Yeah, it works very well with dense bread like that, with the smart part being the stop so you can get the same thickness every time. Also, while I don't know how sharp theirs was, it looks like it could use a sharpening, cause it does need to be decently sharp to be able to cut really nice slices.
I have one and love to use it for really dark German rye that I bake myself. It's great fun and does better with that kind of bread than a machine or a knife.
As a baker from germany we actually use a similar doughnut filler every year to this very day during the season of Karneval. I had a good laugh because i used to do the same silly things like overfilling the pastrys and such. It's the little special treat only the bakers themselves are privileged to - to get to decide just how much filling they want their own doughnuts stuffed with! Thank you for including this true gem of history
in my corner of Germany its tradition to have joke fillings in a few during Karneval. Russian roullete with pastry, one will get the mustard filled one eventually. Not sure if that is done elsewhere.
@@diedampfbrasse98 I swear I've read about that "Russian roulette doughnuts" on the comment section of another Sorted video. Was it you? Are we having the same conversation again, dear fellow longtime viewer? :D
@@DizzyBusy During Carnival a bunch of bakeries in Germany have a few of those mustard filled "Berliner" in stock for people to mix with the normal ones.
the good bakeries dont even let costumers opt out of that deal ... either you gamble or you get another type of pastry ^^ ... some traditions are defended rigorously and I love it @D Z cant even remember what I had for lunch yesterday, better dont ask me what I posted on other videos ;)
While funny to have a mustard filled one, we had a great amateur baker who handed out Krapfen. So the first to bite in his Krapfen had the mustard one. Which lead to lots of laughs and everyone else heartily biting into theirs. Result: a lot of funny faces, because the Krapfen all had fun fillings. Horseradish crème, Tabasco, Dijon mustard and some sort of Asian spice paste. 😜
Everytime Ben used the guillotine my stomach turned and I looked away. Wholly F# when he was kid he must have given his mum kittens 😆 I wonder how her nerves are now.
I think it's important to note that the Raadvad slicer is primarily used for Rugbrød (rye), which in Denmark is a very seedy and dense bread. Since rugbrød is a stable that Danes ate at least once a day when the slicer was invented, it was incredibly useful for many households the same way our favourite kitchen machines are today! :)
My parents had one of the Raadvad slicers, in white enamelled metal. It's one of the few things I regret not grabbing when my brother and I had to go through the stuff in mum's flat.
I was a kid in the 60's and I remember all the fiddly little canapes my Mum would make when my parents threw a party. And there were stacked sandwich canapes on coloured bread...she had a gadget like this canape maker. I loved helping her because I got to take all the canapes that didn't turn out perfectly to my room to eat in bed. The parties always started after my bedtime, so getting to eat all the fancy canapes in bed was a real treat for me. Still have vivid memories of eating little shrimps on triangles of toast while reading "The Wizard of Oz" and "Harriet the Spy". 😊😊
I had that same canape cutting set as a new bride in the very early 70s and I remember cutting out all those heart and triangle shaped layers of coloured breads, cheese, ham, red peppers, etc. or layers of different melons, pineapple, etc and sticking all the loaded frilly-topped party toothpicks/skewers into the tops of half melons for the various Avon and Tupperwear parties that were still happening at the time. Good times lol
My mum had several types of those canape makers/shape cutters. She'd use the different shapes to cut out my school lunches into cute shapes when I was little (in the 90s). Man, this takes me back. Don't know where mum's set is now, but I think they should definitely make a comeback. So versatile and so easy to clean. I was allowed to use them unsupervised when I was like 4 y.o as there weren't any crazy sharp edges either~
I love this story!! We never had one of these when I was growing up but I remember the nostalgia I felt in a previous video when they produced the cookie gun. Agree, these need to make a comeback.
@@Karma-qt4ji i have a couple bento cutters somewhere that are remarkablely close to these. But my grandmother had a set of these exact ones to have little afternoon tea parties with her 3 neighbor ladies. I loved helping
I'm surprised Jamie didn't stand over the donut filler with his mouth open to see if he could shoot the custard in his mouth from a distance. I thought you might have an old chip cutter or the 2 different bean slicers. Today was a lot of fun. Thanks for the 🤭 With Jamie catching the Baguette like he was skewered all I could think of was Wash saying I'm a leaf on the wind watch how I ..... 😖 from Firefly Serenity
I definitely want more reviews of old and antique kitchen gadgets like this, and I think Evers and Jamie are the perfect pair for these types of videos: Jamie’s childish excitement combines perfectly with Ebber’s curiosity and knowledge.
@@master74200 that’s why I said “old and antique”. I could throw also vintage if you like. Lol. In any case, they might have been in use until 15-20 years ago, but the newest item reviewed in this video is from the 60s or 70s, I believe. That means that it’s around 50 years old.
