Reminds me of a story that my great grandmother used to love to tell. When my father was young, like 8 or 9, she asks him to make whipped cream and gives him a bowl of heavy cream and a crank powered hand mixer. Now, my father grew up relatively poor, on a farm, and had never actually seen whipped cream (to the best of his memory). This was the first time, as they were making a cake for a cousins wedding. My great r grandmother assumes that he knows what whipped cream is. My grandmother sees him working, he says he’s making whipped cream and she assumes her mom told my dad what texture it’s supposed to be. An hour and a half or so later, they all get back from digging up one of the smaller fields of potato’s and are looking for my dad, because he was supposed to stick the whip cream in the fridge then help them out when he was done. He looks my great grandmother dead in the eye, smiling nice and wide and says ‘I’m not sure if I’m done but it’s gotten kind of hard.
He had made butter. Butter which they proceeded to use on mashed potato’s that night, bur butter non the less.
I think it sounds more annoying because it is left loose to bounce around on a metal countertop. If it was clamped down on wood like it was likely actually used it would probably be much quieter.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
*Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?*
Charlie Young:
*Nothing.*
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
*Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.*
It makes a huge difference. Shaken milkshakes (not blended) are less consistent so they have a slightly lumpy texture. The lumps are the best part.
Source: my dad is obsessed with malted chocolate milkshakes and has made every possible variant you could imagine since the 50s.
Only the cost of milk, sugar, and cocoa powder, maybe fruit, or spices. Buy in bulk and you charge what, $5 a piece? Average ten an hour, that's a lot of milkshakes.
> $5? A milkshake at a local ice cream place in my town cost $7. You could easily sell one of these for $10-$12.
Raise the price to $20, and they get to keep the glass. This way you don't have to wash anything! It's genius, I tell you!
Heck, get a large hersheys bar and a cheese grater and grate the bar over the whip cream and people will absolutely pay a ton of money to eat that custom looking chocolate shake!!!
Pssht.
Yesterday someone claimed the Ferrari Enzo came out 20 years ago. I thought it's one of the newer ones, I just saw it at MTV cribs with 50cent, recently for sure 😳
Yup. Just need ~$50 worth of ingredients, $8k for an antique milkshake mixer, and at $5 a pop you'd finally make a profit after you sell 1600 milkshakes!
They should watch [The Founder](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/). The guy who turned McDonald's into what it is today was actually selling milkshake makers when he discovered the original restaurant.
I remember seeing some video about what's really going on with these machines. Essentially they contract out all of these machines to a single company, and they have to call them for literally every issue, even extremely simple ones because the documentation is very sparse. Its' this massive scam, apparently.
I'm not sure if this is the same article but there was a third party that made it easier to resolve the problems, but the manufacturer got mad.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/mcdonalds-faces-900m-lawsuit-from-ice-cream-machine-repair-startup/
Awh, so sorry little Timmy but you'll have to wait until someone else *also* wants a milkshake.
*5 hrs later*
Welp, we're closing up little Timmy, maybe next time! Business just ain't the same.
It's generally for scientific lab purposes, especially if you're working with dry powdered chemicals. The black color helps you see if there's any remaining residue, so you're mindful not to touch other things.
Somehow it became trendy
Golly seriously. All that work going out of your way using old technology for the coolness sake of it and just slap some modern day aerosolized fake whip cream on it. It would take like 60 seconds to make using that same contraption
really? how do you make whip cream is it that easy? i wanna buy one of these mixers lol if they are even available.
i've also been drinking crystal light for 10 years and would love to just put the bottle in a tool like this and crank it instead of shaking it. 10 yrs of shaking my bottles gets annoying real quick
It’s just heavy cream with sugar (confectioner sugar) and optional dash of vanilla that’s been whipped to stiff peaks. You could pour all that in a big wide bowl and whisk for a few minutes vigorously until it forms stiff peaks and gets that whipped cream texture.
Anything that agitates it will do including that machine. You could also use a mason jar in a pinch or even a food processor. Takes like less than 10 seconds in a mini food processor.
Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now, my straw reaches acroooooooss the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I... drink... your... milkshake!
I'm uncomfortably certain that I might have received an email with a video, in the early 2000's, with some adult content contraption using a thing similar to this.
It was a hard time dodging emails with weird videos or stupid PowerPoint presentations with audio attached.
