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- Let's find out if these old-fashioned potato cutters are as dangerous as they look. #emmymade
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 What are we testing?
0:51 The Jiffy French Fry Cutter.
1:24 The components.
1:48 How it works.
3:12 Testing.
5:31 Round 2.
6:57 The Slick french fry cutter.
7:40 Instructions.
8:22 Assembling the cutter.
9:20 Testing.
12:41 How I make air-fried fries.
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It's amazing how even after 20 years of her being gone I can still hear my mothers words and wisdom in my ears. And what they is very plain "don't even consider it Jamie you'll cut your wrist and bleed out". 😳
I mean, you might need some stitches...
I'm running out of fingers that HAVEN'T had stitches...
Ah, yes. The rough draft script for A Christmas Story. 'You'll cut your wrist and bleed out, kid!'
The same danger that you have with any other moder mandolin, I would like to have the wood block with mine, I think it is a lot less dangerous that the actual protection I have with mine.
The one with the knife looks terrifying 😬
@@saraocampo9066 The jiffy one seems alright, though it could use a component to keep the potato down againts the surface too. That should help with the bowing and springiness that leads to uneven thicknesses.
Missed opportunity to test cut proof kitchen gloves
They help but only so much 😂 even men in chainmail could be killed
@@Miss_Kisa94those things are scary dangerous
Cut resistant gloves.
Such gloves work great against an edge, really great, as in you really will not be cut almost all the time against an edge. The problem is that you can be stabbed. The prong type knives that make the close cuts for the julienne cuts can stab through the gloves. In other words, points of knives go through the mesh. You might have a chance with the chain mail gloves that are really fine because metal doesn't really stretch, but it probably means a little poke rather than a nasty one. I haven't used one of those yet, but trust me, the other ones can get poked very easy.
New subscriber here, but I've randomly seen your videos in the past. Just wanted to say that you've got one of the best personalities on TH-cam and you're just an absolute doll. I'm glad that TH-cam decided to slip your videos into my suggestions today.😊
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I agree! Emmy is my absolute favorite youtuber hands down! Every video is interesting, she never let's us down! I'm so glad she popped up for me 3 years ago! ❤❤
After losing the top of my knuckle using a mandolin style cutter, this thumbnail/title combo made me seriously cringe. Haha! I will for ever love the old school restaurant style fry press thats mounted to the wall. No injurys from those and I made 100s of lbs of fries hahaha!
You are much more brave than I.
Lol so like 2 bags of potatoes?
I'd cut over 1000 lbs a week!
I was here just praying she was safe. 🙏🏻
@@research1586 Doesn't take much vinegar, 2-3 tablespoons per gallon of water.
Don't those cutter usually come with some sort of safety grip or glove?
I’ve never used a mandolin and I’m terrified of them. Seems like for good reason.
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So true same here
Dude same!! Since those early poppin cookin days… icon Emmy
Its been so long since one of her videos popped up on my feed this was a pleasant surprise haha
@simonneliaa I remember when she was pregnant with her first child in Japan crazy how time flies. It's weird to say but Emmy is like a long lost cool aunt. I appreciate her wholesome content and the years she has brought so much joy to my life
When you brought out that paring knife, I immediately thought of my mom (who cuts EVERYTHING with just a paring knife) who was taught by her grandmother. I also love Clara's channel; it's so comforting to watch her cook.
😂 I cut everything with an 8" chef knife.... I didn't even have a paring knife for decades until my husband bought me one (and I still don't use it!)
Jiffy cutter was from 1950-1959 and the Slick is also from the 50's, but I don't know what range of years.
Please tell me this was made by that jiffy corn muffin mix company 🤞🤞🤞
@@K82vids Original Prochaska Mfg, USA is the gadget. The box mixes are Chelsea Milling Company products. Good question though!
before 1949 french fries were called dutch fries, and before that belgium fries and before that potato sticks
I guess that's why those one-armed bandit style cutters became popular, attach to a wall, insert potato, pull down lever, and potato jackpot every time... :P
(not that mine ever worked like that, first time I tried to use it, the blades popped out of their frame embedded in the still-whole potato!!!)