The Raadvad slicer is excellent for cutting rye bread (I still have my grandmother's active in my kitchen) - and also for slicing celeriac, cabbage and the likes
14:44 Aww, James... hope he's doing really well Also, that Jammer was a Hoot, Jaime just Slapping that handle & making Ben jump was So Good! Please, Fellas, we'd like some more
Fun fact: my first job years and years ago (in the 90s) was at a bakery and it was my job to fill the donuts every morning. I used a device that was a lot like the one featured in this video, however, it had been modernized. The tub for the cream/jelly was on the top of the device, with the two prongs/nozzles sticking out the side. You put 2 donuts on the prongs and pushed that whole section in toward the tub, and it filled your donuts. I've never seen one as old as the one in the video, though. Super cool! Edit: Watching them fill those donuts made me cringe so hard lol The rule for round donuts was 1 pump, logs were 2. If you buy a log and see 2 holes in the sides, they filled it incorrectly, and the middle won't have any cream. If you buy a log and the holes are on the ends, there will be cream through the whole thing.
I filled donuts in the late 90's and it is so modernized now that we would put the donut on the prong which triggered a sensor (had to make sure it was all the way on to the end) and as the custard is dispensed you slowly pull the donut off so that the filling goes all the way through. Since my boss hated light filled donuts, we always did 2 pumps. Liked the work but hated getting up at 2 in the morning to make sure I made it to work by 3 so that people could have donuts by 5 am for their commute to work.
@3ch1dna07 I feel that. I was 15, saving up money for my first car. I had to be at work at 3am, but at least I got off at 12 and had the day to myself. Then school started, my boss asked me if school was more important than work, and I quit.
@@firehawk2324 my oldest son had that problem too! They asked him at a local pizza place if law enforcement school (he wants to be a forest ranger) was more important than his job. He quit too. Simple answer, yes it is.
We had the breadcutter in my home as a kid. My (danish) mom made her own ryebread that was too dense for a bread knife, so we needed the breadcutter to have normal slices of the bread. It tasted incredible and you were actually full after a slice og two😅
I don't have much experience, but I've made some sourdough breads myself. That bread gets hard quick. Add to that the milling and flour quality we got now, bread must have been really not something you can just take out of the bread box whenever. Industrialization probably killed that gadget.
They should put that in the break room with some kind of filling, so everyone could bring some pastry and fill it with something yummy for example: jelly filled croissant sounds great to me.
Raadvad is made for rye bread, it works in such a way that you gently push the bread forward to the small stop which is at the bottom, the stop can be adjusted to how thick or thin you want the slice, but you can only use square rye bread, in the old days you could get 4 kg of rye bread from the baker, for the large households
Your first gadget video years and years and years ago was my first Sorted video I watched I think, this was just as fun to watch. Love the vintage kitchen videos!
@@SortedFood It's such a great format. Combining cooking with history and culture. I think there was a saying about people from their tools, it's fascinating.
Guys, it's not for white bread. It's for ryebread. My grandmother had one. Great series btw, Love to see this vintage (and any gadget) videos. Always fun to watch
We had that breadslicer in my childhood home. Perfect for slicing big amounts of ryebread, and my mom placed it on the table when we had guests over for easter lunch, christmas lunch and that sort of events that are very common in Denmark. It was quite a centerpiece on the table :)
We use one of those doughnut fillers in work Daily, works great for a small bakery. Made me laugh seeing it described as "vintage". Good old fashioned Germany 😅👍🏻
My gran had those canapés makers! She loved making little fancy sandwiches and petit fours for afternoon tea. She wasn't English she was born in Germany but her and her mother both loved a bit of an afternoon tea with little cucumber sandwiches and little cakes or sweets. My grandfather (her husband) was Irish and also had to have some tea and a snack at tea time. Even if we were out fishing on the pontoon most times it was saltine crackers, cheddar cheese and often a tin of sardines or smoked kippers or a tiny can of potted meat(doesn't taste proper now that its not made with tripe) The memories these weird little gadgets brings back lol.
That donut filling device is still in use in German bakeries for "Krapfen" (those are the round donuts that we eat during carnival). I'll admit that it looks scary :D
That custard injector is just brilliant. Also, I'm fairly sure i remember seeing the Canapé Maker advertised on the home shopping network (or TV-Shop as it was called in Scandinavia) when I was a kid glued to the TV back in the 80s.
My goodness, guys, it's like you've never been around Danish rye bread before. The breadcutter is meant pretty much exclusively for rye bread. It's rather more dense than white bread and you don't want monstrously thick slices, hence why the breadcutter is very handy. You put the bread in, adjust the holding bit (that Ben managed to break in two minutes) depending on preferred slice thickness, and then you calmly guillotine away until you have the number of slices you want.
And sure, you can buy sliced bread in Scandinavia and most people do that these days, but if you bake your own or you buy a whole rye bread then having an easy way to slice it is actually very handy.
I learned in a backery in south germany 15 years ago and we used that doughnut jammer always to fill the doughnuts (Krapfen, Pfannkuchen, Berliner [depending where you're coming from]). We only made one or two pumps, which is enough, but seeing Jamie and Ben pump more than 3 times, made me scream "stop it, that's way to much!". :D
I laughed a lot at the Raadvad clip. It was made only for danish Rye bread, and NO not stay in the past, we are still some who use it if we got a home or Baker baked rye bread.
I’ve definitely fallen down the rabbit hole with this site. But these vintage items are some of my very favorite episodes. The donut filler is priceless. I liked the bread,meat/cheese slicer was also a lot of fun.
