth it, sheep, goats, donkeys, yaks, horses... Cows produce a lot of extra milk compared to horses and donkeys, so the former is affordable, used in many by-products, whereas the latter are more luxurious (a woman who sells horse milk says that you can milk somewhere between 1 and 2L per day, compared to about 4L per day for a beef cow and up to 28L per day for a modern dairy cow), used primarily in cosmetics and the like. I'm guessing groups of people discovered it independently in many places in the world, and therefore on many different animals, but I don't think there's a way to be sure.
This brought back a memory! I was born in 1962 and my parents had a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Everything ran off generators. After 7pm it candles and lanterns only. We had a large walk-in fridge freezer and that was the only thing that still ran on the generator at night. There were no fancy modcons. Toast was made over a fire in the wood stove (still the best way to make toast) and everything was cooked in that or over a camp fire/BBQ. I'm sure it was horrendous for Mum but she did have 2 helpers, and a cook for the many Jackaroos' food. I remember the last thing you showed - the hand-cranked "sunbeam" mixer. I always asked to whip the eggs as I thought it was fascinating and I don't remember it being hard. Thanks for the memory! ❤❤
Glad to find out I am ancient, j/k. When I was a kid in the 70's, we had one of those apple peelers. Was a lifesaver when peeling several hundred apples for canning. We would leave the little bits of peel on the apples for a bit of texture. Then take the peelings and feed them to the pigs.
I usually would drop the peels - any I hadn’t eaten! 🤣 - into a bit of water and boil them to extract the apple juice, which I would then put back into my apple sauce or apple butter. I do love my apple corer-peeler-slicer! It’s really the only way to go if you are doing whole boxes of apples. I won’t get it out if I’m only doing one apple pie, though. Then the cleaning is more trouble than it’s worth for the 5-8 apples.
Ann: I need a sort of special tool... Dave: Time machine 🤣 Congratulations to Dave for his new book, and thank you both for being such a wonderful couple!
@@goosiechild”What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9, written no more recently than 180 BC
@@ckdraws410 I bet he would've changed his mind pretty quickly if he learned about aircraft, telephones, smartphones, the Internet, movies, videogames....
Im absolutely floored by the physical timeline you constructed 🤩 What a lovely editing choice. And the level of artistry! Those tiny stand mixers are so well made i wonder how sculpting the beaters was even possible
Totally. This woman is like an octopus when it comes to skills. (Or maybe I can say she has as many skills as a centipede has legs). Hm. Animal analogy still lacking. Anyone have a better one? 😅
I have a 1930’s patent sunbeam mixmaster, I don’t think it was made in the 30’s though,it was given to my nana as a wedding gift in 1956 from her mothe, it could have very well been second hand and the same one her mother had used while she was growing up as her parents were very poor all her life due to her father liking the drink much too much. My nana used it all the time up until about a year before she died (she passed Boxing Day 2010) when she was finally too sick, she taught me to bake with it and when I was 18 (2014) and got really into baking my grandy gifted my nana’s mix master for Christmas that year. It still works to this day, I don’t use it all the time because of its age and sentimental value to me, but I do use it for special occasions. After it was gifted to me I made all of my grandy’s birthday cakes in it using my nana’s special cake recipe up until he passed in 2017. Now I use it to make my son’s birthday cake every year, just to keep it running and make sure it’s still working. It came with 2 different size mixing Bowles, as well as an electric orange juicer attachment, all are still in very good working condition. The dial even has what each level what should be used for written on it, there is even a dial level for beating egg whites, level 8 of 11 I think from memory. It is one of my most prized possessions and I hope to start teaching my son to back with it for his 3rd birthday cake this year in July and hopefully one day even pass it on to him.
That sounds great! Someone up in the comments (melinda adams 6520 or something) wrote that there is a Mixmaster collector who repaired her mixer. He might not live anywhere near you but give it a thought to show him your device once so that it can truly stay a heirloom. ❤
Maybe soaking longer birch sticks in water, they'll become pliable and could be bent into "horseshoe" shapes with the ends meeting together. Then arrange and tie them together to resemble and act like a more modern whisk.
Ann is usually pretty good at background research, though, so maybe there is something (a description, a painting, etc) to support the size and number of sticks she used. @@wobblysauce, yes, I saw a video recently showing how traditional matcha tea whisks are made from bamboo & it was amazing how it has so many strands from just splitting a single piece repeatedly.
Years ago, my mom made a willow whisk at our lapland cabin when she couldn't find the metal one. She used many(15 or so) smaller sticks bound together to make it easier for me to use (us kids were the designated beaters in the kitchen)
They look really satisfying to use, you get the feeling of accomplishment without your arm aching all day. I've whipped cream and egg whites with a whisk and it's honestly miserable
My mother had a handheld rotary egg beater when I was little, that I loved to play with. There was just something so fascinating about watching the beaters spin! Lol
Townsends have used stick whisks quite successfully and I believe they sell them on their website as well. The ones they use definitely have more sticks, and a bit thinner too.