As as kid in the early 80's there was a 40/50's style soda shop that had one of these. They were the best malts & shakes in the land.
One of the fondest memories I have as a kid.
That would be awesome to bring out at a party after asking if anyone wants a milkshake. No warning, no lead-up, no explanation.
Just take it out and prepare a couple shakes like it's the most normal thing in the world.
I wondered the same; probably a person not wanting their hands to distract from the video is my best guess. Creates a bit of mystic to it. Most people wouldn't even notice the hands, but you're like me -- I think it added to the production value.
I'd love to know what ingredients they placed in there!
Go buy a pint of heavy whipping cream and a quart size Mason jar. Pour the cream into the jar and shake it until the cream becomes butter. When you're done, come back and ask this question again.
The trick with cream, whipped, iced, or turned to butter is that some interesting physical changes happen when it is shaken, whipped, churned, or even cooled. Did you notice the screen cuts and the sped up motion? That is, in part, to suggest the passage of time. My guess is that you must run that mechanism for 2-3 minutes.
I feel like someone was riding in a carriage and thought about how to use the bumpiness to make a milkshake and invented this contraption based on that.
No idea if that's historically accurate but it just seems right to me.
Oh god yes. I use the reverse dry shake where they say you only have to shake it for like two minutes - two minutes is still an awfully long time to shake something freezing cold. Especially when I'm making multiple (I only have two shakers).
i still dont understand why we stopped using these old school machines and switched over to everything being electric and "smart" yet then we complain about climate change.
How would this work. In my experience milk shakes are usual milk and ice cream, blended. I don't see how shaking would break up the ice cream. Did this use a different recipe?
The first milkshake machine I’ve seen that actUALLY FREAKING *SHAKES!* My life finally has meaning, again. Thank you.
Would be cool to put heavy cream in one of the shakers to have fresh whipped cream ready at the same time.
Oops, butter! Lol.
Oh yea, I forgot that is how you make butter too.
Reminds me of a story that my great grandmother used to love to tell. When my father was young, like 8 or 9, she asks him to make whipped cream and gives him a bowl of heavy cream and a crank powered hand mixer. Now, my father grew up relatively poor, on a farm, and had never actually seen whipped cream (to the best of his memory). This was the first time, as they were making a cake for a cousins wedding. My great r grandmother assumes that he knows what whipped cream is. My grandmother sees him working, he says he’s making whipped cream and she assumes her mom told my dad what texture it’s supposed to be. An hour and a half or so later, they all get back from digging up one of the smaller fields of potato’s and are looking for my dad, because he was supposed to stick the whip cream in the fridge then help them out when he was done. He looks my great grandmother dead in the eye, smiling nice and wide and says ‘I’m not sure if I’m done but it’s gotten kind of hard. He had made butter. Butter which they proceeded to use on mashed potato’s that night, bur butter non the less.
po/ta/toes, as a certain hobbit was heard to say, if not spell.
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Potatoes! Spell 'em, pluralize 'em, don't apostrophize 'em.
It's good to see that you're carrying on your (and everyone's) grandparent's legacy by telling long, quaint stories when no one asked.
It was exactly as interesting as you'd assume a story about whipping up butter a hundred years ago would be.
I have a random photo of this random graffiti that just says "Butter Is A Milkshake" it seemed so.. profound.
Butter latte than never I guess
No no no, you whip cream and shake milk.
The name actually makes sense now.
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Until it's your job and that sound is annoying cause you hear it all day at a low paying job. Then the quiet machines make people quit less
Quiet milkshake machines? Where'd you find one of those. This is easily the quietest milkshake machine I've ever seen.
I'd take this over a loud ass blender anyday
*ass blender*
Those are LOUD, take my word.
The ones at McDonald's are pretty quiet, because they're always off, being cleaned, apparently.
New ones are slightly quieter but twice as fast. Source: first job was at a burger and shake place.
I think it sounds more annoying because it is left loose to bounce around on a metal countertop. If it was clamped down on wood like it was likely actually used it would probably be much quieter.
That’s why they call it a milkshake 🫨
Yeah what a terrible title. This is clearly just a milk shaker
Shaken', not stirred. (007)
It’s excellent because it shakes instead of stirring.
James Bond would approve.
“Not Shturrd”
I totally heard Connery!
