Why Grandpa Ragusea iced his freezer instead of freezing his ice.

@shantanubayaskar

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@American5585

3 жыл бұрын

omegalul

@nananakeson

3 жыл бұрын

definetly a underrated comment

@DNguyenchester

3 жыл бұрын

Out of all the why I x my x instead of x my x, this is truly the one most deserving of a pin.

@user-gd6yl7yj9u

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahsaiiara r/whoosh

"My italian-american father was an Iceman." was a line I only thought I'd hear in a mafia documentary

@yippietheback-flippingdog1106

3 жыл бұрын

The Iceman was actually Polish.

@jjarichardson

3 жыл бұрын

Billy Batts told me to go home and get my icebox

@criticalmass527

3 жыл бұрын

I did 20 years in the can .... not a peep

@xarch7208

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjarichardson shinebox ;)

@jjarichardson

3 жыл бұрын

@@criticalmass527 He never had the makings of a varsity iceman

I'm a modern ice man! It comes in bags of chunks now rather than blocks and we use refrigerated trucks rather than horse drawn carriages with sawdust but we're still around! It's cool to see a video from a guy that has a connection to the early days of the industry that I'm a part of.

@johnbeam847

Жыл бұрын

I've been an iceman for 35 years, own lots of old ice equipment.

@rustyshackleford4958

Жыл бұрын

Thank you two for being cool dudes

@TheLegendryZelda

Жыл бұрын

@@rustyshackleford4958 lol pun

@ezequielrenovato6608

Жыл бұрын

Your job seems real chill 😎

@nicole.stanhope

Жыл бұрын

That’s a cool job

I remember seeing small ice houses in the Philippines which sold huge block ice and I always wondered how the heck do they not melt. Instead of sawdust they used rice husk for insulation. Way more easier to clean off than sawdust and the ice was safe enough to put in food and drinks too. This video woke up some memories of me and my grandpa buying block ice to use in our coolers when we go to a picnic or waterpark. We had cold drinks all day long even in the hot and humid temperatures of the Philippines. 😄

@casedistorted

Жыл бұрын

Very cool! My mom is from the Philippines but she does not know much about her family history, so it is kind of a mystery to me what really happened with our grandparents before we came to the United States.

Adam's becoming more of a social studies teacher than before and I'm loving it

@brucanthwood

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@Pigmedog

3 жыл бұрын

he's the cool social studies teacher that shows the class how to make ice cream on off days and brings in mac and cheese on test days

@trcs3079

3 жыл бұрын

Adam was a lecturer for a university before he decided to do KZread fulltime a few months ago.

@BRAINSPLATTER16

3 жыл бұрын

@@trcs3079 the more you know.. good looks👍

@beanspeaker1346

3 жыл бұрын

Wait no but I suck at social studies

Now I understand why Adam Ragusea is so cool. It's in his blood.

@josephgaviota

3 жыл бұрын

GREAT comment ;-)

@squaretorttle9400

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is pretty COOL

@blogshagify

3 жыл бұрын

Cute uncle nerd

@youareveryannoying9179

2 жыл бұрын

Ba dum tss

As a child in a small Midwest town, I remember ice deliveries to home iceboxes in the 1940's. We had an electric refrigerator but some of our neighbors did not. Small ice houses were also located at gas stations where you could get a block of ice (to make homemade ice cream). Some of the pop machines used a block of ice in water to keep the pop cold.

@jgood005

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I wonder if that's why it's still so common to see those big ice freezers full of bagged ice at gas stations as opposed to grocery stores.

@jeffschweitzer4818

Жыл бұрын

God bless you for using the correct term - "pop".

@D1G1TAL420

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffschweitzer4818 facts

@drew-horst

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffschweitzer4818 it's soda pop though

@sparky6086

Жыл бұрын

One of my Dad's first jobs in 1939, when he was 12 years old, was home delivering ice for people's iceboxes.

My grandma once mentioned how glad she was when electric fridges first started being sold and she didn't' have to deal with the constant cleaning and draining of an ice box anymore. She said the first thing she thought of when she smelled mildew was still an ice box. She seemed amazed that she ever put up with it.

@kuchikopi4631

Жыл бұрын

Well, thems were the days kiddo...

@aprilthecat

Жыл бұрын

why didn’t they make the icebox from metal, instead of wood? metal was expensive I assume

@rhuttrho88

Жыл бұрын

Thank your Granddad!