I love my rotary beater. It's my favorite tool in the kitchen. I use it to mix cake batter, pancake batter, scrambled eggs, whisking egg whites, etc. I love it.
All those gadgets are awesome and the best part is none of them requieres electricity to work. Also, congrats to Dave for being a succesful writer 👏👏👏.
There's a old time American cooking channel, Townsend's I think, and he's always making those wood whisks and using them. His have a lot more sticks and the sticks are smaller too
Congratulations, Dave! Love the Clever or Never series! I felt your pain with the whisks, remembering when I made whipped cream with a fork when studying abroad (took an hour). Didn't have my gadgets and I MISSED them! I'd love that little Aussie mixer NOW!
It's always nice to watch your videos after a long tiring day🥹 I like this series, it makes me more interested on tools more, especially the ancient/ older ones.❤
Ann I’m a 20 yo who has recently moved out of home and am working and in uni. Life is good but stressful sometimes but ur videos make my day every time, you make this life a little less stressful 🔥🔥🔥💗💗
I'm giving this entire video a Clever! 👍 Seriously, the amount of thought that goes into these videos is great. It's not just the research or format. It's the little details. You didn't have to make a physical miniature scene to display the time line of inventions. You could have just shown pictures or talked about it, but the miniatures are much more interesting to look at. I appreciate the your attention to detail and the effort behind it.
Hand whisking 😮💨 I am truly a fool. The other day, I needed to whisk the whites of a single egg, and in my genius, I figured it would be quicker (and quieter) to not bother with the stand mixer. I quickly regretted it. Anyway, Congrats to Dave for the award for the Deep Enders!! And as always I'm always amazed by Anns industriousness, restoring the peeler so nicely. It probably needs a new rivet or something.
In my 20's, long ago, I decided to make my first lemon pie. I only had a hand mixer. And for some reason, I put foil in a steamer bowl and whisked like mad. As you can imagine, failed totally. Didn't try again for 30 years, but the next time I had an electric mixer and used a glass bowl. Magic! 😂
The secret for hand mixing egg whites is to go at it with slower and wider movements at first and go progressively faster and firmer. This technique alone replaced electric mixers completely for me
Honestly back in the 90s we had two different kind of more modern apple peelers with a similar idea but the old one Ann restored would have beaten both of them especially the newer one.
My father has a kitchen scale from the 50s at home and still uses it today, because the electrical ones always keep breaking at some point and the trusty iron monster keeps on working and working. 70+ years and still going strong. It has build in weights for measurements. I've learned to bake my first cakes with that scale when I was a child. Pretty cool, when I think about it.
My parents still have one of those apple peeling devices. Theirs doesn't push it off afterwards, but it does core it for you. Very useful when you have apple trees! Dad also has a birch twig whisk, but he uses it for mixing sauces in non-stick pans so they don't get scratched.
I am 65 and live in Canada. When I was younger we used both the apple peeler and the crank-type beater. We got an electric beater but still used the hand crank for eggs and blending more liquid type things.
I grew up in the 1960s and we always had a hand rotary mixer in 1973 we got an electric hand mixer. But still kept the rotary one. I made all our cakes with the rotary mixer as well as whipped cream.❤
Honestly, my favorite part of this video is watching Dave and Ann interact with each other. They obviously love each other a lot. Great work Ann, I love your videos!
11:54. My mother received a sunbeam mix master with all the attachments for her wedding in 1941. It was still working (minus the bowls broken by myself and my brother, they were replaced) until mother passed in 2010.
In my "recently out of school" years, all I had was a rotary beater, and decided to make a recipe that required egg whites stiff peaks while my parents were visiting. It took a lot of work churning that handle around, but finally stiff peaks were achieved. Then, during the next Christmas, my mom gave me an hand electric mixer, telling me that while it was impressively done with the rotary beater, I really needed this. I still have that little workhorse of a mixer.
I was born in the seventies and my grand-mother was using one of those whisks. It was quite satisfying to use. She also had a manual bread slicer that I am still using sometimes.
Loving Dave's Twenty-One Pilots hoodie and the Noah Kahan reference with that sneaky "season of the sticks" 😂 Congrats on finishing the second book! And thanks for another fascinating video, Ann ❤
Congrats Dave on finishing another book! We're all so proud of you. I love the Clever or Never series, and the antique gadgets were so fun! I hope to see more in the future, I think it was more interesting than some of the dropshipped items going around tiktok.
I love these clever or never videos. Was fascinating learning about the evolution of whiskers and testing these gadgets was pretty cool to see. Also a huge congrats on Dave for his award!! I am very happy for him and I wish him success on his second book!!