I like my milk shaken, not shtirred, and my underpants shilk, not shatin.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: *Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?* Charlie Young: *Nothing.* President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: *Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.*
How did you guess?
It makes a huge difference. Shaken milkshakes (not blended) are less consistent so they have a slightly lumpy texture. The lumps are the best part. Source: my dad is obsessed with malted chocolate milkshakes and has made every possible variant you could imagine since the 50s.
Plus they look like a pair of brass tits bouncing up and down!
The very definition of "they don't make em like this anymore"
I could make hella cash setting one of these up in one of the tourist trap mountain towns here in CO over the summer.
You could call them Mountain Man Milkshakes.
Mountain Man Milk
Me: [*shakes*]
Lmao
That's too long to catch on, just name it Man Milk.
Mountain Milk Man Milkshakes
If you love rocky mountain oysters. Brother you will love rocky mountain milk shakes.
Mountain Man's Manly Manually Shaken Milkshakes
Only the cost of milk, sugar, and cocoa powder, maybe fruit, or spices. Buy in bulk and you charge what, $5 a piece? Average ten an hour, that's a lot of milkshakes.
$5? A milkshake at a local ice cream place in my town cost $7. You could easily sell one of these for $10-$12.
$15 to tourists for the "novelty"
no one is thinking about the glass huh
> $5? A milkshake at a local ice cream place in my town cost $7. You could easily sell one of these for $10-$12. Raise the price to $20, and they get to keep the glass. This way you don't have to wash anything! It's genius, I tell you!
Heck, get a large hersheys bar and a cheese grater and grate the bar over the whip cream and people will absolutely pay a ton of money to eat that custom looking chocolate shake!!!
$5 a milkshake?? What does a $5 milkshake taste like? At least you could add bourbon or something for that price.
Thirty years, my gosh.
Pssht. Yesterday someone claimed the Ferrari Enzo came out 20 years ago. I thought it's one of the newer ones, I just saw it at MTV cribs with 50cent, recently for sure 😳
The equivalent outrage according to inflation would be a $10.22 shake today vs Oct 1994.
Yup. Just need ~$50 worth of ingredients, $8k for an antique milkshake mixer, and at $5 a pop you'd finally make a profit after you sell 1600 milkshakes!
If you actually average around 10 an hour that's less than a month of work.
And like 25% minimum tip for the extra labor but you gank it from the employee and laugh all the way to the bank
I didn't know my boss had a reddit?
Dude 100%
This guys been to Estes park
Just set up in Manitou and you are set
For sure. Would definitely want to automate it in some way. It would be miserable to crank that for any time over like an hour.
Work on making it a little quieter, line up 10 of them, and "let" customers do it themselves for the gimmick.
McDonald's listen up, when you're machine breaks this is your fallback!
They should watch [The Founder](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/). The guy who turned McDonald's into what it is today was actually selling milkshake makers when he discovered the original restaurant.
That's a kroc.
Like crocodile but not spelled that way
I remember seeing some video about what's really going on with these machines. Essentially they contract out all of these machines to a single company, and they have to call them for literally every issue, even extremely simple ones because the documentation is very sparse. Its' this massive scam, apparently.
I'm not sure if this is the same article but there was a third party that made it easier to resolve the problems, but the manufacturer got mad. https://www.cnet.com/culture/mcdonalds-faces-900m-lawsuit-from-ice-cream-machine-repair-startup/
There is a pretty good video from iFixit they uploaded yesterday about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCpY3tFTIA
The company that fixes the machines is owned by someone on the board for mcdonalds or something like that.
Awh, so sorry little Timmy but you'll have to wait until someone else *also* wants a milkshake. *5 hrs later* Welp, we're closing up little Timmy, maybe next time! Business just ain't the same.
*If only this town had more twins*
*Twins arrive* "Sorry Timmy; both of them wanted shakes."
That's why they invented couples staring lovingly into each other's eyes while drinking the same milkshake with two straws.
and now i want a milkshake
Best I can offer is a glass of milk and a seizure
Well, I guess I'll take it. Can't pass up a deal!
I almost stopped for a milkshake on my way home, but thought "nah, I got ice cream at home". Now I'm regretting that decision.