@K....D....

Жыл бұрын

Then became a new bill. So happy🎉

@draculastraphouse7863

Жыл бұрын

@@K....D.... Bills weren't out of control back then like they are today, you kids are so arrogant

I never tought that a video about refrigeration could be so heart warming

@shakohat6876

2 жыл бұрын

How ironic.

@kirkcalixte6671

2 жыл бұрын

i c what u did there XD

@ligerfelikscayanga7361

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirkcalixte6671 ice see what he did there too

@kirkcalixte6671

2 жыл бұрын

@@ligerfelikscayanga7361no'ice'

@philesq9595

2 жыл бұрын

The more you snow 🌠

At 66 years of age I'm not exactly an Internet groupie, but I must say I really do enjoy your channel.

@CraftyChicken91

3 жыл бұрын

Age is all relative, You don't need a youth group card to participate in the world.

@Becky0494

3 жыл бұрын

CraftyChicken91 that’s such a great way to put it, and so true.

@euph0rya672

3 жыл бұрын

This warms my heart

@darkhafgor

3 жыл бұрын

Join the club. We welcome you with open arms

@januzairamli4426

3 жыл бұрын

DaatBoi99 pun intended?

I’m old enough to remember iceboxes even in my hometown Los Angeles and seeing the iceman using specialized tongs to grab a block of ice from his truck, sling it over his back and carry it into various homes on our street to refill iceboxes. There were even ice machines around town where you could drop a coin and a block of ice would come sliding out, which you could take home to refill your icebox or break into pieces to cool your drinks. Everyone owned an ice pick in those days!😄

@karenryder6317

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah and they used waterproof (rubber?) aprons on their left shoulders. There were signs that you put in your window telling the ice man how many pounds to bring up so he didn't have to go to your door twice--no sign, no ice that day. Anyone know how the blocks translated into pounds and how long a block lasted?

I’m old enough to remember the ice wagon coming every week. (It was a horse drawn carriage, but so was the milk wagon that came every day and the milkman put milk bottles on our doorstep) The good old days. We had an ice box in our kitchen. The ice man would cut a block, wrap it in potato sacking, pick it up with an ice pincher, and carry it into our house. The ice fit on top of the icebox, in a lidded, insulated box with air slots on the bottom, that allowed the cold air to circulate through the icebox. As it melted the water would drip into a small tray at the bottom. (My job, as a small boy, was to empty the tray every day.) Our icebox was only used to store milk, butter and a few fresh goods. Vegetables were stored in pantry room with air vents. The tool all kids weren’t allowed to play with, but every kid wanted to use was the ice pick. Cold drink, anyone?

My dad grew up in Queens, New York City. He told me about the ice man who brought ice to his parents' apartment. There was an ice box in the kitchen, and under the ice box was a pan that collected the melt water. The ice was hauled by a horse-drawn cart. In summer, the kids would beg the ice man for chips of ice.

@grantlong6586

3 жыл бұрын

Dang just how old are you?

@kevinbyrne4538

3 жыл бұрын

@@grantlong6586 -- Dad was a little kid during the Great Depression. Icemen were delivering ice in New York City as late as the mid 1950s. Not everyone could afford an electric refrigerator.

@abcdef-kx2qt

2 жыл бұрын

DON'T FORGET THE CHOPPING MACHINE & HORSE DRAWN CART ! THEM ICE TONGS !!! BURLAP PADS ? 1955

@abcdef-kx2qt

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinbyrne4538 THERE WERE GAS OPERATED REFRIGERATOR !

@kevinbyrne4538

2 жыл бұрын

@@abcdef-kx2qt -- Yes. The ice man would carry the block of ice slung over his shoulder, cushioned by a burlap pad.

"Hey, want a cold drink?" Yeah _leaves to go get mountain ice_

@nicholasburch2122

2 жыл бұрын

ah shit i laughed

@robotbanana4261

2 жыл бұрын

This is not funny

@squidhatonaglobe4030

2 жыл бұрын

@@robotbanana4261 good for you

@kevinquinonez838

2 жыл бұрын

5 months later "I'm back sorry it took so long"

@poleythepolarbear9706

2 жыл бұрын

Surely makes you wonder who, or what first invented Mountain Dew.

It's videos like this that make Adam's channel uniquely interesting because unlike other KZread cooking shows, it's not always just "Here's how to cook this thing" every video. All of the content is still tied to cooking, or cooking related. And I learn a lot every video!

