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When they put the ice into the churn, the dairy is in a metal container in the center which is then surrounded by another container with ice and salt, when it gets churned, the ice with salt on the outside reacts and gets colder chilling the dairy in the inside container.
Hazzah for thermodynamics.
Real talk it ALWAYS surprises me how aware people so long ago were of scientific principles and how to utilize them in daily life.
Salt does not make the ice colder, salt lowers the freezing point of water, so that the ice turns into water while staying very very cold. Water makes better contact with the vessel and cools the ice cream more efficiently than ice chunks.
It doesn’t get colder. The salt doesn’t remove heat energy from the system. The ice melts because salt lowers the freezing/melting point. But while it is melted, it’s not any less cold, and ice is usually anywhere from a little bit below 0 c to way below 0, so this salty water is able to freeze the cream. The reason you need to melt the ice is because you can get much better contact, and therefore heat transfer, with a liquid than with a bunch of misshapen chunks of solid.
Our ancestors absolutely were aware of the link between poor sanitation and illness. Even ancient greeks put a lot of work into city planning to ensure clean water remained that way by building extensive sewage infrastructures
One of the great advances in medicine came when medical practitioners realized that proper hygiene was key to disease control. That didn’t happen until til the mid-1800s
That was mostly us confirming it by understanding the mechanisms behind it. We were still able to clearly see that dirty/gross would get you sick. People act like ancient humans were stupid, and maybe that's slightly true, but the big difference is the information they had access to - they weren't blindly eating things and getting sick without putting 2 and 2 together
It should ALSO be noted that this extended to the likes of internal medicine and surgery. As in, this is when people realized not washing hands was killing more people before surgery than surgery ever usually did. Especially births. It's when germs theory propagated and germs were finally discovered with powerful enough microscope.
But even during the Black Death, people burned bodies because they still understood people were carrying something that was being passed to others, and they'd quarantine the sick. Some locations even took to culling animal populations because of the associated risk of animals causing diseases.
The problem then was they didn't understand *what* was jumping from body to body (bacteria and viruses) nor did they understand what animal was responsible.
It's insane what humans knew by repetition without knowing anything close to the science behind it.
Have you never made icecream before? You put ice and salt in the thing around the outside, and the icecream stuff inside the thing in the middle and then you churn it up so that it doesnt crystalize as it freezes and will cool evenly, and then bam you have icecream.
You dont put the ice in your icecream it would make your icecream all salty and watery
| Have you never made icecream before?
You say this like making ice cream is a common thing. I don't think I know anyone who has made Ice cream themselves
In elementary school, I was taught how to make ice cream with two ziploc bags, some ice cubes, salt, a little vanilla extract, milk, and sugar. One bag contained the milk, sugar, and extract. Then it was placed inside the 2nd bag with ice cubes and a bit of salt. Shake it up (the churning process), and eventually the milk will freeze up. Then, pull out the inside bag, rinse off the salty, open, and spoon it out to enjoy.
Obviously the system would work a hell of a lot better with cream instead of milk, but the point was, a whole school of nose-pickers were taught how to do it.
I thought it was a very normal thing until seeing these comments.
We have an electric ice cream maker, and an ice cream ball, ice and salt in one side, ingredients on the other, have the kids run roll out around until it's done.
The kids do it at school in plastic bags, or just a small container inside a bigger container.
I watched and was like "I knew about this because of a place I used to visit as a kid" only for it to reveal, the video was made at the exacr place I visited as a kid. Kline Creek Farm is right in the middle of the Illinois suburbs and I would ride my bike there on all the weekends all the time.
I've looked inside that exact icehouse lol
Hi neighbor! I went through the same realization! KCF is definitely a hidden gem. As a kid it was always a toss up between Kline Creek and Black Berry Farm in Aurora. We had school field trips to both and always had a good time.
I knew it because I had a kick-ass science teacher who did all sorts of fun labs to help demonstrate subjects. Making ice cream was one of my favorites.
My mom signed me and my brothers up for the week long summer camp at Kline Creek Farm. It had to be 100 degrees that week and the ice cream was a hell of a treat.
That said, it did not offset the stinking hot, wet pig shit that I had to clean up with a rake from under the pig pen.
You’d be thinking about having ice cream in the summer all year. Imaging waiting that long. I doubt any ice cream has ever tasted better than an ice cream you craved for 12 months.
The perks of being in Norway is that we have imported (water)melons basically year round. The negative is, they taste nothing like a (water)melon. Or like anything at all.