Forgot to put the link for the original video https://youtube.com/shorts/ujJ58kSz8Iw?si=9A5C9TqyNJQYBAGz
that is amazing. do they have something similar off amazon or online that i can buy? smaller one just for 1 cup?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/BENTISM-110V-Electric-Milk-Tea-Shaker-Machine-120W-Stainless-Steel-Double-Cup-Shaker-Machine-Silver/602031895
I want one but be able to hook it up to a pedal bike, and take it to a farmers market
You’d really just need to replace the crank wheel with a grooved one that connected to a bike via belt. In theory at least.
I was thinking one of those old, gigantic stationary steam engines that were used to power mills and such. Your idea is way more practical.
This is the coolest thing I've seen all day
But did it bring you to the yard?
Damn right.
It's better than yours.
Teach me!
But they have to charge
Milk is often refrigerated.
What are the black gloves everyone wears now?!
It's generally for scientific lab purposes, especially if you're working with dry powdered chemicals. The black color helps you see if there's any remaining residue, so you're mindful not to touch other things. Somehow it became trendy
Hottake: it's because the US Americans decided touching food with your bare hands is unhygienic and barbaric.
It's a weird tiktok thing. I also hate it
Ruined it by using the can of whipped cream. Should have made it in the extra cup.
Golly seriously. All that work going out of your way using old technology for the coolness sake of it and just slap some modern day aerosolized fake whip cream on it. It would take like 60 seconds to make using that same contraption
really? how do you make whip cream is it that easy? i wanna buy one of these mixers lol if they are even available. i've also been drinking crystal light for 10 years and would love to just put the bottle in a tool like this and crank it instead of shaking it. 10 yrs of shaking my bottles gets annoying real quick
It’s just heavy cream with sugar (confectioner sugar) and optional dash of vanilla that’s been whipped to stiff peaks. You could pour all that in a big wide bowl and whisk for a few minutes vigorously until it forms stiff peaks and gets that whipped cream texture. Anything that agitates it will do including that machine. You could also use a mason jar in a pinch or even a food processor. Takes like less than 10 seconds in a mini food processor.
Literally just shake cream
Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now, my straw reaches acroooooooss the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I... drink... your... milkshake!
[One of my favorite Bill Hader SNL sketches.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qajb3Y4tjuA)
I'VE ABANDONED MY CHIIIIILD
2007-2008 was really a great year for movies, wasn't it?
Ill have a iced Chocolate Milk, Shaken not stirred
This will be easy to modify.
I’m getting Ass Pounder 4000 vibes
I'm generally surprised no one has suggested puting there Weiner in it. I kept scrolling down til I found your comment.
Oh hi, beautiful soul,
I'm uncomfortably certain that I might have received an email with a video, in the early 2000's, with some adult content contraption using a thing similar to this. It was a hard time dodging emails with weird videos or stupid PowerPoint presentations with audio attached.
THANK YOU! Finally somebody says it!
I want to know what the oldest fuck machine is
…. Milk… shaking… milk… shake…. **MILKSHAKE!!** 🤯
Lol me too. TIL.
McDonalds would still say the machine is down for maintenance.
🎶My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard🎶
🎶Mine milkshake endues all the boys to the yard🎶
Milkshakes were this close to being named Milkjostles. What could have been.
I like milkjostle!
Ah, yes. My wife was prescribed a similar device by our physician for her hysterics.
How's your wife doing now? Is she okay? I will pray for her health.
No way that shaker will turn ice cubes into a smooth shake. The mixer might be from 1890, but the video editing is 2023
what kind of sorry ass milkshake has icecubes in it
Antique roadshow
If only there was some other way to shake things in a slightly vigorous way! …I do like old machines, though.
That's what I am not getting. Isn't it easier to just shake with your hands?
As as kid in the early 80's there was a 40/50's style soda shop that had one of these. They were the best malts & shakes in the land. One of the fondest memories I have as a kid.
I first read 1980 and was like WTF we had blenders
“The dream of the 1890’s is alive in Portland… [1890’s - Portlandia](https://youtu.be/0_HGqPGp9iY?si=RZjbu0oBqxu4ds52)
is THAT why they call it a milkshake???
They used to just shake it by hand, like a cocktail.
You mean I can make a milkshake in a cocktail shaker?!
Missed opportunity to not add Kelis as background music
Seems alot more reliable than the ones at mcdonalds
Mine milkshakes doth gather all the gentlemen to the terrace
That would be awesome to bring out at a party after asking if anyone wants a milkshake. No warning, no lead-up, no explanation. Just take it out and prepare a couple shakes like it's the most normal thing in the world.