Both my great grandfathers on my dad's side were Icemen. Lived in a booming Slavic American meatpacking district. One was Polish and fell fortunate, working in the Ice industry all his life, The Slovene one retired into the Ice Business, before then being a Jungle type packing labourer.

As a player of Dungons&Dragons, I greatly appreciate this little dive into refrigeration for world building purposes. I can't wait to see the faces of my players when they are offered a box of ice as compensation for completing a quest.

@elha7982

2 жыл бұрын

Hey that's a great job opportunity for frost mages

@maxliu7576

2 жыл бұрын

watch them use it to win a bossfight

@spodefollower

2 жыл бұрын

The true neutral player is going to just try and sell it lol

@missingclover

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't wizards be able to just make ice?

@Throrface

2 жыл бұрын

@@missingclover Not everyone's a wizard.

Adam should do a video on why cheese doesn’t re-form after it melts if he hasn’t already. Edit: I’m fairly aware of how it works, but let’s be real we'd listen to Adam explain why we wear clothes in public at the drop of a hat

@Johnny.Picklez

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah how TF does queso stay queso

@Dylan_Otto

3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnny.Picklez long story short is that the proteins in the milk change forms thanks to the culture/bacteria added in, turning the liquid solid. Its like cooking an egg more or less. But yeah I'd love to see a more detailed video essay

@aragusea

3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnny.Picklez Do you mean queso dip - the liquid cheese in Mexican-American restaurants? Or do you mean queso fresco?

@ismaelkonate6981

3 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea I think he means liquid cheese

@Johnny.Picklez

3 жыл бұрын

@@aragusea queso cheese dip

My Grampa used to talk about harvesting ice when he was a boy, around 1900. All the neighborhood farmers got together and cut ice on the local ponds. My Great Grandfather had a large ice house on his farm where the neighborhood supply was stored, buried in sawdust.

As late as the 1950s, and probably beyond, we would row our boat across the lake in Maine to collect our ice blocks from the ice house, where the ice was stored semi-underground surrounded by sawdust. Once back at our cabin we would put it in the "ice box" for food storage. For many years afterwards, we referred to our refrigerator as the icebox.

I grew up on the Lower East Side in Manhattan in the 1950"s. There were still Icemen who regularly made deliveries to tenements. We would follow the truck around and steal large chips of clear ice from the back of the truck when the Iceman delivered the blocks.

@castoresnegros

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t take a whole a lot for kids to have fun in those days.right???

@captainamericaamerica8090

3 жыл бұрын

MOSTLY PEOPLE WENT TO THE ICE MAN HE WAS ON THE CORNERS. CHIPPED YOU OFF YOUR SIZE. 10, 20, 30 CENTS! YOU HAULED IT HOME

@Cacowninja

3 жыл бұрын

You thieves! But I guess it's water under the bridge or ice maybe?

@seanbrown9048

3 жыл бұрын

Your fun was certainly more healthy than mine; from the beginning of the Vietnam War through 1969, my father was stationed in Hawaii and we lived in a cute rented bungalow near Waikiki Beach, and nearly every evening the DDT truck would run through, gassing the bugs (and us kids) because all of us would run laughing or riding our bikes through the grayish white DDT fog.

@Dr.Pepper001

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrown9048 -- I'll never forget the first time the DDT truck came down our street in 1958 in Savanah, Georgia. I was 8 and I thought it was a fire breathing monster. I ran home as fast as I could.

I love how your father is still a bit pissed that his wife's grand father put his grand father out of business 😂😂

@m..w6877

3 жыл бұрын

Not his grandfather just his father. It’s adams grandfather.

I was a kid back in the 50s living in Little Italy in Baltimore. I remember people were still buying ice from Sergis Ice Co. for their iceboxes. He'd deliver it on a horse and cart. So it wasn't that long ago that people still did things the old way. Great video

Seven-11 stores were once ice houses. I'm 74. When I was a kid there was still a Southland ice house in my mom's home town. (I think my grandmother already had a "frigidaire", so we didn't need it.) The ice house also rented on-site freezers for private storage of venison and such. When the ice houses converted to convenience stores, Southland named them 7-11, indicating they were open from 7AM to 11PM.