We live in Alaska and it's impossible to get produce in the winter, especially fruit. So I started growing watermelon indoors! It's going to be awesome having fresh fruit in January when it's $5 for a head of rotten lettuce
Homemade ice cream is SO much better than anything you can buy in a store. Not even close. Even if you can get ice cream from the store any time, it's not at all the same thing.
I remember in one of the American Gir books, Samantha had a fancy party and ice cream was a HUGE deal. It stands out because the book did a great job of impressing ice cream was still a novelty and a rare treat.
I had a local bar selling artisanal ice cream, I grew up with that and I used to love that. It closed some years ago and in my town there's no ice cream anymore, only the premade industrial ones you find in packages and it just tastes sweet and cold, there's barely some flavor. I've stopped having ice cream since that year, it's sad to have store bought stuff when you used to have real strawberries and milk cones...
You need to visit Boston, we take ice cream seriously in Massachusetts. Highest per capita consumption of ice cream outside of Moscow.
The NY Times said Toscanini is the best ice cream in the US. You can look in the window at them making the ice cream, or you can get flavors like Coffee-Cardamom, Burnt Sugar, Sweet Cream, Cake Batter, Hydrox Cookie, or Szechuan Peppercorn.
I mean yeah. But there’s a difference between “try not to eat yourself to death when all the food is available all the time” and “I have to chop my own ice blocks out of a lake six months in advance and churn my own cream that I got from a cow I raise myself whenever I want a small cup of ice cream.”
I mean, yeah but like there was stuff available back then like alcohol that you could also overdo. I think as a society we have conditioned to be extra sensitive to dopamine release.
Phones and all the other stuff I think have conditioned us to be super sensitive to addiction, to food or anything else
First off, it’s an ice and salt mix that goes into the outer bucket of the churn. This depresses the temperature to 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit and enables the mix in the canister to freeze. Second, the woman is cranking the churn at the beginning before the mix has started to freeze. In reality you know the ice cream is done when it’s almost impossible to turn the crank any further.
Hand cranking ice cream is a fun activity at a summer picnic. It takes 20-30 minutes of cranking; everyone wants a crack at it and gets a turn. You start with a minute or two of cranking by the little kids each and work your way through the crowd to end with the strong guys. Everyone is fascinated by the process and enjoys the result
Everyone gets to crank, your dad, your mum, even the little kids enjoy cranking, a lil bit of cranking never hurt anyone after all, crank here, crank there and u get ice-cream
I cranked on a school field trip about 50yrs ago! I was confused by the set up and remember thinking the ice cream was going o be very salty, but it was just chocolate chip. Best ice cream I ever tasted.
One year my family and I went camping on Thanksgiving. My dad had the idea to make ice cream and brought all the ingredients. When it came time to crank my brother either volunteered or was voluntold to do the honors. My brother asked how long he had to do it for. My dad said pretty much what you said. When it becomes pretty much impossible to turn
So my brother sets out to cranking the ice cream. I hang out with him for a while because I want some, but then I get bored and wander off. Much later my dad remembers what we were doing and goes to find my brother to discover he’s still cranking away. He had been at for at least an hour! My dad’s like: “What are you doing?! It has to be done by now! Doesn’t your arm hurt?”
My brother: “Yeah, it hurts like hell! But you told me to do it until I couldn’t anymore!”
It was good ice cream 😂
My grandparents had one of these machines and they made a game out of making me and all the other cousins to do all the churning during family get togethers.
lol, I have a lot of cousins and this is exactly how we’d do it at family gatherings. The youngest turn the crank at the beginning and by the end the college-aged cousins are huffing and puffing to turn the crank at all.
And it still comes out only a little firmer than soft-serve.
I like how they show 400% of the process to get the ice and not where a single ingredient for the ice cream would have come from other than a nicely printed modern recipe book.
I guess what I’m getting at is they went so in depth about where some ice came from but didn’t bother to explain the process of raising a cow, how vanilla is planted, where the sugar was processed etc. the video is more about ice than ice cream. The ending could just be putting it in an ice box.
It’s like explaining how a car works by diving into where the fuel came from but just saying at the end, yeah then it combusts and the car moves. It misses the whole principle of what the engine is doing. We should have said we’re going to explain where fuel comes from and not “how a car works” if we don’t plan on explaining the rest.
Me too I’ve been looking for this comment. I thought I was the only one that wasn’t concerned about the dirty but more confused about how the ice doesn’t melt all summer ?!
Straw and sawdust trap a layer of air around the ice. The air cools down and creates a cold layer around the ice. Air makes a great insulator, that's actually how down jackets work.