My parents have a Raadvad bread cutter, but now they mainly use it to cut out Christmas cookies. Make the dough, roll it up in a sausage-like form and freeze it. So it't easy to cut :)
I actually have one of those Raadvad breadslicers at home which i use for rye bread (Danish: rugbrød). Slicing the bread with a normal serrated knife would definitely be easier but not nearly as fun :)
The Raadvad yields uniform slices in two thicknesses - and even then you can adjust the thickness very much. Danish ryebread of the oldfashioned type is slightly sticky to cut, and a serrated breadknife simply doesn't cut properly. This is the solution.
Ben's expression at 11.36 says everything about the energy of this episode. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to find me some canape makers because they look like ace fun.
The classic Raadvad bread-slicer is for Danish Rugbrød (Sturdy sourdough rectangular rye-bread). It's used for Danish open-faced sandwiches which needs square slices that's like 8mm thick. Back in the day you'd buy a 1.5foot long rye bread (dark or lightly malted) and you'd take it home and slice as needed. I haven't seen one in the wild since 1986.
I've used a very similar doughnut filler to make "hillomunkki" that is jelly doughnut here in Finland around at the start of the millennia. I would indeed assume they're still in use like you said in smaller bakeries. You're only supposed to give it one squirt though instead of WAY TOO MANY like you did :P
I actually screamed when I saw the canape cutters. I used to love making little layered sandwiches as a kid using these things! I’ve actually been trying to find these for years now!!!
I am from Denmark and the bread slicer has been a staple in kitchens and fleamarkets all my life. I never thought about it being a special danish thing :)
In Denmark, it is almost exclusively known as a “rye bread cutter” - they come in electronic, and mechanical versions, too. I grew up with one of these in the 90’s
Thank you SO much for including the classy cuisine canape maker. My mother had this when i was a child and i have never been able to find out what it was. Now the mystery is solved, thank you.
"...the kind of bread we like today" This made me chuckle, because, most commonly eaten bread in Denmark to this day is a square-baked ryebread with lots of seeds in it. It is very sturdy and does not deform when you put pressure on it and it is therefore also commonly eaten in very thin slices (because otherwise it would be too sturdy to easily chew). And we still use these gadgets at home. My mom and grandmother both own one. Even in bakeries they still use them, only there they are larger and motorized (and will only operate when a lid is closed over them to avoid too many bakers loosing their fingers)
What a crazy coincidence, I was going through some old cupboards in my parent's place and found her set of Canape makers. I remember she used it for fruit and toast when I was a kid.
My parents had one of then bread slicers! BUT! Mainly (and probably only) used for rye bread, very dark bread, in danish called Rugbrød. It was kept very sharp, sat on the kitchen table in the corner (as a rice cooker does theese days) and you could give it a very thin layer of food oil before you used it for non-stick.
I had a thought for a video idea I’d love to see you guys try, similar to your pick the premium videos, how about a pick the shortcut video, where you prepare the same dish twice but with one meal using a cheffy shortcut or hack to make it easier and quicker to make, and see how much that changes the final dish
The bread cutter was primarily used for harder crust breads such as sourdough and ciabatta. Also bread usually turns hard after 3 days so it would help with cutting through the hard crust
1:45 pretty much spot on. Remember that this was when all bread was fresh bread, and had a shelf life of a day or two before becoming rock hard stale. If you wanted to slice it after that point, you *needed* the cutting power of something like this.
I grew up with raadvad bread cutters, and i have never - nor seen anyone else - cut anything but rye bread on it (maybe the odd fruit or the like). Rye bread is a staple in danish kitchens, and it can be very hard to cut with a knife. You can buy it sliced in bakeries and supermarkets though. So not for stale bread, just a type of bread that is more difficult to cut 🙂
5:25 Holy crap was that a blast from the past! I remember using those (I think the box was even the same) when I was a kid. We would take them, stamp on some bread, then cheese, then meat, etc, and finish with bread again. It made tiny tall sandwiches. It was a ton of fun as a 5 year old kid, or whatever age I was. That being said, I can't see ANY use to it other than for a kid's fun with food.
I love watching the boys play with a donut filler! The canopy thing what's even better it's incredible how is it not a charcuterie thing now it could be so popular !
"Canape" (I'm not intentionally being "that guy", but it took me a minute to figure out what had a cloth umbrella over it until I realized what you were actually saying)
The first one, the Raadvad, I use at home. I make whole rye breads ("rugbrød" in Danish) that's quite dense with quite a lot of seeds, and cut it when the Raadvad. It's amazing :)
OMG!!!! we still have one of those canapé sets somewhere in the back of a cupboard..... I LOVED it as a kid! I would roll my bread flat with a rolling pin, so I could get more layers in.... ahhhh the hours of fun. :D
OMG that canapé maker!!! I recognized it imediatly!! In the same serie you had this thing with a starshaped knive in the middle. To 'starshape' cut tomatoes and eggs. Sooooo 70's!
I can tell you this, that Raadvad bread slicer was basically razor sharp when new. I've seen a few that were new-in-box and those things are *Sharp!* And yes, they were mostly used for Rugbrød (Ryebread).
Mike’s back as a host! That, combined with Gadgets and nuggets of history makes this even more fun. Happy Wednesday to SortedFood HQ and the Community!
