Ever Made Pasta With An Extruder?
2024 ж. 23 Нау.
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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
This guy needs to come back more often to teach us about 18th century woodworking
Absolutely. I love seeing blacksmithing and woodworking on here.
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.
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!
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
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...
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@@truelight2097all pasta is made the same way calm down there chef boy-are-dee
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.
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
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. 😊
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
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?
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.
Thanks for showing us the process of making the machine!
Looks delicious! Great job, Brandon, on making the pasta machine!
That was just fascinating watching that press being made.
Amazing woodworking!
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 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! 😀
So, set of plates with different holes -> different shapes of noodles
yes
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.
ok, making that screw press was very cool. Those screw boxes were ingenious.
wow!!! those wooden threads are incredible!!!
Wood working and food 🍝 the greatest things can come from the collaboration of skills
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.
Really really nice job Brandon, what you just did is a far dream for me as a woodworker
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.
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.
Love learning from Brandon
Very much enjoyed watching this build. Great idea make one.
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.
Really neat to see the way the wooden threads were made. Brandon is very talented to get the tolerances on all those pieces correct & make it look easy. Glad the pasta came out well.
I love these videos that include carpentry it was really cool to see how wooden threads can be made
Thank you for your content. This is incredibly heartwarming.
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.
Always happy to see Brandon in a video!
I would love to see Brandon design more plates to make different shapes!
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!
What a true craftsman making that pasta press! We went to Colonial Williamsburg a few years ago and I was so impressed to watch the trades people make all these daily use products, furniture, etc. all by hand. Amazing !
You built the machine and then made the pasta. I'm honestly not surprised with this channel.
Brandon is amazing.
"We have the screwbox lubed and ready to go." Excellent!
@0:56 Annnnnd this is why I absolutely love you guys. Keep our history alive!
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.
Very cool. Always interested to see the period woodwork. I never thought how one might make a wood screw like that.
Brandon is SO talented!!
Wow. This was quite a project. I'm amazed that it worked successfully on the first try.
What an excellent project, perfectly executed by Brandon and I'm sure is a complete collaboration between the two of you from beginning to end. Thx guys for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us.
Another interesting and informative video, I appreciated the effort the team has made.
The engineering and machining here is amazing. Really shows a level of ingenuity and industry that will soon be a sign of the time.
Great video. I love seeing things made by hand like this whether wood or metal or something else.
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.
Now, I understand how they threaded the tensioning peg of my antique spinning wheels. Really cool video. Thanks! 🥰
I wouldn’t have used whole wheat flour, it has pretty low gluten. Semolina (durum) only for pasta.
Amazing work as always
one of your BEST videos yet. Yet, you have many grat videos.
If I were younger I'ld reach out to Townsends and apply for a summer job. I'ld be fine with wiping the floor and doing the dishes 😁 That is a great pasta machine. Nicely crafted, well done 👍
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. 🎞️ 😃
absolutely amazing craftsmanship Brandon!
Bigoli! That press you guys made is so darn similar to the kind still used to make "bigoli" in Veneto. Amazing to see what does and doesn't change.
Bigoli is also typically using farina integrale as well, which gives it the most fantastic brown color. Also as I recall the eggs are usually duck eggs?
Loved the video!
"Screwing Around" really paid off this time 👍
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!
Wow . Props to the guy who made this
Even with modern industrial equipment, jt isnt as easy as this. These guys are next level
Would totally love for y'all to make diff plates for this so u can make diff types of pasta. That would be cool.
I really, really love the videos that show how things were done in the time. This is just wonderful!! Learning about the way people did things in the past is so interesting and so fascinating. Thanks for this one!
This is so awesome! Thank you for making this. I’d love to see a video of how those taps/dies are made
Thank you for showing how much work sticks in this simple machinery. So much we take for granted today....
Wow that’s a lot of work, and I thank you for it. That was a lot of learning in one video. Excellent.
Loved seeing the device being made as well as used, really neat sort of combo episode.
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
Excellent job building, videos are always good. thanks
Very fascinating history on a classic comfort food. Cheers!
Damn, love how technical Brandon was with designing and crafting this machine. Very interesting watch, thank you 😊
What a great video for your unique category and channel! 👏 Bravo, I got my education for the day!
Thanks for making such wholesome content. The video was a blast
An amazing woodworking piece. With many tools that he had to make himself in order to make the device. Jefferson would've loved watching Asian cooks make noodles by hand. It's practically magical how they can do it.
Oh, he would be all over it! He would probably love Asian food.
My new favorite Townsend's video!
That’s amazing! So much attention to detail and workmanship. Fascinating to see how macaroni was made back then!
im glad people like brandon are around to carry on that dying art
A fantastic undertaking executed by a truly skilled team! Incredible woodworking, and the pasta looked quite hearty and delicious at the end. It would be fun to experiment with different mold shapes and recipes. Nicely done!
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
Putting the threads on the wooden screws was fascinating, probably more interesting than everything about the pasta! That was great.
The first and main thing that hits me about this is how big and thick the noodles are, today's spaghetti and macaroni are like micro or nano scale in comparison.
Big, thick fat and oh-so-good egg noodles can be made easily by hand. My German grandmama showed me how in 1965 when I was in 5th grade. 😋
And folks use to burn up all those calories too! They were, indeed,needed !
@@lynnodonnell4764 I miss my step mom’s beef and noodles quite a bit. Her and her mother have passed since. I’m not even all that old, they just died pretty young. All that southern cooking and their diabetes 😔
@@VespasianJudea Tho so very yummy, too many carbs are the basis of Southern cooking often ending w early deaths. I am diabetic myself but at 70 I still love doing yardwork /gardening. I am sorry for the loss of your loved ones. Your comment tells me you valued them very much ♥.
Such a cool video! I'd love to do woodworking again. Also, i appreciate how neat and precise the technical drawing is that Brandon made. For someone like me who can't draw worth a lick, i appreciate it.
Just looking at the large wooden screw, it is a thing of beauty. Such precision.
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
Brandon is amazing with his woodworking skills.
I love the crafting episodes, guys!
that contraption is one of the best things i've seen ever.
I love how you bring history to life with this channel.
You don't know me but I've been watching and supporting you for almost a decade. I just want you to know I'm so proud of you and how you grew as a channel with honest content, not click bait. Thank you for everything you've brought our way!
Mr Townsends and his nutmeg 😂 love it!
This is why I love this channel!
Awesome job Brandon! 😀
I don't need to build a pasta press but now I want to. When the zombie apocalypse happens everyone will be jealous of my pasta and will make me their leader. Thank you both for your contributions to my empire!
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That was absolutely ingenious!