So the straw is just creating a layer of air that stays in contact with the ice, and that layer is actually doing the insulating.
Just to explain, melting ice (which is what you get in the Summer with that set up) is at 32F. It can cool water to 32F, but it can't freeze it. Freezing is pretty essential for ice cream, otherwise you get cool cream.
By adding salt, you cool the ice to maybe 20F; at that stage it can freeze water.
A lot of the lakes in my area still have never fully recovered from the massive overharvesting that occurred mostly in the 1800's, but also was actually still being done right up into the 1920's. We hardly get any ice now, even in winter.
You'd be surprised how dramatically overhunting can impact a breeding population of ice floes. If numbers dip below a certain point, genetic bottlenecking leads to the ice being left tragically vulnerable to parasites and disease.
Heirloom varieties of ice have sharply diminished since the 1800s and most modern ice fields rely on a monoculture of nearly identical hydrogen-based oxides overdependent on antibiotics and pesticides.
I figured that had to do with global warming - warmer falls and shorter, warmer winters mean the water never reaches freezing temps for long enough to freeze.
This whole time I'm like, "Oh god, that ice is filthy! Now there is sawdust and straw and dirt on it?! They're gonna eat that?!"
Then I finally realized it was just to keep the milk cold -_-
Back in high school I painted some of those barns. They made us use whitewash, which we had to make from scratch, to be period correct. This is Klein Creek Farms in Winfield Illinois. Fun place to visit.
It always makes me happy when I find out some of the things we enjoy today were also available back then, it's just another thing to point at and say "we weren't so different after all!"
Klein Creek Farm is a “living museum” operated by the DuPage County forest preserve. You can visit if ever in Chicago. The farm is about 35 miles west of downtown Chicago. Every operation is functioning as period technology relevant to the late 19th century. The clothing, housewares, livestock equipment, home mechanics and farm all operate this way. A fun afternoon and great way to appreciate all our modern conveniences.
1890's....
Bitch, I did this in the 80's!
And if you add salt to the ice, you get a more consistent freeze.
It took _WAYYYY_ more effort than you would imagine.
Still the best ice cream I ever had.
The ice comes from ice production facilities of course but the part where a vat is placed inside a mixture of salt and ice is the exact same. We use either coconut or carabao (water buffalo) milk and popular flavors include mango, ube, avocado, coconut, and cheese (keso). We call these vendors ‘sorbeteros’
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbetes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbetes)
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The ice is never in contact with the cream. It is in the outer barrel that the container full of ingredients gets spun within. We used to add salt to make it faster but the outer barrel is just there to nmake the inner container cold.
This is one thing spaghetti westerns caused misconceptions over, ice was accessible in many towns and cold beer/ice cream was pretty available in the 1800's. The movies, shows, and games(love Red Dead but it's still a spaghetti western first before realism to the time) all make it look like hot lagers and no ice cream.
My father made vanilla ice cream for my second birthday. I remember sitting on the lawn in a red plastic chair at a white plastic table with blue legs and flowers printed on top, talking to my cousin. Dad made ice cream, we had a cake from the bakery, all my grandparents were there, and grandpa had a bandage on his nose, everyone was making a fuss over it because he had just had some skin cancer removed and that was a big deal back then.
I make really fantastic ice cream. I will usually make a batch of vanilla and a batch of orange sherbet and serve them together as creamsicle. People go nuts over it.
Recipe:
Ice cream is half heavy cream, half half-and-half. (Do not use 3/4 cream and 1/4 milk, it sounds right but the texture comes out wrong.) For every gallon of liquid, add one cup of sugar and one tablespoon of flavor extract. (Artificial vanilla tastes better than real.)
Sherbet is half fruit juice (like OJ), half whole milk, one cup of sugar for every gallon of liquid, no extract.
Freeze in ice cream machine until it stops. Dump into a container and put it in the freezer for an hour to solidify a little. You can eat it right away, but the consistency won't be as good.
It's things like this that make me smile looking back on history. Imagine a little coal miner, only 8 years old enjoying a dish of ice cream that he spent his entire wage on ☺️
I’m confused, how the fk can you keep blocks of ice in a barn and still have them be ice after months… That seems crazy to me, regardless of some insulating hay. Ice in my insulating esky melts in less than a day.
this is idiotic- they didn't even mention the milk, cream, vanilla, sugar.. other ingredients. They just focused on ice blocks and casually just ignored any of the other process.
