Thomas Jefferson's Famous Pasta
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- We made a pasta press based off a design from Thomas Jefferson and used it to make fresh pasta. What an adventure!
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I've always wondered how wooden screws were cut and tapped- very ingenious!
Yeah I really just wanted to learn about old noodles, turns out I get a double whammy of noodles and wood engineering!
Wicked cool.
Isn't it obvious? It's literally the same way modern screws are threaded
That was super cool to watch and learn about!
and now I'm wondering how they made those screw boxes
Hey not for nothing, a lot of us who work with our hands can do incredibly precise work... with modern tooling. Look at the fit and finish on his press, the thing is perfect, i can do that no problem down stairs in my shop, where theres tablesaws and drill presses and lathes and....electricity. this dude just did it essentially with some sharpened pieces of steel and patience. All the props. All the props my dude.
When I was a teenager and had nothing better to do, I learned how to make stone tools and I am continually amazed with what humanity was able to do with tools like that
Remembering how quiet and rather shy Brandon started of presenting on this channel, I am really amazed at how comfortable and "at home" he feels now, so it seems. Love watching your content and reliving the times I never witnessed myself.
This is honestly astonishing, making a working version of such an old blueprint is beautiful. Your videos just become more and more vital for top tier history documentaries. I can't believe I'm watching this for free.
The Townsends crew once again surpass my expectations and kinda should of expected it but that creation of the pasta maker with period tool was impressive and cool to see how people back then make the tools that would make the consumer products. kinda puts into focus another reason for small meals before bed. That is a LOT of work and effort after a long day outside
You'd be well off to have someone (a partner or cook) who prepared the food while you were in the field. Then everyone could enjoy dinner together. 😊
One thought on the pasta dough. Usually when I make pasta I'll roll the dough out a little, fold it in half or thirds. Then repeat that a few times. it allows the gluten to form longer chains and it makes for a much smoother and softer pasta. It looks like you just went right from a ball to pressing it out. And the result looks 'rough' or not coming out as a smooth pasta. It looks more like little pieces just pressed together. You've got what looks like rough concrete consistency, and it should be more smooth peanut butter looking. I know I'm not saying that right. But once you do the kneading a few times you'll know instantly what difference I'm talking about.
I agree it looked like the dough needed to be worked a LOT more.
While I like it that way, I believe what he made is more traditional. The roughness was thought to trap the sauce more than smooth will.
I think it might be a combo of not enough kneading and also a very subtly rough edge on the die cast. Either way it looks pretty good all in all
I don't know much about cooking in a formal sense, but this stood out to me immediately. I was like "why isn't he rolling the dough out more before just going to the extruder?!" and the next scene immediately vindicated my concerns. I have made homemade pizzas with a non pizza dough recipe, and each time I do it I knead a little more than the last time, as I'm learning that it makes things much smoother once finished. I get it in layman's terms, but I really appreciated reading about how it works with the correct terminology (I'm a big fan of chemistry, and cooking is very much the edible side of chemistry lol)
I'd be interested to see a side by side comparison of how the press works with the two different methods. I'd imagine Joh and Brandon are following the original directions that may well have been wrong, or simply designed to produce a different result to the pasta we expect today.
such an incredible amount of labor to make what we take for granted when we open that blue box of mac-n-cheese...
That’s blasphemy comparing Kraft poison to homemade pasta…🤬
You still eat that kids food? Yuck. Boomers never change
@@truelight2097 wouldnt know, never had homemade pasta...
@@truelight2097😂
@@truelight2097all pasta is made the same way calm down there chef boy-are-dee
ok, making that screw press was very cool. Those screw boxes were ingenious.
Very much enjoyed watching this build. Great idea make one.
as an engineer, I love authentic engineering (planimeter, pipe wrench....).. what you showed is touching this aspect of me. we in Palestine we made (my grandfather did) some tools for pasta (we call it RKaqat and other names). lovely, keep going.
Great video. I love seeing things made by hand like this whether wood or metal or something else.
I very much appreciated the wood working segment of this video. It was neat to learn about the screw box and how wooden screws were made
This was very interesting and very informative for example making the screws and such very interesting thank you so very much I really enjoyed it
That’s amazing! So much attention to detail and workmanship. Fascinating to see how macaroni was made back then!
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!
Thanks for making such wholesome content. The video was a blast
Pilgrims: “I don’t know how to make this Pasta!”
Etruscan Romans in 4th Century B.C.: “Amateurs..”
The build, the work and the result? Homemade noodles tasty treat :D
This is why I love this channel!
That was absolutely ingenious!
Love it! You and Max Miller at Tasting History ought to do a collab sometime.
