5 Vintage Kitchen Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

5 Vintage Kitchen Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

Design and usability guru Dan Formosa returns for another episode of Well Equipped, this time turning his expert eye towards 5 vintage kitchen gadgets from the past. Watch as he tests each device, putting them through the gauntlet while commenting on what works, what doesn’t, and what he would’ve done to improve their design.

Follow Dan on Instagram at @danformosa


0:00 Introduction
0:43 Ice Pet Ice Shaver
4:51 Miracle French Fry Cutter
7:59 Bean-X
10:49 Wedge Egg Slicer
13:41 Juice-o-Mat

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50 Comments

  1. Gamer Mitroll on June 20, 2022 at 12:08 am

    i have one potato cutter in my garage it has a wall mount it works great



  2. Deborah Danhauer on June 20, 2022 at 12:08 am

    I disagree on the French Fry cutter. My Mom had one of those and it was my job as a child to make the fries. So, if a 12 year old girl could do it easily, the thing works. Maybe he had a defective one or dull blades or a different brand than we had.🐝🤗❤️



  3. ganda on June 20, 2022 at 12:09 am

    i give dan 5/5 for personality, i hope he doesn’t follow me home though lol



  4. Paul Ashe on June 20, 2022 at 12:10 am

    The pressure needed to displace volume is impossible



  5. suziequzie on June 20, 2022 at 12:10 am

    I love looking at vintage gadgets – keep ’em coming.



  6. Alex 21 on June 20, 2022 at 12:11 am

    Man this old guy has more personality than most vloggers



  7. PROSEGOLD on June 20, 2022 at 12:12 am

    Tragedy in the kitchen !!!



  8. Heather Kuhn on June 20, 2022 at 12:15 am

    I’m surprised the mandoline didn’t come with a food holder for safety. For that matter, you could have used a chainmail glove. I suspect that either one (or both) would have made cutting fries with it easier.



  9. Caleb Fitzsimmons on June 20, 2022 at 12:19 am

    The guy on 137th street been real quiet since this dropped



  10. Mac Crazy on June 20, 2022 at 12:20 am

    There are fries-cutters with a lever basis that are a lot better, where you actually push the potatoes through vertically rather than horizontally… And there are electric juicers that work better, because as they rotate you can scrape the sides as well…



  11. Mario Alberto on June 20, 2022 at 12:21 am

    Well… If a were the editor from this chapter I would cut the part of the french fries cuter… Bcuz million of people around the world uses without any troubles and those how make lots of fries per day, like small restaurants, love it.



  12. BenniH. on June 20, 2022 at 12:22 am

    I think it’s kinda strange that the "controll" test oft the eggslicer includes only two eggs sliced by the the eggslicer and like four cut by the knife. I mean who would have thought that cutting four eggs takes more time than cutting two 😂



  13. Macrina Wright on June 20, 2022 at 12:23 am

    Maybe you’re meant to parboil the potato before use?



  14. koontank on June 20, 2022 at 12:23 am

    I Love the good’oldays.



  15. Dave Otuwa on June 20, 2022 at 12:23 am

    Bloody orange juice tastes good, and it’s rare! Bloody as hell though still kosher-certified!



  16. Sabi on June 20, 2022 at 12:25 am

    I love these, but I really feel like Dan starts to overlook more and more when using it – The ice pet has a suction cup bottom and a lever you use right under the handle.. Potatoes in these cutters are supposed to be blanched and cooled before cutting, then frozen and fried for french fries, not raw..



  17. cryzz0n on June 20, 2022 at 12:26 am

    Is it just me or is Dan somehow getting better and better at leading the show??



  18. Luckz the second on June 20, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Thank you for the left handed demonstrations. I feel seen 😭❤.



  19. Sam Paul on June 20, 2022 at 12:27 am

    I use the fry cutter. But mostly for apples and jicama sticks, it works best for me if I slice off just a bit of the tip of a potato to get it started. Also. Mandolines require a blood sacrifice.



  20. Taneth on June 20, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Is that potato chipper just blunt? I never used mine on unpeeled potatoes, and it never took that much effort.
    Also, that is not even close to a full orange worth of juice. A proper citrus juicer has vertical fins that need to be rotated relative to the fruit. You were probably just pushing the juice into the pith to be soaked up like a sponge.



  21. Maree Lumme on June 20, 2022 at 12:29 am

    I’ve used a French fries cutter like that my nana owns one made fries with it a couple of times. So yeah it takes a lot of strength



  22. MrKirby365 on June 20, 2022 at 12:34 am

    I love this bro sense of humor



  23. diego g. on June 20, 2022 at 12:36 am

    Are you the engineer that puts cunkly, bulky, obese handles made of green/orange neon rubber on all kitchen products in the market? We have to talk about aesthetic as well



  24. Brenda Owens on June 20, 2022 at 12:36 am

    Take the skin off of the potato, then it will work. I still have mine after 30 years.