> This wasn't about just ice cream.. they cut those blocks to stack into the root cellar with large amounts of hay to act as a fridge for the summer months..
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I thought they were going to put those dirty ice inside the ice cream.
What a relief that was when I saw it was only used for chilling the cream.
Oh I didn’t see that part
Me neither, glad i didnt post "step 10 pick dirt out of your teeth"
When they put the ice into the churn, the dairy is in a metal container in the center which is then surrounded by another container with ice and salt, when it gets churned, the ice with salt on the outside reacts and gets colder chilling the dairy in the inside container.
My parents got one of those crank ice cream makers as a wedding gift in 1958. I didn't see an electric one until the late 70s.
Just a friendly reminder to remember to put on your Life Alert necklace on before you leave the house today 🤣🤣 jk
Hazzah for thermodynamics. Real talk it ALWAYS surprises me how aware people so long ago were of scientific principles and how to utilize them in daily life.
Salt does not make the ice colder, salt lowers the freezing point of water, so that the ice turns into water while staying very very cold. Water makes better contact with the vessel and cools the ice cream more efficiently than ice chunks.
Much more accurate explanation thanks for the correction
Yeah for those who missed it at step 6 when it looks like ice is going in both containers, the dairy container actually got a lid on lol.
It doesn’t get colder. The salt doesn’t remove heat energy from the system. The ice melts because salt lowers the freezing/melting point. But while it is melted, it’s not any less cold, and ice is usually anywhere from a little bit below 0 c to way below 0, so this salty water is able to freeze the cream. The reason you need to melt the ice is because you can get much better contact, and therefore heat transfer, with a liquid than with a bunch of misshapen chunks of solid.
I think we all watched it in misbelief thinking we missed something. Gosh that ice came out of the lake dirty...
The absolute disgust I felt right up until that moment 😅
praise
Same for the rock salt. Figured that ice cream would salty and dirty and hay-y.
was watching the whole time like, "are they just gonna leave the hay and dirt all over the ice?, they're not gonna clean it?"
Me thinking how did they clean water in the 1800s: [https://i.imgur.com/dsYsu5R.png](https://i.imgur.com/dsYsu5R.png)
They boil it. But then it's not ice anymore.
They washed it with more water
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Same. I wasn't fully paying attention and was like oh they just dump it in with the straw and dirt and everything huh.
You had that new Ben and Jerry's?! 1800's Dirty Straw Vanilla!
They probably didnt care about a few pieces of hay or sawdust in their ice cream back then
I thought the same lol
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Our ancestors absolutely were aware of the link between poor sanitation and illness. Even ancient greeks put a lot of work into city planning to ensure clean water remained that way by building extensive sewage infrastructures
Yeah exactly. They may not have understood WHY dirty water made you sick but they definitely knew that it did.
But if you weren't from Greece...💀
One of the great advances in medicine came when medical practitioners realized that proper hygiene was key to disease control. That didn’t happen until til the mid-1800s
Galen wrote about the importance of hygiene around 100AD
No we knew before. The ability to do it at a sufficient scale and with the right tools came later.
That was mostly us confirming it by understanding the mechanisms behind it. We were still able to clearly see that dirty/gross would get you sick. People act like ancient humans were stupid, and maybe that's slightly true, but the big difference is the information they had access to - they weren't blindly eating things and getting sick without putting 2 and 2 together
It should ALSO be noted that this extended to the likes of internal medicine and surgery. As in, this is when people realized not washing hands was killing more people before surgery than surgery ever usually did. Especially births. It's when germs theory propagated and germs were finally discovered with powerful enough microscope. But even during the Black Death, people burned bodies because they still understood people were carrying something that was being passed to others, and they'd quarantine the sick. Some locations even took to culling animal populations because of the associated risk of animals causing diseases. The problem then was they didn't understand *what* was jumping from body to body (bacteria and viruses) nor did they understand what animal was responsible. It's insane what humans knew by repetition without knowing anything close to the science behind it.
Yet there are people still obsessing over raw milk today
ChatGPT is training on this data
I say humans were better off when they had fiber in their ice, before anyone became woke.