I saved my uncle's rusty tools with baking in oil too, but since I have no electrolosis tools, I had to soak them in vinegar & kosher salt for hours & scrub them down with copper scrubbies. Worked for some old cast iron pans too.
I have a fascination with old mixers! I have my grandmother’s Sunbeam Mixmaster, her Hamilton Beach from the 60’s, and her avocado green Sunbeam hand mixer from the 70’s!
It's always nice to watch your videos after a long tiring day🥹 I like this series, it makes me more interested on tools more, especially the ancient/ older ones.❤
We had a manual beater like that antique one when I was a kid in the 80s, I'm sure it was an antique my parents had gotten from one of their parents. I used to love using it, the fact that it works so well for being just cranked always amazed me.
man the grip strength of old school bakers must have been insane. "Whisk for one hour..." Of course until the repetitive stress injuries began to compound.
Makes me realise why my nan- who was one hell of a baker- was built as stocky as they come. That woman was hand whisking for hours every day. Must've had muscles on muscles.
I worked in a kitchen once where everything had to be done from scratch and often by hand. My arms were very strong because I was working hard for hours every day, kneading, chopping, stirring and carrying. You don't realise how much work is involved in food preparation until all our gadgets, ready-made ingredients and packet mixes are taken away.
I still own and use that Sunbeam MixMaster from the 50s! It was my grandmother's and she used it her whole life and when I purchased her house on her passing it was still in her kitchen. So there it stayed! Going strong!
We used to have a cranked hand whisker that I really thought was clever. I'm lazy in weird ways and thought that getting out the electric whisk and setting it up was more of a bother than the cranked whisk 🤣
9:35 grew up with one at our cabin I absolutely love it In stead in a fork or a regular whisk and having to pull out a electric beater or mixer Id use it in modern times
My family went digging in basements to find an old egg whisk for me years ago. My children have extreme noise sensitives and the electric mixer was both scary and overwhelming for them. They've been helping me in kitchen ever since we got that hand beater. I think the Austrian one would be brilliant even today for autistic families
14:30 Pedestal & desk fans that were powered by mains pressure water by screwing them onto a kitchen tap used to be common. Hydraulic machinery in factories used to use water too, the larger cities(London & Sydney have them) use to have a centralised hydraulic plant that powered all the factories in the area.
I remember using something like like that rotary mixer when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I guess mum didn't trust me with the electric one, lol. And congrats, Dave!
I really enjoy your videos especially the ones with your family involved. It’s like being around your kitchen bench discussing the history of cooking ❤
i have been binge watching your old video, only recently came across your channel but enjoy it greatly me and my husband do, and i like this series i am due to go buy some kitchen things so this might help
@@HowToCookThat i love my ye olde stuff, charity shops on Glasgow are just wonderful xx thanks for getting in touch and tell your hubby good luck with the book x
9:51 We have one of these that we use almost exclusively for eggs. It's much faster than using a hand whisk and easier than dragging the electric beater out and plugging it in and everything.
I inherited via my aunt via my grandmother via my great grandmother and possibly my great great grandmother before her - an iron nutmeg grater which has stamped on it 'Patented June 7, 1870". I still use it to grind nutmeg today.
My grandfather was an inventor, they still have some of his patented aerospace manufacturing techniques in use. He and his friends/co-workers created many useful products (including the Waltco liftgate). One of those friends invented a can crusher. It mounted on the wall, had a metal part that pushed down on the top of the can when you pulled the lever. My grandfather had the first working prototype in his garage and we'd earn a quarter for every bag of cans that we'd crush for him. It was ok, but the new versions of it that you can find on the market, are refined and have guides keep that metal crusher part in place. The one we used was wild, it might spit the can out at you at a high rate of speed (aluminum cans were much thicker then, too). These gadgets and the blueprints reminded me of that and many other fun things that came and went through my grandpa's garage. ❤
I remember those old rotary beaters. My family had one and I think I had one when I was a young mother, at least until I acquired an electric beater. Nowadays, I just whisk with a wire whisk. Much easier than getting out and setting up the electric beater.
Really liked seeing these used and the history behind them. My mom's Christmas cookie dough batter - was an old European recipe and took 4-1/2 cups of flour to 1 cup of soft butter and an egg. No other liquid, plus one cup of ground nuts and one cup of sugar. Our mixer couldn't handle the dough so hand-stirring was done and boy was it tough. But they were delicious cookies put into a press. Thank you Ann and Dave.
You seem to be the type of mom I hope to be lol There's gentle parenting that leads to iPad tyrant kids, then there's your gentle parenting where kids are happy
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I'm super excited for Dave's new book. You can pre-order it now 🎉 📖USA : amzn.to/3wrQwqv
📖Worldwide 🌏 www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/deep-enders-deadline/
Many congratulations are in order for Dave 🎉
Hey Ann, you have a typo in the title. You wrote tersted instead of tested.