  25. Travis West on June 20, 2022 at 12:37 am

    90% of the redesigns he does boil down to "She needs more curves" and I fully agree.



  26. Samantha Harris on June 20, 2022 at 12:37 am

    For potato cutter you can add a gear system so that the mechanical force os taken off your arms. Then you’d still have speed with ease of use.



  27. FortAfire second account on June 20, 2022 at 12:37 am

    I swear he made the portal gun



  28. Francis Power on June 20, 2022 at 12:38 am

    I have a fries cutter like that… And never use it xD



  29. Marcus Wong on June 20, 2022 at 12:39 am

    Why are the comparison tests so inconsistent? In the juicer test, vintage juicer started with sliced oranges while the modern juicer started with whole oranges which he then had to sliced. In the egg test, only 2 eggs were used in the vintage gadget vs 4 eggs by hand. Also why was the vintage egg slicer compared to cutting with a knife instead of a modern egg slicer?



  30. Farajaraf on June 20, 2022 at 12:39 am

    There is something creepy about him oiling his hand on camera so many times every video.



  31. William Ewers on June 20, 2022 at 12:40 am

    I’m starting to notice that this guy just might be able to use a knife…



  32. Christopher Acosta on June 20, 2022 at 12:40 am

    7:11 Don’t you mean an auger? It follows as a screw but manual.



  33. jackieeeap2 on June 20, 2022 at 12:42 am

    He’s so funny xD I’ve missed this type of humor



  34. chevweez on June 20, 2022 at 12:42 am

    To answer his question, bird eggs have a pointy side so that they’ll tend to roll close to the bird on the test, not off & away from the nest like a marble would. This is why birds that nest on cliff edges have very pointed ended eggs.



  35. SpiritSlayer on June 20, 2022 at 12:46 am

    1,708,287 views, 20k likes, 907 views, 4.15M subscribers. Nice!!



  36. Rowynne Crowley on June 20, 2022 at 12:46 am

    Why would you even do that to your green beans? Just line up the ends and slice them off with your cleaver. Done.
    Also, that Bean X clearly started its life as a cigar clipper.



  37. Natty Hall Barnett on June 20, 2022 at 12:48 am

    Is no one gonna talk about how bait the oranges look



  38. Robert Guinn on June 20, 2022 at 12:48 am

    I’m George St. Geegland and this is my prank show, Too Much Tuna.



  39. kritycat on June 20, 2022 at 12:48 am

    I love these gadget reviews, but I do have to make note that you would have gotten more juice out of those oranges had you been using the juicers correctly. The orange halves should be placed on the juicer with the cut side facing up, so that the orange peel is turned inside out once juiced (which is also the reason for it being cone-shaped).



  40. Daminite on June 20, 2022 at 12:49 am

    I’ve avoided traditional mandolins since accidentally adding a slice of long pig to the onions I was cutting.



  41. CrimeVid on June 20, 2022 at 12:52 am

    peel your spuds screw the press to a table at the end, put bucket full of water under press, this is the kit that most commercial kitchens used all over the UK in my opinion your rubbishing of an almost universal kitchen marks you out as a perfect fraud. You have no idea about this at all.
    Oh and the dexterity of a slug !



  42. Blake Humbert on June 20, 2022 at 12:53 am

    Get Dan to review some of his own products that he has designed.



  43. suziequzie on June 20, 2022 at 12:53 am

    Snow cones… or frozen margaritas baby!



  44. Xx_KingMoses_xX on June 20, 2022 at 12:54 am

    The ice shaver is made for countertops.. How would that suction up not work on almost all surfaces. You’re not camping with the thing. Lol.



  45. MithStyck on June 20, 2022 at 12:55 am

    I’d think the potato cutter could use a downward rubber pad that you just tap with a rubber mallet. Quick, easy, and fun. Plus if you want to make a fry gun you just slam it



  46. Frank The Hippie on June 20, 2022 at 12:58 am

    I want sno cones



  47. Sal Mon on June 20, 2022 at 1:00 am

    I hope u let him take the Ice Pet Home



  48. fireworkstarter on June 20, 2022 at 1:02 am

    normaly the french fry cutter would be mounted on a wall and the handly would be opperated by pushing it downwards so it makes it easier when you can put your weight on the lever and move it upwards to laod another potato. there a some videos of people being realy efficient with it



  49. Isar Pirat on June 20, 2022 at 1:04 am

    Oh man, my grandmother used a potatoslicer like this (with sticky feet) for half a century. And now I’m using the same Thing and even my 8 year old can handle it. Just saying… 😉



  50. Alia on June 20, 2022 at 1:04 am

    Very egg-like