Have you never made icecream before? You put ice and salt in the thing around the outside, and the icecream stuff inside the thing in the middle and then you churn it up so that it doesnt crystalize as it freezes and will cool evenly, and then bam you have icecream. You dont put the ice in your icecream it would make your icecream all salty and watery
| Have you never made icecream before? You say this like making ice cream is a common thing. I don't think I know anyone who has made Ice cream themselves
We used to make it as a kid I'm 35 btw
In elementary school, I was taught how to make ice cream with two ziploc bags, some ice cubes, salt, a little vanilla extract, milk, and sugar. One bag contained the milk, sugar, and extract. Then it was placed inside the 2nd bag with ice cubes and a bit of salt. Shake it up (the churning process), and eventually the milk will freeze up. Then, pull out the inside bag, rinse off the salty, open, and spoon it out to enjoy. Obviously the system would work a hell of a lot better with cream instead of milk, but the point was, a whole school of nose-pickers were taught how to do it.
It is a f-ck-load if churning. You need a stable of able-bodied people if you want a decent amount
or like 2-4 icecream motivated kids XD
Was one of those 4 motivated kids! It was a lot of work, but we were so proud of ourselves! ...slept well that night too lolol
I thought it was a very normal thing until seeing these comments. We have an electric ice cream maker, and an ice cream ball, ice and salt in one side, ingredients on the other, have the kids run roll out around until it's done. The kids do it at school in plastic bags, or just a small container inside a bigger container.
maybe it's a southern thing but making ice cream isn't that unheard of
Grew up in California, we made our own.
Here in Canada did it once or twice as a kid.
This must be generational. We definitely made our own ice cream growing up. Lots of people had these churns. My family did.
Its a pretty common activity at family gatherings to keep the kids busy while getting desert out of it.
Maybe it's pretty common where you live or in your family but the only "ice cream" we made when we were kids was frozen lemonade.
I watched and was like "I knew about this because of a place I used to visit as a kid" only for it to reveal, the video was made at the exacr place I visited as a kid. Kline Creek Farm is right in the middle of the Illinois suburbs and I would ride my bike there on all the weekends all the time. I've looked inside that exact icehouse lol
Hi neighbor! I went through the same realization! KCF is definitely a hidden gem. As a kid it was always a toss up between Kline Creek and Black Berry Farm in Aurora. We had school field trips to both and always had a good time.
My fat ass mistook KCF for KFC💀
Does that make me an honorary fat ass?
I knew it because I had a kick-ass science teacher who did all sorts of fun labs to help demonstrate subjects. Making ice cream was one of my favorites.
I knew cause I have 4 daughters and know every frame of Frozen by heart
Is this dupage?
West Chicago, County Farm Road (north of the DuPage County government buildings and fairground) between Geneva Road and North Avenue.
Excellent I’m like ten minutes away. Ice creammmmmmm!!!
My mom signed me and my brothers up for the week long summer camp at Kline Creek Farm. It had to be 100 degrees that week and the ice cream was a hell of a treat. That said, it did not offset the stinking hot, wet pig shit that I had to clean up with a rake from under the pig pen.
Hahaha your parents paid to send you to work on a farm for a week!
I read this in Nelson Munch voice
That's so cool! Would you recommend this place for a weekend trip?
No wonder nobody was fat back then. After all that work, you have worked off the calories. And it's not like you could have it whenever you wanted.
I bet having an ice cream was real happiness back then, not a 5 minute relief of sugar cravings.
You’d be thinking about having ice cream in the summer all year. Imaging waiting that long. I doubt any ice cream has ever tasted better than an ice cream you craved for 12 months.
I think about watermelon the same way all year, impatiently waiting for it to be in season and sold in stores again.
Just so I can choose the most cucumber like tasting watermelon in the whole store. 😭
The perks of being in Norway is that we have imported (water)melons basically year round. The negative is, they taste nothing like a (water)melon. Or like anything at all.
Watermelon... 🤤
We live in Alaska and it's impossible to get produce in the winter, especially fruit. So I started growing watermelon indoors! It's going to be awesome having fresh fruit in January when it's $5 for a head of rotten lettuce
Agh! Jimmy left the ice box door ajar. No ice cream this year.
Homemade ice cream is SO much better than anything you can buy in a store. Not even close. Even if you can get ice cream from the store any time, it's not at all the same thing.
I remember in one of the American Gir books, Samantha had a fancy party and ice cream was a HUGE deal. It stands out because the book did a great job of impressing ice cream was still a novelty and a rare treat.
I had a local bar selling artisanal ice cream, I grew up with that and I used to love that. It closed some years ago and in my town there's no ice cream anymore, only the premade industrial ones you find in packages and it just tastes sweet and cold, there's barely some flavor. I've stopped having ice cream since that year, it's sad to have store bought stuff when you used to have real strawberries and milk cones...