These are my favourite books! Along with The Hobbit 😁
HUGE congrats to Dave for getting the award!! Such a big accomplishment!! You must be proud Ann
Congrats Dave!
Others make 20-minute videos about restoring antique devices - Ann casually restored an antique device just to get started with her video 👏
On point. This girl. Her skill level is so above normal. 😅
@YolandaBKool : I thought about that, too!
@@goodlightdays I know! Every time I see one of her videos I'm genuinely blown away at her intelligence and talent. Truly a brilliant individual! Absolutely love her channel.
Not to mention the miniature presentation. 😅
I loved those too!
Can we appreciate the level of production Ann puts into this? buying and restoring an old gadget, finding and printing a dozen of patents, and those miniatures with their background? so good, every time. Too bad youtube won't give enough recognition to the best channels.
A fusion of 200-year series and Clever or Never?! Hell yeah
It's like I dreamed it into reality! 😂
_And_ the miniature kitchen, courtesy of the mini-mixer models!
I have a 1930s Mixmaster. It is my everyday mixer and works beautifully. I did get it serviced about 20 years ago from a guy who completely rebuilds them. He was a collector of Mixmasters and I had the last attachment he needed to complete his collection, the bean bean slicer. So he rebuilt my machine for free. It worked before but ran like new afterwards and had fresh paint and decal
I grew up,with a Mixmaster that Mom got as a wedding present in 1946! It always worked perfectly! I,loved it but having to hold the bowl spinning used to bother me? I eventually bought a Kitchen Aide somewhere around 60+ years later
Please share the guy's contact info if he is amenable. I have an old kitchenaid mixer that needs some love. It is from the 60s, but still one of the best appliances ever. Wish they made things to last like they used to.
Wow that's cool
watching the egg whisking with the sticks makes me wonder - who was the mad genius who first spent an hour whisking egg whites with a bundle of twigs to discover the magic of stiff peaks? can’t imagine someone going through all that seemingly futile effort without knowing what the end result would be or how it could then be used.
edit: oooh congrats dave on the award and the sequel! keeping my eyes peeled for the release.
Agreed, they had to separate the eggs then spend 6 minutes whisking them, then figure out what to do with them.
I find most of cooking is like that. Like who thought this was a good idea? Lol.
once I had a friend ask me a similar question "who do you think was the first guy to try cows milk, did they try other animals too?"
I love to think that our ancestors ages back were all this try and see kind of folks.
I can't help but think it started has busy work to keep your kids out of your hair for a while. Like when a dad asks his kids to organize the miss match nails bucket and straighten the crooked one...
@@gergokerekes4550 I'm guessing animal milks were tested to feed infants when mothers couldn't. We know nowadays that it isn't a great idea and we have better alternatives, but if you disregard the knowledge we have nowadays, it's really not a wild idea.
People have been milking all sorts of farm animals for the longest times, they used whichever mammals were available locally and big enough for it to be worth it, sheep, goats, donkeys, yaks, horses... Cows produce a lot of extra milk compared to horses and donkeys, so the former is affordable, used in many by-products, whereas the latter are more luxurious (a woman who sells horse milk says that you can milk somewhere between 1 and 2L per day, compared to about 4L per day for a beef cow and up to 28L per day for a modern dairy cow), used primarily in cosmetics and the like.
I'm guessing groups of people discovered it independently in many places in the world, and therefore on many different animals, but I don't think there's a way to be sure.
This brought back a memory! I was born in 1962 and my parents had a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Everything ran off generators. After 7pm it candles and lanterns only. We had a large walk-in fridge freezer and that was the only thing that still ran on the generator at night. There were no fancy modcons. Toast was made over a fire in the wood stove (still the best way to make toast) and everything was cooked in that or over a camp fire/BBQ. I'm sure it was horrendous for Mum but she did have 2 helpers, and a cook for the many Jackaroos' food. I remember the last thing you showed - the hand-cranked "sunbeam" mixer. I always asked to whip the eggs as I thought it was fascinating and I don't remember it being hard. Thanks for the memory! ❤❤
Glad to find out I am ancient, j/k. When I was a kid in the 70's, we had one of those apple peelers. Was a lifesaver when peeling several hundred apples for canning. We would leave the little bits of peel on the apples for a bit of texture. Then take the peelings and feed them to the pigs.
I have the newer peeler, corer, slicer machine which is a lifesaver.
We had one in the 00s, too! Tho ours would also core and slice them. And we ate the peelings ourselves. Lol
@@mollyrhodes9318 If we were just eating an apple, we ate peel and all but when we were canning, that was a ton of peels to try and just munch on.
I usually would drop the peels - any I hadn’t eaten! 🤣 - into a bit of water and boil them to extract the apple juice, which I would then put back into my apple sauce or apple butter. I do love my apple corer-peeler-slicer! It’s really the only way to go if you are doing whole boxes of apples. I won’t get it out if I’m only doing one apple pie, though. Then the cleaning is more trouble than it’s worth for the 5-8 apples.