The big thing for the bread slicer is that even aside from more robust breads like you might find in other countries, they were also very common in the West for use with *stale* breads. You'd buy your bread for the week and a few days in it would be a lot harder, so you'd have a much easier time of slicing
I'm 43 and from Denmark - and literally 9/10 homes had that Ryebread (Rugbrød) cutter. And yes it was REALLY fun to play with...... Don't think that would happen these day! LOL
I😂 love these. The slicer seems a little unsafe. No guards. But it does work. The canape maker, fun, ... I can see having a creative fun time with the grandkids. The donut filler...awesome!
Not being Danish, but a close neighbour, and a big fan of danish cuisine, both old and new, I feel that the breadslicer would be perfect for cutting a really thin slice of danish ryebread and creating a really lovely "smørrebrød". Top it with shrimp or fried plaice and "remoulader", baked pate or roastbeef... Yum.
I have an antique cheese/coldcut slicer used in one of my grandfather's diners. It has the same optional thickness adjustment, but the cutter is stainless steel wire. It works great but kind of a pain to clean. As a single person it's more decorative/sentimental than useful. Back when I used to entertain it came in handy a few times.
Love that 2 out of 3 of these gadgets can double down as medieval torture devices 🤣 And you guys certainly had fun with them, especially the donut filler. Great episode
I cackled SO HARD during the last one! Jamie and Ben were the perfect combo for testing it out.
That is the first time i heard someone say cackled. Got a new word in my arsenal now
Best gadget they've ever tested. Ever.
@@merlinrey4439 Careful Merlin, she might be a witch.
You just got Jammed.
i really want one now! i think that's a great contraption, and seems so much easier than a pastry bag!
I like how they always give Ben grief for being stodgy, and yet he's always the first to jump in and mess around with the dangerous things.
and always the first to crack a dirty joke
Memories of the coconut meat scraper 😂😂😂
The Raadvad is almost exclusively used for "rugbrød" (dark rye bread)
I was hoping they were clued in to that and would pull out some rugbrød. That was painful to watch.
Had one at home growing up! Almost same color aswell :D
Yeah, it works very well with dense bread like that, with the smart part being the stop so you can get the same thickness every time. Also, while I don't know how sharp theirs was, it looks like it could use a sharpening, cause it does need to be decently sharp to be able to cut really nice slices.
my mom still uses the one she has for rye bread
I have one and love to use it for really dark German rye that I bake myself. It's great fun and does better with that kind of bread than a machine or a knife.
As a baker from germany we actually use a similar doughnut filler every year to this very day during the season of Karneval. I had a good laugh because i used to do the same silly things like overfilling the pastrys and such. It's the little special treat only the bakers themselves are privileged to - to get to decide just how much filling they want their own doughnuts stuffed with! Thank you for including this true gem of history
in my corner of Germany its tradition to have joke fillings in a few during Karneval. Russian roullete with pastry, one will get the mustard filled one eventually. Not sure if that is done elsewhere.
@@diedampfbrasse98 I swear I've read about that "Russian roulette doughnuts" on the comment section of another Sorted video. Was it you? Are we having the same conversation again, dear fellow longtime viewer? :D
@@DizzyBusy During Carnival a bunch of bakeries in Germany have a few of those mustard filled "Berliner" in stock for people to mix with the normal ones.
the good bakeries dont even let costumers opt out of that deal ... either you gamble or you get another type of pastry ^^ ... some traditions are defended rigorously and I love it
@D Z
cant even remember what I had for lunch yesterday, better dont ask me what I posted on other videos ;)
While funny to have a mustard filled one, we had a great amateur baker who handed out Krapfen. So the first to bite in his Krapfen had the mustard one. Which lead to lots of laughs and everyone else heartily biting into theirs. Result: a lot of funny faces, because the Krapfen all had fun fillings. Horseradish crème, Tabasco, Dijon mustard and some sort of Asian spice paste. 😜
“It’s like a guillotine.”
Did we just find the next coconut scraper? 😂
Oh no, oh no oh no...
@@SortedFood it’s only missing James yelling “Ben it’s not worth it!”
I dunno why, but I was expectting someone to ask if it was French at one point xD
Punishment games were never the same when they introduced the bread slicer.
Everytime Ben used the guillotine my stomach turned and I looked away. Wholly F# when he was kid he must have given his mum kittens 😆 I wonder how her nerves are now.
I think it's important to note that the Raadvad slicer is primarily used for Rugbrød (rye), which in Denmark is a very seedy and dense bread. Since rugbrød is a stable that Danes ate at least once a day when the slicer was invented, it was incredibly useful for many households the same way our favourite kitchen machines are today! :)
Your thumbnail is really pretty!
The first google image of Rugbrød also perfectly explained the square shape.
We had one when i was younger and it was only used for rugbrød. Then pre sliced bread came around.
My parents had one of the Raadvad slicers, in white enamelled metal.
It's one of the few things I regret not grabbing when my brother and I had to go through the stuff in mum's flat.