I work installing and repairing modern pasta presses and besides the size of the hopper and electric motor, it’s the same
5:14 Imagine how many retakes he had to go through of him driving in that flathead screw by hand... Damn, I hate those things so much.
Nice job making the press. I am surprised that the die held up. I thought it would have been too thin and the centers of the circles would have bent. Thankfully, I was wrong.
Pasta by rights is VERY easy. Lasagna is sheet pasta. Linguini easy to make by hand. Elbows, shells, ziti, angel hair, etc, all take tools other than a rolling pin and a knife.❤❤❤❤
We have portable hand held versions of this contraption in India. Ours is a bronze alloy.
Brandon you do amazing work. I call dibs on Brandon for a game of Survivor!👍🏼
And dibs on Jon for the food. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼And if Jon not available Ryan or Michael👏🏼👏🏼
the artisan is very talented !
You said in the other video how you were disappointed this one wasn't that successful but maybe it has to do with the algorithms because it wasn't even suggested to me and I'm a long time follower of your channel.
Anyway , I thought it was brilliant! I love learning how things used to be made and how to construct your own " machines" to make stuff.
You could do a special series like this like how to make a press for sorghum for making molasses or a small flour mill and how to use it.
I saw once someone explaining How a farmer could mill small quantities of flour with a small grindstone using a foot peddle contraption made of wood. Was this just a European thing?
Anyway, I love this channel!!!!😊
Would it be possible to do this with a lever mechanism that would be simpler/cheaper? Also melting the cheese by holding a hot iron over it is an amazing idea.
Wow great job on the threads!!! Gotta make me one
I gues you just found a complicated way to make german Spätzle :) nice pasta press !
Great video.
In italy women has done pasta for centuries before Thomas Jefferson experienced it.
They didnt use any machines but rather simple rolling pins and thats how they are made even today in Italy.
Yet the Italians did not invent pasta
Pasta doesn’t need a machine…just a rolling pin and a knife 🙄
🎶 🎵 Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in a Limey and turned him into macaroni. That's how we Yanks beat the Limeys in the American Revolutionary War. 😜 Lol
-Dave the Bloody Yank
No, only with an Atlas pasta machine.
Im surprised there's no olive oil. I guess the milk takes the place of that and would have been more accessable on the frontier
would love it if you were to also work with einkorn grain and whole flour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forget the nutmeg? We are not barbarians!
with the whole wheat it looks like dog food haha but still i bet its tasty
Heck yeah Whole Wheat. This a real man.
Great video, but doesn't this seem over engineered to just smash dough through a hole?
This guy needs to come back more often to teach us about 18th century woodworking
Roy Underhill made shows that are all about 18th century woodworking. I think he wrote books about it, too.
Seeing the wooden screw getting made was the most fascinating part of the video! Not all that complicated, but somebody had to figure it out!
Which means it's highly complicated. Tools, angles, math, tribal knowledge. This doesn't come into existence in a vacuum.
@@Michaelfatman-xo7gv That's the thing. Most inventions are simply applying the accumulation of knowledge someone has on a subject. They didn't think of everything themselves in most cases.
This press is very similar to the screw press used for pressing olive mash for oil. Brandon makes it all look easy. I don’t think there are a lot of people today who have that ability anymore. I really enjoyed this one, thanks. 🥰💕❤️👍👍
It would be cool to see how else they could use that press now that they have it. It would just be a matter of making new faceplates!
Thanks for showing us the process of making the machine!
maybe a strange thing to say but the squeaking of the screw as it's pulled out from the screwbox is so comforting :D
Hey whatever gets you through the night my friend
Maybe Townsend should do an ASMR video?
Looks delicious! Great job, Brandon, on making the pasta machine!
I remember seeing the drawings that Jefferson proposed to make noodle presses more widespread and thought that looked interesting and wondered what it would be like in a real application? This is a very cool project, and that definitely took a lot of work (when he was talking about the thread and I realized how much work that'd be for just one machine I was awestruck).
Bros hundred years old
Brandon is a dang good craftsman
wait did Brandon seriously lose like 100 lb in 10 months? he looks amazing wtf I missed his entire transformation.
the best craftsmen build the best future
I've got an antique rope bed from the early 1800s that's a family heirloom. It has wooden components that are threaded like are shown in this video and I've always wondered how they were able to make it without power tools. Now I know! Really interesting stuff.
Amazing woodworking!
I will never look at macaroni noodles the same way again. Respect! What a lot of work to make the machine and then form them. I will appreciate these little gems so much more now. Thank you! 😀
Fascinating work. I still think you've been blessed by having Brandon travel through a time portal!
I'm not a doomsday prepper by any means, but my slight fascination with the concept of "what would happen if the power grid suddenly shuts down" makes me love this channel even more... informative in both a historical sense and a practicality sense
Well if you're not, you'd best change right quick.