I was always fascinated watching my grandma slice EVERYTHING with only her hands... she could even peel tomatoes perfectly with a super old paring knife.
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Her shirt makes me think two things. These are the days as a song i knew waaaay back when i used to go to church and "These are the days of our lives"
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To Avoid slipping you should put a damp towel underneath
Mom had one that looks like one of those can crushers but the end of the compartment was a grid. You put the potato in and in one push of the handle the entire potato was cut into fries.
Wall mounted, or flat?
That's the kind I always used at restaurants.
In N Out uses those
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor Flat counter top.
Veg-o-Matic
@@jeg1353 Much older than that.
Cutting into the pot was how my Nanny taught me.
My mom still does it, and sometimes i want to do it too, is just that i am not fast cutter, but if you're someone who cuts fast, is easier..
As a person who tends to use big words, the fact that you put the definition of petina brought a tear to my eye. Accessibility to language is such a subtle way to arm your supporters with me vivid ways to defend what they believe in. Idk if you are gonna see my comment, but I've been with you for a long time and I'm staying❤
Yes!!! Language is one of those things that doesn't get taught/learned fairly, and we have to normalise not knowing/teaching each other word definitions.
I used obscure words because I was a home ed bilingual kid without many friends who learned mostly from reading, when I was older I got friends who made me feel really embarrassed and ashamed for using words they didn't know. We would both have been in a better position if we were okay with making language more accessible for each other... And I would have gotten comfortable with slang a lot earlier!
It's patina, not petina
Ironic then that you misspelled patina ...
I'd just like to gently and respectfully encourage a bit more tolerance here. Vocabulary acquisition and spelling are two very different skills and, while they're both inarguably important, the former is far more important than the latter. Plus the whole point of the original comment is that we all have a lot to learn, and that's ok! Making mistakes now and then is an unavoidable (and valuable!) part of that journey.
@@theoriginaledi that's all well and good, but if somebody doesn't point out the misspelling then you'll never learn that it was misspelled in the first place.
These slicers remind me of the tomato slicers we used when I worked at a deli. And yes, you do have to push with conviction, or you end up with tomato sauce. The only time I ever cut myself on it was when I was cleaning the blades and the sponge slipped. Not a big cut, though.
10:51 You could put the potatoes in the microwave for a minute. I do that before grating them for hash browns or cutting them into fries before I cook them in the air fryer.
I like to par-boil them myself.
They do benefit greatly from two-stage cooking.
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor When I want to make several at once I wash them and place them on a trivet in my pressure cooker with a small amount of water (1/2 to 1 cup). I pressure cook them for 5 minutes, let them rest for 10 minutes then release any remaining steam. Let them cook and store them, uncovered, in a bowl in the fridge. They are ready to cut up for fries, hash browns, potato salad, etc.
They probably peeled the potatoes when the Jiffy maker was originally used, which would make it a bit easier to push through. Skin-on fries are a modern preference that I personally do not share!
I personally cannot stand potato skins in any form.
Other than cutting myself, the Jiffy one had splinters on the block where it passed through the blades which is concerning to me.
Wood is not an ideal material for that component.
It would be -- relatively -- easy to replace with new wood or plastic.
Beware of toothpicks!
I love you mentioning Clara! Her legacy lives on and it warms my heart! I watch her videos especially when I miss my grandparents
Imagine that’s someone’s favorite kitchen tool back in the day. Still around today. How many family dinners was that tool used for. How lovely.
Her voice❤❤ is Soo soothing and educational 😂😂
Yikes! At first, the "Jiffy" looked "iffy", but it worked. Wasn't the "Slick" model intended to cut raw potatoes not cooked?
The instructions said to "par boil potatoes until half done with skin on" but didn't give exact cooking times. But i would want to try on raw.