I was a kid in the 60's and I remember all the fiddly little canapes my Mum would make when my parents threw a party. And there were stacked sandwich canapes on coloured bread...she had a gadget like this canape maker. I loved helping her because I got to take all the canapes that didn't turn out perfectly to my room to eat in bed. The parties always started after my bedtime, so getting to eat all the fancy canapes in bed was a real treat for me. Still have vivid memories of eating little shrimps on triangles of toast while reading "The Wizard of Oz" and "Harriet the Spy". 😊😊
I had that same canape cutting set as a new bride in the very early 70s and I remember cutting out all those heart and triangle shaped layers of coloured breads, cheese, ham, red peppers, etc. or layers of different melons, pineapple, etc and sticking all the loaded frilly-topped party toothpicks/skewers into the tops of half melons for the various Avon and Tupperwear parties that were still happening at the time. Good times lol
Thats so sweet
@@akaiappears I love when a video brings back a random happy memory. 😊
i love that memory!
@@crae_s I love that your parents still use them!! I'd love to get some and have a genuine cocktail party like the ones I remember my Mum throwing.
Omg the custard filler is peak Sorted. All of Ben's dreams come at once 🤣
What did you just say?! 🤨
I cackled.
@@lukemclellan2141 Oh rest assured, I chose my words very carefully. ;)
Though in retrospect I should've been more careful to say *doughnut* filler rather than custard filler. You can't fill a custard! 🤦
@@broshmosh depends on the custard, perhaps? 😁
As Ebbers remarked, the Raadvad guillotine is mostly intended to cut more robust breads like Rugbrød (Ryebread)
Needs sharpening.
I was wondering if the blade had been sharpened at all? It's acting like a dull knife would when cutting things...
My mum had several types of those canape makers/shape cutters. She'd use the different shapes to cut out my school lunches into cute shapes when I was little (in the 90s). Man, this takes me back. Don't know where mum's set is now, but I think they should definitely make a comeback. So versatile and so easy to clean. I was allowed to use them unsupervised when I was like 4 y.o as there weren't any crazy sharp edges either~
I owned one of these and my 4 children delighted in making their own lunches with them.
Sounds like how Japanese moms use cutters to make the food in their kids lunchboxes (bentos) into characters or other scenes.
@@MildredCady Exactly like that. Mum would cut my sandwiches into teddy bears and random shapes
I love this story!! We never had one of these when I was growing up but I remember the nostalgia I felt in a previous video when they produced the cookie gun.
Agree, these need to make a comeback.
@@Karma-qt4ji i have a couple bento cutters somewhere that are remarkablely close to these. But my grandmother had a set of these exact ones to have little afternoon tea parties with her 3 neighbor ladies. I loved helping
I'm surprised Jamie didn't stand over the donut filler with his mouth open to see if he could shoot the custard in his mouth from a distance. I thought you might have an old chip cutter or the 2 different bean slicers. Today was a lot of fun. Thanks for the 🤭
With Jamie catching the Baguette like he was skewered all I could think of was Wash saying I'm a leaf on the wind watch how I ..... 😖 from Firefly Serenity
I know it might not seem like it sometimes, but I do have SOME standards you know!
@@SortedFood I was thinking the end looked a bit sharp to insert into the mouth.
@@SortedFood in other words, you’re just mad that you didn’t think of it while filming? 😂
Too soon. 🤣
@@SortedFood yet you poured beer directly into mikes mouth with the philipps draft beer machine?
I definitely want more reviews of old and antique kitchen gadgets like this, and I think Evers and Jamie are the perfect pair for these types of videos: Jamie’s childish excitement combines perfectly with Ebber’s curiosity and knowledge.
They're not even really antique. I think most if not all of these have been in some real home use until about 15-20 years ago.
@@master74200 that’s why I said “old and antique”. I could throw also vintage if you like. Lol. In any case, they might have been in use until 15-20 years ago, but the newest item reviewed in this video is from the 60s or 70s, I believe. That means that it’s around 50 years old.
The Raadvad slicer is excellent for cutting rye bread (I still have my grandmother's active in my kitchen) - and also for slicing celeriac, cabbage and the likes
Yup.
As long as it is firm, those things are excellent.
And being made of cast iron, lasts just about forever.
I was just wondering what else it would be good for, and thought of larger, dense vegetables, like butternut squash, turnips, or potatoes.
14:44 Aww, James... hope he's doing really well
Also, that Jammer was a Hoot, Jaime just Slapping that handle & making Ben jump was So Good! Please, Fellas, we'd like some more
Fun fact: my first job years and years ago (in the 90s) was at a bakery and it was my job to fill the donuts every morning. I used a device that was a lot like the one featured in this video, however, it had been modernized. The tub for the cream/jelly was on the top of the device, with the two prongs/nozzles sticking out the side. You put 2 donuts on the prongs and pushed that whole section in toward the tub, and it filled your donuts. I've never seen one as old as the one in the video, though. Super cool!
Edit: Watching them fill those donuts made me cringe so hard lol The rule for round donuts was 1 pump, logs were 2. If you buy a log and see 2 holes in the sides, they filled it incorrectly, and the middle won't have any cream. If you buy a log and the holes are on the ends, there will be cream through the whole thing.
I filled donuts in the late 90's and it is so modernized now that we would put the donut on the prong which triggered a sensor (had to make sure it was all the way on to the end) and as the custard is dispensed you slowly pull the donut off so that the filling goes all the way through. Since my boss hated light filled donuts, we always did 2 pumps. Liked the work but hated getting up at 2 in the morning to make sure I made it to work by 3 so that people could have donuts by 5 am for their commute to work.