When I was in elementary school in the early 2000s my teacher brought in a similar one to let us use to make applesauce
Ann: I need a sort of special tool...
Dave: Time machine 🤣
Congratulations to Dave for his new book, and thank you both for being such a wonderful couple!
"Vanitas Vanitatum, so many of these are humbug."
So, basically, this tells me that crappy useless kitchen gadgets have always been a thing.
all things have always been a thing.
~ Someone, surely
@@goosiechild”What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
- Ecclesiastes 1:9, written no more recently than 180 BC
@@ckdraws410
I bet he would've changed his mind pretty quickly if he learned about aircraft, telephones, smartphones, the Internet, movies, videogames....
@@ckdraws410 This has all happened before and it will all happen again - Battlestar Galactica
Also the idea of gifting [influencers] things to review and tell other people about 😂
The timeline showcase with the miniatures was so very charming!
thank you :)
It really was so cute! Such a delightful little detail! 🤩
Only Ann could draw us in to watch egg whites be whipped with sticks lol. Love from NS Canada.
IM ALSO FROM NS CANADA! I HAVE I CANADA FRIEND
Townsends whisk egg whites with sticks all the time.
@@lilyswiftiepenguin13 I am in the Valley! *Middleton
So true 😂. Hi from Florida!
Hahaha! So true! 😂
Im absolutely floored by the physical timeline you constructed 🤩 What a lovely editing choice. And the level of artistry! Those tiny stand mixers are so well made i wonder how sculpting the beaters was even possible
Fun fact, old whisks being small bundles of twigs is the reason cats whiskers are called whiskers
whoa! i'd have thought animal body parts would be named first
Extra fun fact
I have successfully whipped cream with birch twigs, a LOT more of them is needed, and slightly thinner and bendier.
I still have my grandmother's hand rotary whisk ❤
That is a pretty good fact!! Thanks for sharing!
It isn't a "fun fact" it's a dozy lie.
5:17 "This is whisky business" - Dave. 😂
Not only cooking and debunking, now Ann is a machinery restoration channel as well.
that'd have made a great restoration video too! i really dig these!
HOW IS SHE SO COOL
Totally. This woman is like an octopus when it comes to skills. (Or maybe I can say she has as many skills as a centipede has legs). Hm. Animal analogy still lacking. Anyone have a better one? 😅
... animal reference?...
Um... A horse of many colors? No... that sounds kind of insulting... um..
Oh... a Jackelope of all trades!
(🤷🏼♀️🤣)
@@Zardox2 🤣🤣 good try 🤣🤣
I have a 1930’s patent sunbeam mixmaster, I don’t think it was made in the 30’s though,it was given to my nana as a wedding gift in 1956 from her mothe, it could have very well been second hand and the same one her mother had used while she was growing up as her parents were very poor all her life due to her father liking the drink much too much. My nana used it all the time up until about a year before she died (she passed Boxing Day 2010) when she was finally too sick, she taught me to bake with it and when I was 18 (2014) and got really into baking my grandy gifted my nana’s mix master for Christmas that year. It still works to this day, I don’t use it all the time because of its age and sentimental value to me, but I do use it for special occasions. After it was gifted to me I made all of my grandy’s birthday cakes in it using my nana’s special cake recipe up until he passed in 2017. Now I use it to make my son’s birthday cake every year, just to keep it running and make sure it’s still working. It came with 2 different size mixing Bowles, as well as an electric orange juicer attachment, all are still in very good working condition. The dial even has what each level what should be used for written on it, there is even a dial level for beating egg whites, level 8 of 11 I think from memory. It is one of my most prized possessions and I hope to start teaching my son to back with it for his 3rd birthday cake this year in July and hopefully one day even pass it on to him.
That sounds great! Someone up in the comments (melinda adams 6520 or something) wrote that there is a Mixmaster collector who repaired her mixer. He might not live anywhere near you but give it a thought to show him your device once so that it can truly stay a heirloom. ❤
Maybe soaking longer birch sticks in water, they'll become pliable and could be bent into "horseshoe" shapes with the ends meeting together. Then arrange and tie them together to resemble and act like a more modern whisk.
Historically they also used much thinner twigs and many more in the bundle
And you would split the ends maybe inch from the end, to get more surface area.
Also, Dave's technique really sucked: you can tell who's the kitchen wizard in that house just from watching them beat that egg.
Yeah, this wasn't a really fair comparison. But so interesting
Ann is usually pretty good at background research, though, so maybe there is something (a description, a painting, etc) to support the size and number of sticks she used.
@@wobblysauce, yes, I saw a video recently showing how traditional matcha tea whisks are made from bamboo & it was amazing how it has so many strands from just splitting a single piece repeatedly.