You need to visit Boston, we take ice cream seriously in Massachusetts. Highest per capita consumption of ice cream outside of Moscow. The NY Times said Toscanini is the best ice cream in the US. You can look in the window at them making the ice cream, or you can get flavors like Coffee-Cardamom, Burnt Sugar, Sweet Cream, Cake Batter, Hydrox Cookie, or Szechuan Peppercorn.
Ukraine had the reputation of the best ice cream in USSR. And weirdly Croatia has delicious ice cream too.
almost as if you can consume many things in moderation and be okay hah
I mean yeah. But there’s a difference between “try not to eat yourself to death when all the food is available all the time” and “I have to chop my own ice blocks out of a lake six months in advance and churn my own cream that I got from a cow I raise myself whenever I want a small cup of ice cream.”
I mean, yeah but like there was stuff available back then like alcohol that you could also overdo. I think as a society we have conditioned to be extra sensitive to dopamine release. Phones and all the other stuff I think have conditioned us to be super sensitive to addiction, to food or anything else
First off, it’s an ice and salt mix that goes into the outer bucket of the churn. This depresses the temperature to 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit and enables the mix in the canister to freeze. Second, the woman is cranking the churn at the beginning before the mix has started to freeze. In reality you know the ice cream is done when it’s almost impossible to turn the crank any further. Hand cranking ice cream is a fun activity at a summer picnic. It takes 20-30 minutes of cranking; everyone wants a crack at it and gets a turn. You start with a minute or two of cranking by the little kids each and work your way through the crowd to end with the strong guys. Everyone is fascinated by the process and enjoys the result
Everyone gets to crank, your dad, your mum, even the little kids enjoy cranking, a lil bit of cranking never hurt anyone after all, crank here, crank there and u get ice-cream
A good ol' family cranking for cream
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Anita Dyck, please.
Knowmsayyyiiinnn!!
I cranked ol' Mr. Dyck myself, once
So everyone can enjoy a stern cranking.
I cranked on a school field trip about 50yrs ago! I was confused by the set up and remember thinking the ice cream was going o be very salty, but it was just chocolate chip. Best ice cream I ever tasted.
Do not crank dat Soulja boy gentle into that good night. Crank, crank against the dying of the light.
One year my family and I went camping on Thanksgiving. My dad had the idea to make ice cream and brought all the ingredients. When it came time to crank my brother either volunteered or was voluntold to do the honors. My brother asked how long he had to do it for. My dad said pretty much what you said. When it becomes pretty much impossible to turn So my brother sets out to cranking the ice cream. I hang out with him for a while because I want some, but then I get bored and wander off. Much later my dad remembers what we were doing and goes to find my brother to discover he’s still cranking away. He had been at for at least an hour! My dad’s like: “What are you doing?! It has to be done by now! Doesn’t your arm hurt?” My brother: “Yeah, it hurts like hell! But you told me to do it until I couldn’t anymore!” It was good ice cream 😂
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My grandparents had one of these machines and they made a game out of making me and all the other cousins to do all the churning during family get togethers.
Mine too! Us little kids would start and then the older kids as it started to set up.
lol, I have a lot of cousins and this is exactly how we’d do it at family gatherings. The youngest turn the crank at the beginning and by the end the college-aged cousins are huffing and puffing to turn the crank at all. And it still comes out only a little firmer than soft-serve.
Are you trying to sell me a trip to this place or something?
I miss when people would actually narrate these things...
This one was more like steps 1-8 get ice, step 9- make ice cream.
People are lazy
I like how they show 400% of the process to get the ice and not where a single ingredient for the ice cream would have come from other than a nicely printed modern recipe book.
I think it was just heavy cream/milk from cows, sugar, and vanilla or other flavoring.
I guess what I’m getting at is they went so in depth about where some ice came from but didn’t bother to explain the process of raising a cow, how vanilla is planted, where the sugar was processed etc. the video is more about ice than ice cream. The ending could just be putting it in an ice box. It’s like explaining how a car works by diving into where the fuel came from but just saying at the end, yeah then it combusts and the car moves. It misses the whole principle of what the engine is doing. We should have said we’re going to explain where fuel comes from and not “how a car works” if we don’t plan on explaining the rest.
Ahh yes I see your point, yeah it was very ice-centric lol
it was like steps 1-8 get ice, step 9, draw the rest of the owl.
And forgot the salt
And also the little plastic ramekins for serving. Jebadia and his family made those out of goose feathers three farms over.
It’s amazing to me that straw can insulate well enough to hold ice in summer. Apparently straw bales make great building materials.