That may be protocol but I say if a donut can withstand a second or third pump then it deserves to be stuffed with that amount of cream.
@3ch1dna07 I feel that. I was 15, saving up money for my first car. I had to be at work at 3am, but at least I got off at 12 and had the day to myself. Then school started, my boss asked me if school was more important than work, and I quit.
@@firehawk2324 my oldest son had that problem too! They asked him at a local pizza place if law enforcement school (he wants to be a forest ranger) was more important than his job. He quit too. Simple answer, yes it is.
When the log has a hole on both ends, when you bite on one end the cream shoots out the other end all over your shirt and pants!
We had the breadcutter in my home as a kid. My (danish) mom made her own ryebread that was too dense for a bread knife, so we needed the breadcutter to have normal slices of the bread. It tasted incredible and you were actually full after a slice og two😅
Sounds exactly like my childhood home in Denmark! :D - My mom would do the same, and then the slices would be thick AF :D
I don't have much experience, but I've made some sourdough breads myself. That bread gets hard quick. Add to that the milling and flour quality we got now, bread must have been really not something you can just take out of the bread box whenever. Industrialization probably killed that gadget.
The absolute chaos during testing the donut filler is just hilarious.
They should put that in the break room with some kind of filling, so everyone could bring some pastry and fill it with something yummy for example: jelly filled croissant sounds great to me.
Raadvad is made for rye bread, it works in such a way that you gently push the bread forward to the small stop which is at the bottom, the stop can be adjusted to how thick or thin you want the slice, but you can only use square rye bread, in the old days you could get 4 kg of rye bread from the baker, for the large households
Your first gadget video years and years and years ago was my first Sorted video I watched I think, this was just as fun to watch. Love the vintage kitchen videos!
Wow, I think that's still one of our most popular videos ever!!
@@SortedFood It's such a great format. Combining cooking with history and culture. I think there was a saying about people from their tools, it's fascinating.
I love that the raadvad breadslicer is in a video about vintage gadgets and we had one and used it in my childhood home. I’m from 1990 😂😂😂
Vintage gadget episodes and gadget episodes are some of my favorites.. (Right after Pass it on and that weird cookbook that isn't a cookbook)
Guys, it's not for white bread. It's for ryebread. My grandmother had one. Great series btw, Love to see this vintage (and any gadget) videos. Always fun to watch
We had that breadslicer in my childhood home. Perfect for slicing big amounts of ryebread, and my mom placed it on the table when we had guests over for easter lunch, christmas lunch and that sort of events that are very common in Denmark. It was quite a centerpiece on the table :)
Between the enthusiasm about the bread slicer and the coconut shaver it seems Ben was some form of Victorian Torturer in a previous life
We use one of those doughnut fillers in work Daily, works great for a small bakery. Made me laugh seeing it described as "vintage". Good old fashioned Germany 😅👍🏻
My gran had those canapés makers! She loved making little fancy sandwiches and petit fours for afternoon tea. She wasn't English she was born in Germany but her and her mother both loved a bit of an afternoon tea with little cucumber sandwiches and little cakes or sweets.
My grandfather (her husband) was Irish and also had to have some tea and a snack at tea time. Even if we were out fishing on the pontoon most times it was saltine crackers, cheddar cheese and often a tin of sardines or smoked kippers or a tiny can of potted meat(doesn't taste proper now that its not made with tripe)
The memories these weird little gadgets brings back lol.
That donut filling device is still in use in German bakeries for "Krapfen" (those are the round donuts that we eat during carnival). I'll admit that it looks scary :D
That custard injector is just brilliant. Also, I'm fairly sure i remember seeing the Canapé Maker advertised on the home shopping network (or TV-Shop as it was called in Scandinavia) when I was a kid glued to the TV back in the 80s.
My goodness, guys, it's like you've never been around Danish rye bread before. The breadcutter is meant pretty much exclusively for rye bread. It's rather more dense than white bread and you don't want monstrously thick slices, hence why the breadcutter is very handy. You put the bread in, adjust the holding bit (that Ben managed to break in two minutes) depending on preferred slice thickness, and then you calmly guillotine away until you have the number of slices you want.
And sure, you can buy sliced bread in Scandinavia and most people do that these days, but if you bake your own or you buy a whole rye bread then having an easy way to slice it is actually very handy.
I learned in a backery in south germany 15 years ago and we used that doughnut jammer always to fill the doughnuts (Krapfen, Pfannkuchen, Berliner [depending where you're coming from]). We only made one or two pumps, which is enough, but seeing Jamie and Ben pump more than 3 times, made me scream "stop it, that's way to much!". :D
0:20 - 0:26 ebbers' lil excited yodelling and then giving jay a mild heart attack is a great start to this video! 🤣
i thought he sounded more like a excited owl
I laughed a lot at the Raadvad clip. It was made only for danish Rye bread, and NO not stay in the past, we are still some who use it if we got a home or Baker baked rye bread.