@@happylittlebush9541 Those taters are overdone for this gadget. I used to make fries in a roadhouse, 55 yrs ago. Potatoes that size got 7-8 minutes of boiling. Instructions also say "let cool; peel" cutter works much better on peeled potatoes.
No more dangerous than mandolines! That Jiffy one was probably a dollar when new lol as a nure never cut toward you great way to pay ER big bucks
A mandoline has similar blades. Def recommend the cut resistant gloves! Also easier if you cut in half first so you start with a flat surface. Your second pass is what very pass should be when you start with a flat surface. You stop before you get to the outer surface.
NOTHING is more dangerous than a modern mandolin slicer!!!
Well, lots of things are more _dangerous._ Deep fryers exist...
Few things are likely to cause you as much pain... Although, deep fryers exist...
My mandolin came with a kevlar glove and I'm thankful it did. It's a wonderful kitchen tool that gives beautiful, even slices and cuts time off of prep but it is a thoroughly dangerous tool. With my glove on, I have thankfully yet to chop off any vital appendages, but I am totally aware of how easily it could happen. Even when I hand wash it, I keep the glove on.
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor Deli slicers also exist, haha
I just bought a cut proof glove.
My bigger issue with mandolins is that the adjustable panel tends to wobble a bit.
@@BrokenMonocleI lost part of one of my thumbs in a deli slicer once. So. Much. Blood. 😱
Emmy is always making things tasty.
I like that.
I saw the title and just had to watch the video! Very scary, or sketchy the first one. But vintage things are always interesting. Thanks for the show Emmy! It was thrilling to watch 😁👍
I love letting TH-cam alg determine which emmy video I watch next lol. For so long, I tried to go in order and watch all her videos in each playlist but I just cant help but bounce around based on what I see on the recommended! Loved this video per usual. Thanks, Emmy
this looked so sketchy haha, i was terrified for ya phalanges
Keep your eyes on your own phalanges.
@@eadweard.😂 😂
spilled my cup of tea on myself on that last cut.
Just noticed that is a ripple wine bottle you have your oil in. Love old gadgets.
I just wanna say my 4 year old is your biggest fan and she watches your videos as soon as i see the notification 😂❤(but not tonight because she's asleep lol)
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French fries and kitchen gadgets, I’m in heaven!
Thank you for another amazing video. Also, love, love, love the cute hair you've been rockin' lately - absolutely adorable! ❤
My mom grew up in the Azores, and what you're describing--cutting into the pot without a board--is exactly what my mom and grandmother did. It used to amaze me watching her dice onions with that method.
Your shirt made me nostalgic for the 90s, after the 70s a great decade for music.
01:25 The Jiffy cutter looks a LOT like the Frenchfry setting on my modern adjustable French mandoline that I bought at my local restaurant supply house. And yes, I wear cut-resistant gloves and use the pusher ANY time I use my mandoline, as I enjoy having my hands intact.
07:19 The "Slick" shoe-string potato cutter was granted US patent no. 1,973, 383 on 11 September 1934, grantee Frederick H. Miller of Portland, Oregon.
Thanks for looking up the patent date. So interesting!
Emmy’s captions are genuinely the best
That second cutter is like one my grandma would use.
I have extremely severe arthritis & I'm having a hard time dealing with it right now despite my meds bc I also have a fractured foot & a possibly torn meniscus (I'll find out for sure this Weds at the ortho Dr).
I took a half a 200mg pineapple CBD/THC gummy last night & rly was not having a good time with it. I'm lucky my husband and sister were here to keep me grounded but I know I was irritating them needing constant reassurance lol.
Turned your channel on, Emmy & the calming effect began immediately.
I was calmed almost completely by like the 4th video I watched.
No more MMJ for me lol.
Thank you, Emmy. You do more for us than you even know!💚
I still watch Clara’s videos 😊
She was lovely.🧡
I love your channel! I can see myself making a trip to the ER with the 2nd gadget!