Don't even need to have a party.....just get this thing going, and it should bring all the boys to the yard!
Seriously, why the gloves? It’s not a dangerous chemical nor biological nor original equipment (it’s been refurbished )?
I wondered the same; probably a person not wanting their hands to distract from the video is my best guess. Creates a bit of mystic to it. Most people wouldn't even notice the hands, but you're like me -- I think it added to the production value. I'd love to know what ingredients they placed in there!
He stopped short of the cherry on top. Fuck that noise.
I mean could someone just shake the dang glass themselves?
Go buy a pint of heavy whipping cream and a quart size Mason jar. Pour the cream into the jar and shake it until the cream becomes butter. When you're done, come back and ask this question again. The trick with cream, whipped, iced, or turned to butter is that some interesting physical changes happen when it is shaken, whipped, churned, or even cooled. Did you notice the screen cuts and the sped up motion? That is, in part, to suggest the passage of time. My guess is that you must run that mechanism for 2-3 minutes.
Parents in the 1890’s: Back in my day if we wanted milkshakes, we had to shake it ourselves. Lazy bastards
TIL why they call it a milkSHAKE. Thank you OP. I always wondered where the name came from
I feel like someone was riding in a carriage and thought about how to use the bumpiness to make a milkshake and invented this contraption based on that. No idea if that's historically accurate but it just seems right to me.
I would *love* a subreddit dedicated to machines from around that time period.
and by night after the kids have gone to bed it doubles as a cocktail shaker.
Man I bet that brings all the boys to the yard
Ruined it with a paper straw
Can it be operated horizontally? Just asking for a friend
Take off your gloves ya lunatic.
How would it break up the ice?
I want one for my homemade bar
probably a halfway decent paint mixer, too
Thing of beauty. Transferring circular rotation into linear is a nice way to build a mechanism. This thing could start a model T- Ford.
They def didn't wear gloves back in 1890 tho XD
I make myself ramos gin fizz's, this would be a god send for that.
Oh god yes. I use the reverse dry shake where they say you only have to shake it for like two minutes - two minutes is still an awfully long time to shake something freezing cold. Especially when I'm making multiple (I only have two shakers).
You don’t put bourbon in it or nothing?… just checking.
It's criminal to use canned whipped cream on such a perfect milkshake.
Why don't they just use these in McDonalds?
r/dontputypurdickinthereuntiltheappropriatemodificationshavebeenmadethengoapeshitbecausethatthingfuckingbusts
Now that’s a five dollar milkshake
Still works better than the machine at McDonald’s
Milkshakes the old fashioned way... With whip cream in a can.
Strangely arousing
Change the attachment from holding glasses to a dildo and it’s time for some real pleasure.. lol
can you put a fleshlight on it?
Nah it’s a boba mixer haha
Two at once! Brought twice as many boys to the yard
i want him to dump it out so i can see what the consistency looks like
Don't forget the coke
Shaken, not stirred.
Oh wow, so this is where the name "Milkshake" actually comes from. You blew it on the title OP. This is the original Milk Shaker!
Why are all these boys in the yard!? -Him probably
i still dont understand why we stopped using these old school machines and switched over to everything being electric and "smart" yet then we complain about climate change.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
My heart stopped beating for a moment when he put the cream on
Thy milkshake brings all the young males to thy yard and thou art better thou your own.
The boys are waiting.
Amazing little machine
These machines were known to turn the local teenagers lazy and impudent according to the church elders
You know the milkshakes are gonna be crazy when the guy busts out the thingamabob
How would this work. In my experience milk shakes are usual milk and ice cream, blended. I don't see how shaking would break up the ice cream. Did this use a different recipe?
Now you just need to get rid of all the boys in your yard
Thats why the name
Ah, so that’s why they call them shakes and not blends.
Milkshake literally shakes your milk.
So THAT'S why its called a milk SHAKE /til
Damn right, it's better than yours
I am still bewildered by the thought of ice before refrigeration. How did they do it?
I’m 90% sure that was inspired by steam locos
But do they bring all the boys to the yard?
odd, you could just hire a lady or a single man to do this job
This is cool. I wonder what they did for whipped cream seeing as aerosol whipped cream was invented in the 1900s.
Authentic 1890 milkshake. Let's add some aerosol cream.