Years ago, my mom made a willow whisk at our lapland cabin when she couldn't find the metal one. She used many(15 or so) smaller sticks bound together to make it easier for me to use (us kids were the designated beaters in the kitchen)
dave and ann are literally couple goals! we love supportive partners
not only the couple, but their kids are also cool and smart. Family goals definetly!
@@Zal1810 so true!!
i LOVE Dave's Twenty One Pilots hoodie 😍 been streaming Clancy nonstop since it was released 🎵🎵🎵
Dave & the boys are loving it too
I missed clever or never so much, I'm so happy for this
1:43 "..... we need a special kind of tool....."
".....yeah a time machine...." 😂😂
My Grandmother was born in 1927 and had a hand cranked whisk - she passed away last October and I inherited it! I love it!
They look really satisfying to use, you get the feeling of accomplishment without your arm aching all day. I've whipped cream and egg whites with a whisk and it's honestly miserable
The small touches that go into these videos truly make them amazing, the music of the time periods is just like the icing on the cake!
1:37
Haha Dave killed it with the instant "time machine"
Came here to say the same thing!
My mother had a handheld rotary egg beater when I was little, that I loved to play with. There was just something so fascinating about watching the beaters spin! Lol
We had one at our rental summer house and I loved whisking cream or egg white with it. Also liked the sound.
Townsends have used stick whisks quite successfully and I believe they sell them on their website as well. The ones they use definitely have more sticks, and a bit thinner too.
That would be a wild collaboration.
@@glamazon6172, there needs to be an appeal for the Ann Reardon & Jon Townsends collab to happen! ❤
I love my rotary beater. It's my favorite tool in the kitchen. I use it to mix cake batter, pancake batter, scrambled eggs, whisking egg whites, etc. I love it.
Dave's Twenty One Pilots hoodie... Let's go, Dave, great taste!
Yeah, awesome hoodie! Been having Clany earworms for a week now
Was thinking the same thing!
Yes!!!
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I love the way Dave and Anne build each other up. So lovely to see a couple who seems to both love each other and like each other. Great energy!
All those gadgets are awesome and the best part is none of them requieres electricity to work.
Also, congrats to Dave for being a succesful writer 👏👏👏.
When Dave said "You might have wrecked it" I burst out laughing :)
There's a old time American cooking channel, Townsend's I think, and he's always making those wood whisks and using them. His have a lot more sticks and the sticks are smaller too
Great channel!
So glad others watch his channel.
As somebody who sells vintage and antiques for a living, I LOVE this. It’s so fun to see things left dormant for decades used again!
Congratulations, Dave!
Love the Clever or Never series! I felt your pain with the whisks, remembering when I made whipped cream with a fork when studying abroad (took an hour). Didn't have my gadgets and I MISSED them!
I'd love that little Aussie mixer NOW!
It's always nice to watch your videos after a long tiring day🥹 I like this series, it makes me more interested on tools more, especially the ancient/ older ones.❤
How did u comment 18 hrs ago? Is RUclips having a stroke?
Videos can be released early for Channel Members or Patreon subscribers.
@@StellarPBJelly CricketsBay is correct. Videos are released about 24 hour early via Patreon. 😊
Ann I’m a 20 yo who has recently moved out of home and am working and in uni. Life is good but stressful sometimes but ur videos make my day every time, you make this life a little less stressful 🔥🔥🔥💗💗
I'm giving this entire video a Clever! 👍 Seriously, the amount of thought that goes into these videos is great. It's not just the research or format. It's the little details. You didn't have to make a physical miniature scene to display the time line of inventions. You could have just shown pictures or talked about it, but the miniatures are much more interesting to look at. I appreciate the your attention to detail and the effort behind it.
I love how many talents you have and show. You cleaned and fixed that apple gadget yourself,i find that pretty impressive
Hand whisking 😮💨
I am truly a fool. The other day, I needed to whisk the whites of a single egg, and in my genius, I figured it would be quicker (and quieter) to not bother with the stand mixer.
I quickly regretted it.
Anyway,
Congrats to Dave for the award for the Deep Enders!!
And as always I'm always amazed by Anns industriousness, restoring the peeler so nicely. It probably needs a new rivet or something.
In my 20's, long ago, I decided to make my first lemon pie. I only had a hand mixer. And for some reason, I put foil in a steamer bowl and whisked like mad. As you can imagine, failed totally. Didn't try again for 30 years, but the next time I had an electric mixer and used a glass bowl. Magic! 😂
The secret for hand mixing egg whites is to go at it with slower and wider movements at first and go progressively faster and firmer. This technique alone replaced electric mixers completely for me
Honestly back in the 90s we had two different kind of more modern apple peelers with a similar idea but the old one Ann restored would have beaten both of them especially the newer one.
My father has a kitchen scale from the 50s at home and still uses it today, because the electrical ones always keep breaking at some point and the trusty iron monster keeps on working and working. 70+ years and still going strong. It has build in weights for measurements.