I looked it up the first French fry cutter . It said 1950 to 1959 the second one is also from the 50’s.
I think it's just dulled with age, so it actually is quite dangerous as is, but if sharpened, it should be safer to use.
Though I will say, there is a modern version of this tool that is safer and easy to use, you can turn a 5 pound bag of potatoes into uncooked fries in about 10 mins with it.
Edit, I was referring to the first one, didn't know you were going to cover multiple vintage fry makers
Oh god the anxiety. I wanted to pass you my chain mail gloves I use for the mandoline haha. (Fun fact! The first time the man who became my husband stayed overnight, I snuck downstairs in the morning to make him an omelette before he woke and totally sliced the hell out of myself on a mandoline.)
The Slick Shoestring Potato Cutter is from late 1940's
If you put a little venigar in the water and salt that you soak them inover night, it helps to prevent them from browning. And you will not taste the vinegar. Unless you put too much.
I've cut thousands of pounds of potatoes into fries and the thing with the lever that cuts the whole potato at once works best.
I had one from the 50's.
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2:06 or the fact the potato can go flyin' and ya break something. 🤣
Ireland: "am I a joke to you?"
omg this video was terrifying. have been subscribed to your channel almost a decade! dude, you're awesome
Oh, I can't stand that knife one. I was so nervous watching you test that! The push one seemed ok, but...the wooden pusher is splintering. My family always cut things in their hand over the pot & I did the same until I was slicing a tomato & sliced into my hand. That's when I quit that, & started using a cutting board! Nearly 40 yrs. later, I still have the scar as a reminder to myself & to discourage others from cutting in the hand. But I do LOVE when you test old gadgets. You're awesome Emmy!
Honestly, I'd love to use that Jiffy cutter, looks cool!
No splintering of the wood on the Jiffy?
None that I noticed.🤷🏻♀️
Amazing! I have seen one of those shoe string cutters in my grandparents house and never knew what the contraption was,... who knew!
The second one gave me a clue as to how one of my inherited kitchen gadgets was to be used. Imagine someone saw that second gadget and said, "why add your own knife? lets make it all in one!" I had always just assumed it was for julienne carrots or something, but it wasn't great at hard veg, and when it was in my possession, I hadn't heard of shoestring fries yet.
I was always fascinated by the hand-held crinkle cut tool my mum used when making fries. Eventually I was old enough to get the job! So satisfying somehow. So much nostalgia wrapped up in food. ❤
That Slick is Freddy Krueger approved.
Edward Scissorhands....
4:56 Omg its like watching a horror movie
I spent about a half hour every day after school cutting French fries on a jiffy cutter just like that one for my parent's restaurant, The Chicken Nest, on Pico Blvd in Santa Monica in the mid 1950s. I started when i was 8 years old. I never cut myself. If you have the patent number you can look up the year it was first patented.
I think back then you knew the kitchen could be a dangerous place. So I think people were more cautious than we are today. We know all the safety features built into things we don’t think about them. Back then you knew you had to be careful
You are supposed to cut planks that fit into the cutter bfore you push the potato through. At least it worked better for me that way. BTY I'm 78 yrs old.
Yep, in this video: th-cam.com/video/5q6Z1kd-DnQ/w-d-xo.html.
That is so cool! They have some on EBay without the wooden piece for 12.00.
After using it, I think the wooden block is pretty important to its effectiveness, so try to get one with a block.
Been watching you for over a decade. You’re still just as lovely! :)
that second one shows way back when they would give you a patent for anything. my first thought was in the drawing it shows holding the potato and cut toward you which any one knows is a no no the first one look pretty legit until you lose or break the wood part.
I could be wrong, but I think the jiffy cutter is meant to hook over the edge of your table with that back tab of metal so you have better leverage for pushing the potato through the cutter.
Knife going towards wrist is very scary
Ha! These were all time-savers for us 50's and 60's kids. Technological marvels! Made us firmly look forward to the flying cars of the 70's!