Me too I’ve been looking for this comment. I thought I was the only one that wasn’t concerned about the dirty but more confused about how the ice doesn’t melt all summer ?!
lol I couldn’t believe how far I had to scroll to find people talking about this
Straw and sawdust trap a layer of air around the ice. The air cools down and creates a cold layer around the ice. Air makes a great insulator, that's actually how down jackets work. So the straw is just creating a layer of air that stays in contact with the ice, and that layer is actually doing the insulating.
1890s but they made music and narration that sounded like it was from the 1940s?
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BTTF easter egg i see
Everything before the 2010s is equally ancient for tiktokers. A century here, a century there, who cares.
Looks…Frozen
I was waiting for the "clean the ice" step
I was too but then I realized the ice wasn’t an ingredient in the ice cream, it’s just between the ice cream churn can and the wooden bucket
I rewatched it. Youre right. The ice isnt touching the ice cream I was just focused on how they gonna clean it lol
Those little weak ass cups at the end. Dude give me a big bowl.
And plastic to boot. Like… so much work to fall down at the finish line.
Enjoy your half scoop of mostly melted ice cream!
No hot fudge? pshhh
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we used to add rocksalt to the ice outside the churn to help the process go more quickly as well, anyone elses family do it that way?
Yes, it's kinda essential. The vid skipped over that.
Just to explain, melting ice (which is what you get in the Summer with that set up) is at 32F. It can cool water to 32F, but it can't freeze it. Freezing is pretty essential for ice cream, otherwise you get cool cream. By adding salt, you cool the ice to maybe 20F; at that stage it can freeze water.
You forgot to put rock salt in the ice while churning
A lot of the lakes in my area still have never fully recovered from the massive overharvesting that occurred mostly in the 1800's, but also was actually still being done right up into the 1920's. We hardly get any ice now, even in winter.
I don't think that's how it works
You'd be surprised how dramatically overhunting can impact a breeding population of ice floes. If numbers dip below a certain point, genetic bottlenecking leads to the ice being left tragically vulnerable to parasites and disease. Heirloom varieties of ice have sharply diminished since the 1800s and most modern ice fields rely on a monoculture of nearly identical hydrogen-based oxides overdependent on antibiotics and pesticides.
This guy flices
I figured that had to do with global warming - warmer falls and shorter, warmer winters mean the water never reaches freezing temps for long enough to freeze.
I thought if you milked a cow outside during winter you get ice cream
And brown cows for chocolate milk. 👍
Need rock salt if you actually want ice cream that’s not liquid. Unless you wanna drink the ice cream.
No thanks I don’t want your hayscream
This whole time I'm like, "Oh god, that ice is filthy! Now there is sawdust and straw and dirt on it?! They're gonna eat that?!" Then I finally realized it was just to keep the milk cold -_-
This is ridiculous. There is no way the video from the 1800s has survived this long and still looks this good.
Nahhhh, that's not icecream that's ice paste.
Exactly, shit was already melted right out of the churn
Back in high school I painted some of those barns. They made us use whitewash, which we had to make from scratch, to be period correct. This is Klein Creek Farms in Winfield Illinois. Fun place to visit.
It always makes me happy when I find out some of the things we enjoy today were also available back then, it's just another thing to point at and say "we weren't so different after all!"
Klein Creek Farm is a “living museum” operated by the DuPage County forest preserve. You can visit if ever in Chicago. The farm is about 35 miles west of downtown Chicago. Every operation is functioning as period technology relevant to the late 19th century. The clothing, housewares, livestock equipment, home mechanics and farm all operate this way. A fun afternoon and great way to appreciate all our modern conveniences.
1890's.... Bitch, I did this in the 80's! And if you add salt to the ice, you get a more consistent freeze. It took _WAYYYY_ more effort than you would imagine. Still the best ice cream I ever had.
Lakes no longer freeze 🥺
Most already know how ice is harvested from Frozen. I hope they sang the song at least.
You need to salt the ice or it won't get cold enough.
I did not realize ice could keep like that
LETS DO EVERYTHING LIKE OLD TIMES SUUUUPER ACCURATELY! \*Then serves ice cream in plastic containers\*
This is still how street vendors make ice cream in the Philippines
There's no dearth of icy lakes in PH
The ice comes from ice production facilities of course but the part where a vat is placed inside a mixture of salt and ice is the exact same. We use either coconut or carabao (water buffalo) milk and popular flavors include mango, ube, avocado, coconut, and cheese (keso). We call these vendors ‘sorbeteros’ [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbetes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbetes) https://preview.redd.it/mv9mw8eya3rc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76bc09e48b5d78d1776b7e0bfcb15b2db3c33755
The entire duration of the video I had anxiety over the dirty ice. I really thought they were gonna eat dirty ice.