I've learned to bake my first cakes with that scale when I was a child. Pretty cool, when I think about it.
My parents still have one of those apple peeling devices. Theirs doesn't push it off afterwards, but it does core it for you. Very useful when you have apple trees!
Dad also has a birch twig whisk, but he uses it for mixing sauces in non-stick pans so they don't get scratched.
I am 65 and live in Canada. When I was younger we used both the apple peeler and the crank-type beater. We got an electric beater but still used the hand crank for eggs and blending more liquid type things.
Having made two spongecakes today, this video has made me very grateful for my stand mixer
I love this format, so many great inventions that deserve a revival! 💡
I grew up in the 1960s and we always had a hand rotary mixer in 1973 we got an electric hand mixer. But still kept the rotary one. I made all our cakes with the rotary mixer as well as whipped cream.❤
Ann you are a beast with the whisk! I’m so happy to have a mixer to make whipped cream. Congratulations Dave on your award!
Dave is alway a treat. It's nice to see you interact with each other. I can tell you both love each other a lot.
I hope there will be more antique gadgets!
Honestly, my favorite part of this video is watching Dave and Ann interact with each other. They obviously love each other a lot. Great work Ann, I love your videos!
That's my favourite comment so far. You picked it! 💑
It feels like forever since the last HTCT. Kudos to Dave and his new book!
11:54. My mother received a sunbeam mix master with all the attachments for her wedding in 1941. It was still working (minus the bowls broken by myself and my brother, they were replaced) until mother passed in 2010.
Amazing way to end my Friday 😊
Thanks for the video, Ann and Dave!
Great way to start mine :D greetings from across the globe hehe
In my "recently out of school" years, all I had was a rotary beater, and decided to make a recipe that required egg whites stiff peaks while my parents were visiting. It took a lot of work churning that handle around, but finally stiff peaks were achieved. Then, during the next Christmas, my mom gave me an hand electric mixer, telling me that while it was impressively done with the rotary beater, I really needed this. I still have that little workhorse of a mixer.
Ahh immediately clicked on the video, your videos are the favourite part of my week, Ann! Thank you for making everyone's Friday better
thanks citritx
I was born in the seventies and my grand-mother was using one of those whisks. It was quite satisfying to use. She also had a manual bread slicer that I am still using sometimes.
Can you do more 200 year old recipes? They are some of my favourite videos of yours.
“Time Machine” was underrated comedy
"You might have wrecked it."
Nice move Dave; well done sir.
I remember using a beater that had the handle for one hand and a crank for the other hand! It was so familiar when you brought it out!
Loving Dave's Twenty-One Pilots hoodie and the Noah Kahan reference with that sneaky "season of the sticks" 😂 Congrats on finishing the second book! And thanks for another fascinating video, Ann ❤
Congrats Dave on finishing another book! We're all so proud of you.
I love the Clever or Never series, and the antique gadgets were so fun! I hope to see more in the future, I think it was more interesting than some of the dropshipped items going around tiktok.
I love these clever or never videos. Was fascinating learning about the evolution of whiskers and testing these gadgets was pretty cool to see. Also a huge congrats on Dave for his award!! I am very happy for him and I wish him success on his second book!!
Ohh that manual stand mixer at the end was too cool!
I saved my uncle's rusty tools with baking in oil too, but since I have no electrolosis tools, I had to soak them in vinegar & kosher salt for hours & scrub them down with copper scrubbies. Worked for some old cast iron pans too.
I have a fascination with old mixers! I have my grandmother’s Sunbeam Mixmaster, her Hamilton Beach from the 60’s, and her avocado green Sunbeam hand mixer from the 70’s!
It's always nice to watch your videos after a long tiring day🥹 I like this series, it makes me more interested on tools more, especially the ancient/ older ones.❤
We had a manual beater like that antique one when I was a kid in the 80s, I'm sure it was an antique my parents had gotten from one of their parents. I used to love using it, the fact that it works so well for being just cranked always amazed me.
man the grip strength of old school bakers must have been insane.
"Whisk for one hour..."
Of course until the repetitive stress injuries began to compound.
Makes me realise why my nan- who was one hell of a baker- was built as stocky as they come. That woman was hand whisking for hours every day. Must've had muscles on muscles.
I wonder if something like a bow drill would help.
I worked in a kitchen once where everything had to be done from scratch and often by hand. My arms were very strong because I was working hard for hours every day, kneading, chopping, stirring and carrying. You don't realise how much work is involved in food preparation until all our gadgets, ready-made ingredients and packet mixes are taken away.
I still own and use that Sunbeam MixMaster from the 50s! It was my grandmother's and she used it her whole life and when I purchased her house on her passing it was still in her kitchen. So there it stayed! Going strong!
4:11 Brahm's Hungarian dance 1 or 5 would have fitted great as the background music
Another friday, another H2CT video to binge-watch! ❤
Thanks!