Love from morroco ❤
I have that same airfryer it cooks so fast
3:44 I took a chunk out of my finger about a year ago with a mandolin, and I've still got a very visible and prominent scar. The urgent care nurse told us that they see mandolin injuries several times a day.
I love Clara's videos!!!
Awesome fries 🍟 video Emmy! Love your hairstyle in this video too 😍
Lobster claw!🦞 The first French fry cutter is a lot like a mandolin.
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A mandoline is the router (woodworking nerd here) of the kitchen.
It's a little messy, but the router is actually the router of the kitchen.
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor But it's worth it for a nice demi bullnose fry.
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That reminds me of an incident on Clarkson's Farm, great show, I won't give it away.
The style of cutting veggies and stuff over the pot is the one my mom used, too.
I cut right into the pot till this day and I'm 58 been cooking since I was 6 that's how I was taught and that's how I still do it
I loved watching Clara!
As usual, a fun video to watch. I was scared with that second thing and your wrist being that close to the blade.
PS. - love Clara’s cookbook (in Apple Books) to go along with her videos.
My mom cuts with a knife like that, in the palm toward herself. So I learned the same way. Fully knowing it’s not the safest (but most times it’s the quickest). My grandma was born in the 20s, so the depression era checks out, cause that’s when she would’ve been learning to cook.
5:08 made my panick so hard you would think i was at a disco 😅
I like adding a little cornstarch with the oil. I also do the 2nd air fryer method.
THIS was like watching a HORROR MOVIE!!
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I've got to stop watching this channel when I'm hungry
This hairstyle is so pretty on you Emmy!
I’m so clumsy, I’ve nicked the top of my thumb and fingernails with regular kitchen knives. I think I’d probably lose a finger on the jiffy. 😂
The biggest issue with those old gadgets is that you often have to push with a lot of force, and if your hand (or the potato) suddenly slips, you're now driving your flesh into a sharp edge very forcefully, with no time to react, resulting in a very bad injury. My grandmother had an ancient potato grater that was nothing more than a wire mesh screen. You had to push so hard to get the potato to go through the screen, it resulted in skinned (grated) knuckles every time. We would (ruefully) joke about how much "protein" was going into the potatoes.
Happy to watch this, take a break from watching the news
I learned the "hand cutting" from my Mom. it's a quick way to chop smaller soft stuff just-in-time. I mostly cut fruit into my porridge that way.
...and as soon as you know your knife and ingredient, it feels way less sketchy than it looks. unless it's fresh off a waterstone the blade shouldn't be able to cut your skin before pushing the skin in a few millimeters. that cushioning and the close-quarters control and leverage makes the method quite safe. I mean as long as you don't try to cut a whole pumpkin that way...
most impressive feat I've seen was a buddy's granny hugging a loaf of bread and cut it to near perfect slices with a knife half it's thickness
You should ask Cavalcade of Food. He has an entire storefront of his collection. He is a font of knowledge. His name is Kevin & is from Michigan.
Just a tip, my grandma uses one of these to this day, you’re supposed to pre slice the potatoes in half before using! That’s why it got easier per se when you got it really flattened out.
I really enjoy these vintage gadgets videos. A couple days ago, I was at Value Village AKA Savers in the US and they had a brand new commercial French fry cutter. I picked it up for CDN $16.00 which is about USD $2.00. I had to buy at that price cause I didn't want to lose any money. : - )
16CAD is like 11 USD
As a kid we would have used that jiffy potato cutter until the wheels fell off! Would I let my kids use it? Heck no😂! Definitely a trip to the emergency room 😳😁!
Both of those looked significantly more difficult than just slicing with a normal chef's knife 😄
My mom uses a potato cutter from the 80s, which came with different squares slicer to make different styles of french fries. It's was cool but didn't use much because of the store bought french fries.
Thanks Emmy I’m not quiet that age yet but I seem to remember the longer one 🤷♀️ …I do have to say I don’t think I can use them I would probably cut my finger lol ♥️♥️Thanks for the video .