Dude. It's the power grid. Sleep at dark. up at dawn. Amish.
@@Michaelfatman-xo7gvbro thinks he's noah
Same. It's so cool how it all started and developed. We should bring back these old ways of doing stuff.
The Townsend team would probably be able to ride out societal collapse almost fine !
I wouldn’t have used whole wheat flour, it has pretty low gluten. Semolina (durum) only for pasta.
Dear Mr. Townsends,
I always enjoy your builds to see you and your staff create stuff using the same tech. they used back then . Keep it up.
So, set of plates with different holes -> different shapes of noodles
yes
Thank you for posting a fascinating video. Making one of these machines from wood took skill and learning. The resulting noodles have a rough outside texture that is toned down a bit today by using bronze dies. Those ridges catch the sauce perfectly.
Bang up job by Brandon on this pasta machine. The original drawing looks like so many other contemporary drawings of contraptions, a “thing”.
But it turns out that with some work it can become a thing; no quotation marks!
Also the final product looks delicious. I’m not even a a big mac & cheese guy, but that looks amazing.
Like Brandon's how to videos. So many things we take for granted today required real skill to make a tool just to make food. Well done. Really enjoyed this video.
Brandon is amazing.
That's so impressive. Thank you, guys, for keeping history alive.
Excellent job building, videos are always good. thanks
Love learning from Brandon
This video brought back memories of sitting in my grandmother's kitchen watching her make cappelletti with her rolling pin. She would have gotten a kick out of the Thomas Jefferson-style pasta machine! Great video!
I love watching the progression of this channel -- e.g. at 9:30 he's eating with the utensils we saw them make in another episode.
"We have the screwbox lubed and ready to go." Excellent!
one of your BEST videos yet. Yet, you have many grat videos.
that dough looked a little bit chonky!
Always happy to see Brandon in a video!
You built the machine and then made the pasta. I'm honestly not surprised with this channel.
That was just fascinating watching that press being made.
Wood working and food 🍝 the greatest things can come from the collaboration of skills
Really really nice job Brandon, what you just did is a far dream for me as a woodworker
Thank you for your content. This is incredibly heartwarming.
'that's using your noodle!'...
Another interesting and informative video, I appreciated the effort the team has made.
I thought that was a pasta 3D printer in the thumbnail and thought, "Wow, people in the 18th century were advanced."
Here I am looking at my 3d printer and going ... hmmm, I could probably make that ..
It kinda is a 3D printer, in a way.
I would love to see Brandon design more plates to make different shapes!
wow!!! those wooden threads are incredible!!!
Awesome! Thank you for the detailed explanation of how things were done back in the day. Here in 2024, we take for granted how we get shaped pasta and other things. Knowing how the originals were made blows my mind.
Brandon is SO talented!!
absolutely amazing craftsmanship Brandon!
I'm Italian and I will try your pasta for sure !!! You made "fresh pasta type" the one we usually made for special meals like for example christmans.... I remember my grandma doing that. Never saw this pasta press... I'm thinking to make one. Ciao from Italy
No. I only ever made some pasta from an intruder.
Did it come in-tru-da window?
Pasta, a dry component that keeps for years, and only requires salt water to cook with. Perfect for voyages on a ship. Makes sense that exployers would keep it for use on navy boats, and exploration.
"Screwing Around" really paid off this time 👍
Now, I understand how they threaded the tensioning peg of my antique spinning wheels. Really cool video. Thanks! 🥰
@0:56 Annnnnd this is why I absolutely love you guys. Keep our history alive!
Very cool. Always interested to see the period woodwork. I never thought how one might make a wood screw like that.
Holy crap a wood working AND cooking episode?!? Sweet!
Pasta … aka, “nature’s candy”. 🤤
I love how you can build pretty much anything out wood.
3:33 to 3:52
That actually took about it a day and a half of work… but thanks to the magic of editing, they made it look like he knocked that out in 20 seconds. 🎞️ 😃
I love these videos that include carpentry it was really cool to see how wooden threads can be made
It's as amusing as it is baffling to think that all pasta in the age was called, "macaroni," even if certain song lyrics *don't* leap directly to mind. It seems that I could have showed up with a package of dried spaghetti to cook, had someone ask me when the "macaroni" was ready, and then had about of confusion set in to rival "Who's on First?"
I think if you had used white flower that was available in the 18th century, or a modern durum semolina flower, then it wouldn't have been so chunky. As long as it tastes good.
Things I didn't think I'd learn about today: how to make wooden screws
Even with modern industrial equipment, jt isnt as easy as this. These guys are next level
Wow. This was quite a project. I'm amazed that it worked successfully on the first try.