That doughnut jammer was honestly the best birthday present a girl could ask for. Thank you Sorted! 💕
I’ve definitely fallen down the rabbit hole with this site. But these vintage items are some of my very favorite episodes. The donut filler is priceless. I liked the bread,meat/cheese slicer was also a lot of fun.
The bread slicer is made for danish Rye Bread, as Ebers mentioned.
'built to have a lifespan' is a really fantastic way to describe it.
Ebber's sudden realization of why a jelly donut has a hole was not something I was expecting coming from him lmao
Right? Like....they still only have 1 hole to this day.
My parents have a Raadvad bread cutter, but now they mainly use it to cut out Christmas cookies.
Make the dough, roll it up in a sausage-like form and freeze it. So it't easy to cut :)
I actually have one of those Raadvad breadslicers at home which i use for rye bread (Danish: rugbrød). Slicing the bread with a normal serrated knife would definitely be easier but not nearly as fun :)
This is better than a knife. Faster and much better slices.
The Raadvad yields uniform slices in two thicknesses - and even then you can adjust the thickness very much.
Danish ryebread of the oldfashioned type is slightly sticky to cut, and a serrated breadknife simply doesn't cut properly. This is the solution.
Ben's expression at 11.36 says everything about the energy of this episode. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to find me some canape makers because they look like ace fun.
😂oh my god the boys were having waaaaay too much fun with the donut filler. That was definitely a treat!
The classic Raadvad bread-slicer is for Danish Rugbrød (Sturdy sourdough rectangular rye-bread). It's used for Danish open-faced sandwiches which needs square slices that's like 8mm thick. Back in the day you'd buy a 1.5foot long rye bread (dark or lightly malted) and you'd take it home and slice as needed. I haven't seen one in the wild since 1986.
I've used a very similar doughnut filler to make "hillomunkki" that is jelly doughnut here in Finland around at the start of the millennia. I would indeed assume they're still in use like you said in smaller bakeries. You're only supposed to give it one squirt though instead of WAY TOO MANY like you did :P
I actually screamed when I saw the canape cutters. I used to love making little layered sandwiches as a kid using these things! I’ve actually been trying to find these for years now!!!
Yay! More gadgets reviews! Always love the guys' reactions!
I loved the whole thing... you can still buy that style of canapés maker on Amazon. $30.
I am from Denmark and the bread slicer has been a staple in kitchens and fleamarkets all my life. I never thought about it being a special danish thing :)
The Raadvad breadcutter was made for Danish ryebread with loads of grains and seeds.
In Denmark, it is almost exclusively known as a “rye bread cutter” - they come in electronic, and mechanical versions, too. I grew up with one of these in the 90’s
Thank you SO much for including the classy cuisine canape maker. My mother had this when i was a child and i have never been able to find out what it was. Now the mystery is solved, thank you.
I liked Jamies reaction when "Mills" was said out. I do remember my parents having those canape makers! That bought back some memories.
I laughed so much my eyes watered. Thanks guys, that was brilliant. The donut filler was the best, Jamie’s sheer delight was a joy to watch.
Got tears rolling down my face watching the donut filler! The perfect level has been reached. 😂😂
"...the kind of bread we like today"
This made me chuckle, because, most commonly eaten bread in Denmark to this day is a square-baked ryebread with lots of seeds in it. It is very sturdy and does not deform when you put pressure on it and it is therefore also commonly eaten in very thin slices (because otherwise it would be too sturdy to easily chew). And we still use these gadgets at home. My mom and grandmother both own one. Even in bakeries they still use them, only there they are larger and motorized (and will only operate when a lid is closed over them to avoid too many bakers loosing their fingers)
What a crazy coincidence, I was going through some old cupboards in my parent's place and found her set of Canape makers. I remember she used it for fruit and toast when I was a kid.
My parents had one of then bread slicers! BUT! Mainly (and probably only) used for rye bread, very dark bread, in danish called Rugbrød.
It was kept very sharp, sat on the kitchen table in the corner (as a rice cooker does theese days) and you could give it a very thin layer of food oil before you used it for non-stick.
Dane here. I know them and I've had more than one. You can't beat 'em
Jaime going after ebbers with the custard made my day! Thanks guys..... I really needed that!
The last one made me so happy. I was having a rough day and it really perked me up. Thanks, boys! 💜
That last one was the highlight of this series 😅 that was hilarious
The Donut filler is absolutely hilarious with Ebbers and Jamie 🤣🤣🤣 !!!!!!!!!!!!......... I laughed out so loud 🤣🤣🤣 !!!!!!!!!!
Please more of these and of historic cookbooks! I love this content and the fun you are having figuring it out
I had a thought for a video idea I’d love to see you guys try, similar to your pick the premium videos, how about a pick the shortcut video, where you prepare the same dish twice but with one meal using a cheffy shortcut or hack to make it easier and quicker to make, and see how much that changes the final dish
The bread cutter was primarily used for harder crust breads such as sourdough and ciabatta. Also bread usually turns hard after 3 days so it would help with cutting through the hard crust
1:45 pretty much spot on. Remember that this was when all bread was fresh bread, and had a shelf life of a day or two before becoming rock hard stale. If you wanted to slice it after that point, you *needed* the cutting power of something like this.