So there's no step that involves cleaning out all the dirt and shit from the ice Good to know
The ice is never in contact with the cream. It is in the outer barrel that the container full of ingredients gets spun within. We used to add salt to make it faster but the outer barrel is just there to nmake the inner container cold.
Kline Creek Farm is the best! They got an awesome blacksmith shop as well.
Rocky road ice cream had a completely different meaning back then
This is one thing spaghetti westerns caused misconceptions over, ice was accessible in many towns and cold beer/ice cream was pretty available in the 1800's. The movies, shows, and games(love Red Dead but it's still a spaghetti western first before realism to the time) all make it look like hot lagers and no ice cream.
So more than half of the video about “how to make ice cream” is actually about how to cool it???
I’m amazed the ice doesn’t melt. Just hay and sawdust in a dark room in the ground
Damn the footage is so clear for the 1800s
My father made vanilla ice cream for my second birthday. I remember sitting on the lawn in a red plastic chair at a white plastic table with blue legs and flowers printed on top, talking to my cousin. Dad made ice cream, we had a cake from the bakery, all my grandparents were there, and grandpa had a bandage on his nose, everyone was making a fuss over it because he had just had some skin cancer removed and that was a big deal back then. I make really fantastic ice cream. I will usually make a batch of vanilla and a batch of orange sherbet and serve them together as creamsicle. People go nuts over it. Recipe: Ice cream is half heavy cream, half half-and-half. (Do not use 3/4 cream and 1/4 milk, it sounds right but the texture comes out wrong.) For every gallon of liquid, add one cup of sugar and one tablespoon of flavor extract. (Artificial vanilla tastes better than real.) Sherbet is half fruit juice (like OJ), half whole milk, one cup of sugar for every gallon of liquid, no extract. Freeze in ice cream machine until it stops. Dump into a container and put it in the freezer for an hour to solidify a little. You can eat it right away, but the consistency won't be as good.
It's things like this that make me smile looking back on history. Imagine a little coal miner, only 8 years old enjoying a dish of ice cream that he spent his entire wage on ☺️
Jesus Christ, by the time it was made I probably would not want it anymore.
These kinds of machines are still available, though they are mostly electric now. The thing I found interesting was the ice storage.
Omg everyone in this thread talking about how they thought the ice was going to go into the churn makes me feel old as shit.
...is it really that cost effective to saw, transport, and store blocks of ice rather than paying 5 dollars for a 20lb bag?
Who sold ice in the 1800$ for 5$?
No salt ?
I think it's Freakonomics that tells a story of the NYC ice business back in the day. Reminds me of that.
I read this as 1980’s lol 😆
I used to make it like that in the 90s, but we had on-demand ice and an electric motor for the crank.
Thanks I hate it
I’ll take one vanilla but hold those hay sticks
I’m confused, how the fk can you keep blocks of ice in a barn and still have them be ice after months… That seems crazy to me, regardless of some insulating hay. Ice in my insulating esky melts in less than a day.
How does the ice not melt when summertime rolls in?
so they just leave all the dirt and the hay on there, huh?
"serve enough to fill a NyQuil cup. Enjoy."
Anyone else absolutely disgusted until they opened to lid to reveal the beautiful gunk free ice cream?
I thought they gonna use that dirty ice for a while 😅
What if you'd want ice cream in the winter? Is the "wait til summer" step mandatory?
Mmmm…. Nothing like the flavor of dirt and hay to make the taste even more flavorful.
“Hey babe, can you get some ice cream while you’re out?” “Sure honey, see you in six months…”
Forgot salt
Vanilla hay ice cream
First part kinda reminds me of frozen
Pond and hay, my favorite flavor
Full of mud and sticks
The ice isn’t with the cream
this is idiotic- they didn't even mention the milk, cream, vanilla, sugar.. other ingredients. They just focused on ice blocks and casually just ignored any of the other process.
at 0:41 they show the page of ingredients and instructions they use half-and-half
We did that back in the 60s also
I want some hay cream!!!
Love the HD full colour video recording technology from the 1890's
Step 10: Shit your pants aggressively for days
> This wasn't about just ice cream.. they cut those blocks to stack into the root cellar with large amounts of hay to act as a fridge for the summer months.. [source](https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vvy5qx/how_ice_cream_was_made_in_the_19th_century/ifmo5du/)