Huge congratulations Dave!
@7:34 I used that variant, double gear - made in plastic, (was fantastic) in 1977. That whisker was made in some mid-50s. Still worked onto mid-80s.
We used to have a cranked hand whisker that I really thought was clever. I'm lazy in weird ways and thought that getting out the electric whisk and setting it up was more of a bother than the cranked whisk 🤣
Working for a patent attorney, I really appreciate seeing all these old patent documents!
Congratulations, Dave! That's fantastic news! 🎉
9:35 grew up with one at our cabin
I absolutely love it
In stead in a fork or a regular whisk and having to pull out a electric beater or mixer
Id use it in modern times
Congrats Dave!!
My family went digging in basements to find an old egg whisk for me years ago. My children have extreme noise sensitives and the electric mixer was both scary and overwhelming for them. They've been helping me in kitchen ever since we got that hand beater. I think the Austrian one would be brilliant even today for autistic families
So nice to see Dave's wearing twenty one pilots merch!!! So cool!
14:30 Pedestal & desk fans that were powered by mains pressure water by screwing them onto a kitchen tap used to be common. Hydraulic machinery in factories used to use water too, the larger cities(London & Sydney have them) use to have a centralised hydraulic plant that powered all the factories in the area.
Dave’s hoodie 🙂
Congrats on the book mate. Fantastic.
he does love TOP!
The last gadget is my favorite. ❤
I remember using something like like that rotary mixer when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I guess mum didn't trust me with the electric one, lol.
And congrats, Dave!
Me too - we didn't have an electric mixer at home, so it was either that or go completely manual!
Me too, in the 60's.
My mom still has hers! I always wanted to use it. I never mastered it. My mom uses a Kitchenaid 😂
@@TheGooglyminotaur Its certainly easier than a normal whisk but if you aren't careful it can make the bowl walk its way off the edge of the table!
@@hfsaid yep, the rotary egg whisk didn't change much from the 1870's to the 1970's Wasn't much slower than my Mum's sunbeam for whisking eggs.
Awe! The little wallpaper and figures for the mixers is adorable and such a nice thoughtful touch
Always a great Friday when you post
Indeed!
thanks greatworksofsatire
I was amazed by your first bit, the electrolysis to remove rust, and the machine itself, amazing.
If you ever want to sell it, please, I'll buy it !!
Oh I'm so excited this going to be awesome.😊🎉 go Dave your amazing 👏
I really enjoy your videos especially the ones with your family involved. It’s like being around your kitchen bench discussing the history of cooking ❤
Glad you like them!
i have been binge watching your old video, only recently came across your channel but enjoy it greatly me and my husband do, and i like this series i am due to go buy some kitchen things so this might help
it might help if you want antiques 😀
@@HowToCookThat i love my ye olde stuff, charity shops on Glasgow are just wonderful xx thanks for getting in touch and tell your hubby good luck with the book x
9:51 We have one of these that we use almost exclusively for eggs. It's much faster than using a hand whisk and easier than dragging the electric beater out and plugging it in and everything.
I inherited via my aunt via my grandmother via my great grandmother and possibly my great great grandmother before her - an iron nutmeg grater which has stamped on it 'Patented June 7, 1870". I still use it to grind nutmeg today.
My grandfather was an inventor, they still have some of his patented aerospace manufacturing techniques in use. He and his friends/co-workers created many useful products (including the Waltco liftgate).
One of those friends invented a can crusher. It mounted on the wall, had a metal part that pushed down on the top of the can when you pulled the lever. My grandfather had the first working prototype in his garage and we'd earn a quarter for every bag of cans that we'd crush for him.
It was ok, but the new versions of it that you can find on the market, are refined and have guides keep that metal crusher part in place. The one we used was wild, it might spit the can out at you at a high rate of speed (aluminum cans were much thicker then, too).
These gadgets and the blueprints reminded me of that and many other fun things that came and went through my grandpa's garage. ❤
I love seeing you guys terst gadgets!
I only just got this when I saw the above comment 😂
I remember those old rotary beaters. My family had one and I think I had one when I was a young mother, at least until I acquired an electric beater. Nowadays, I just whisk with a wire whisk. Much easier than getting out and setting up the electric beater.
8:45 If someone did this to me, I can tell you it wouldnt be eggs getting beat
Really liked seeing these used and the history behind them. My mom's Christmas cookie dough batter - was an old European recipe and took 4-1/2 cups of flour to 1 cup of soft butter and an egg. No other liquid, plus one cup of ground nuts and one cup of sugar. Our mixer couldn't handle the dough so hand-stirring was done and boy was it tough. But they were delicious cookies put into a press. Thank you Ann and Dave.
You seem to be the type of mom I hope to be lol
There's gentle parenting that leads to iPad tyrant kids, then there's your gentle parenting where kids are happy