I grew up with raadvad bread cutters, and i have never - nor seen anyone else - cut anything but rye bread on it (maybe the odd fruit or the like). Rye bread is a staple in danish kitchens, and it can be very hard to cut with a knife. You can buy it sliced in bakeries and supermarkets though. So not for stale bread, just a type of bread that is more difficult to cut 🙂
5:25 Holy crap was that a blast from the past!
I remember using those (I think the box was even the same) when I was a kid. We would take them, stamp on some bread, then cheese, then meat, etc, and finish with bread again. It made tiny tall sandwiches.
It was a ton of fun as a 5 year old kid, or whatever age I was. That being said, I can't see ANY use to it other than for a kid's fun with food.
Would love a video featuring weird applications of the doughnut jammer, could make for some interesting results
I'm not sure they allow those kind of videos on UA-cam!
@@SortedFood 😳
A Dane here, the bread cutter from Raadvad is for cutting fuldgrain Ryebread, and works like a charm
The raadvad is meant for heavy rybread. That is a stable of Danish lunches.
The guys were having *way* too much fun with that last one! I got the weirdest looks from the dog I was laughing so hard.
I love watching the boys play with a donut filler! The canopy thing what's even better it's incredible how is it not a charcuterie thing now it could be so popular !
"Canape" (I'm not intentionally being "that guy", but it took me a minute to figure out what had a cloth umbrella over it until I realized what you were actually saying)
We for sure need a pass it on where everyone has to use one vintage gadget. :D
The donut filler is killing me. “I got three pumps in mine” 😭😭😭
Ebbers' blank stare at 11:35 was the funniest thing lmao
The first one, the Raadvad, I use at home. I make whole rye breads ("rugbrød" in Danish) that's quite dense with quite a lot of seeds, and cut it when the Raadvad. It's amazing :)
Instantly one of my favourite videos, Ben and Jamie seem to be having sooo much fun and it's above and beyond entertaining to watch!! ❤️💪😂🙌
A nice follow-up: another pass-it-on with obligated gadgets?
OMG!!!! we still have one of those canapé sets somewhere in the back of a cupboard..... I LOVED it as a kid! I would roll my bread flat with a rolling pin, so I could get more layers in.... ahhhh the hours of fun. :D
You have to do an episode with that donut filler !! A Pass It On or some competition 😂
Great idea. You could do something using all three.
OMG that canapé maker!!! I recognized it imediatly!! In the same serie you had this thing with a starshaped knive in the middle. To 'starshape' cut tomatoes and eggs. Sooooo 70's!
Please bring bloopers back :(
Something about Ben’s chaotic good energy in this one really warms my heart. Thanks for another entertaining video 😊 cheers from Australia
The doughnut inseminator was made for a good time.
I can tell you this, that Raadvad bread slicer was basically razor sharp when new.
I've seen a few that were new-in-box and those things are *Sharp!*
And yes, they were mostly used for Rugbrød (Ryebread).
Mike’s back as a host! That, combined with Gadgets and nuggets of history makes this even more fun.
Happy Wednesday to SortedFood HQ and the Community!
haha I grew up w the raadvad bread slicer- yes its for rugbroed which much denser. It also doubles as a decorative stand for ur cook books
Take away the guilottine thing from Ben, before he starts chopping Jamie into pieces ;-)
The big thing for the bread slicer is that even aside from more robust breads like you might find in other countries, they were also very common in the West for use with *stale* breads. You'd buy your bread for the week and a few days in it would be a lot harder, so you'd have a much easier time of slicing
I am from Denmark and my mom have one those bread slicers. It is primarily for ryebread which has a more dense and heavy consistency than white bread.
I'm 43 and from Denmark - and literally 9/10 homes had that Ryebread (Rugbrød) cutter. And yes it was REALLY fun to play with...... Don't think that would happen these day! LOL
Der Krapfenfüller had me laughing so damn hard. Good old German bked goods.
My mom has a Raadvad bread cutter. She only use it to make paper thin Christmas cookies - and they are glorious!
My uncle uses one of these exact devices to fill donuts every year for a street festival in Germany. I loved to do it as a child!
I😂 love these. The slicer seems a little unsafe. No guards. But it does work. The canape maker, fun, ... I can see having a creative fun time with the grandkids. The donut filler...awesome!
Not being Danish, but a close neighbour, and a big fan of danish cuisine, both old and new, I feel that the breadslicer would be perfect for cutting a really thin slice of danish ryebread and creating a really lovely "smørrebrød". Top it with shrimp or fried plaice and "remoulader", baked pate or roastbeef... Yum.
I have an antique cheese/coldcut slicer used in one of my grandfather's diners. It has the same optional thickness adjustment, but the cutter is stainless steel wire. It works great but kind of a pain to clean. As a single person it's more decorative/sentimental than useful. Back when I used to entertain it came in handy a few times.
You guys always make me happy! Kitchen Gadgets are awesome!
The Raadvad breadslicer was so nostalgic. Im Danish and remember my grandmother having one in the kitchen. And well used i'd say.
Need that bread slicer to use whenever someone comes into kitchen to make a mess while am cooking. Ben is having so much fun..😸
Love that 2 out of 3 of these gadgets can double down as medieval torture devices 🤣 And you guys certainly had fun with them, especially the donut filler. Great episode