Adam's parents are the Romeo and Juliet of food storage cooling

@kingmystery8425

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes u have my thoughts as well

@windmage0168

3 жыл бұрын

Romeo and Juliet? I assume they bith commited suicide out of a strong sense of love for each other

It would've been nice to point out that the "industrial ice machines" used ammonia as a refrigerant instead of the freon that is used today, simply because of the stringent odor it produced and its inherent danger. I remember as a teen in Houston, going down to the local ice plant and seeing giant "ice trays" that would rotate based on a timed process for freezing the water (exactly like in the home refrigerator/freezer, but on a larger scale) and the ammonia refrigerant smell was so strong that I could not stay in there long. Also, the huge blocks would be delivered to local family owned stores, where on a Sunday morning the SOUND of the "ice chipper" grinding up the blocks into oddly shaped chips to fill "double waxed paper" 10 lb. bags would wake the dead, as they got ready to supply the locals with ice to carry to Sunday outings at the nearby beaches and parks.

@siddheshgandhi7668

2 жыл бұрын

We’re back to using ammonia

@Krossfyre

2 жыл бұрын

Ammonia is still used in large scale industrial refrigeration, despite the risks.

@Tmanaz480

2 жыл бұрын

We had a big central ice plant in the town where I grew up. It was beside the railroad tracks in the warehouse district so trains could ice down their produce shipments. Even in the 60s you could still buy the old full size 5 pound blocks. They were great for the ice chest when we went camping. The regular cubes were a full two inches. I was about seven. I remember my dad explaining to me why there was a faint ammonia smell there.

When I lived in Saratoga Springs, NY in the early 70s, I was AMAZED that ice and snow which had accumulated all winter was still there in late May and early June.

@annseabolt6645

3 жыл бұрын

I visited Yellowstone in July one year and there was still some snow under trees where it stayed shady.

Thanks for sharing some family history - these stories are fascinating! My parents who were born in the early '30s has ice boxes growing up. My dad used to tell stories about how he and his friends would wait for the ice man to go into a house then they would take his awl and chisel off little pieces of ice until he came back and ran them off. My dad also called the refrigerator an ice box his whole life. And the bit about not having the door open makes sense too - and also explains even more why I'd get yelled at when I did that as a kid :)

I remember being obliged to live without a fridge for about a year in the heat of the Mediterranean. It really taught me a lot about how people prepared and consumed food in the era before mass refrigeration

@microbios8586

3 жыл бұрын

A less exotic example - living in a hotel room for an extended period of time.

@kfl611

3 жыл бұрын

People went shopping a lot more, and cooked daily, but then again, there were a lot more 'housewives' staying home to go to the market and cook daily. Old advertisements for electric refrigerators, mention how you only have to go to the market 2 or 3 times a week, and you can leave the house on the weekends, with out worrying about your food spoiling. You could even come home to food that was still fresh! And no water to worry about emptying from the 'drain pan' from the block of ice, in the ice box.

@DebatingWombat

3 жыл бұрын

@@kfl611 And subsequently, even the shopping itself was speeded up. While I do enjoy shopping at specialty shops (greengrocers, butchers etc.) once in a while, we tend to forget how much the self-service supermarket changed the purchasing process. Before self-service supermarkets, housewives would have to do their food shopping at around a handful different specialty shops (e.g. greengrocer, butcher, dairy, dry goods, possibly a fishmonger and so forth) and have to be served by a counter clerk at each of them, limiting how many customers could be served at once. Hence, such daily/frequent shopping that may take half an hour today could easily take an hour or two or even more, depending on how the shops and the home were located and whether the shops had a queue at the time of purchase.

@kfl611

3 жыл бұрын

I know where I used to live they had 2 butcher shops and a fish shop, which I thought was so quaint. But they were very expensive. It was like stepping back in time. I'm glad we don't have to rely on the ice box any more.

@ssjwes

3 жыл бұрын

It would be an everyday thing. Just think today something as small as making something to eat was a whole journey back then.

“The very stupid 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven” *laughs in director’s cut*

@aragusea

3 жыл бұрын

A bit better, but not much, imho.

@BeefBronson

3 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea fair enough

@kynan3357

3 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea Roger Ebert would like to have a word

@sonyab81

3 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea Why very stupid?

@sakukuratabinbohkekal-faki4248

3 жыл бұрын

@@sonyab81 1:39

My mom told me that when she lived on the farm as a child, her grandma had a big room like a pantry that was insulated and kept cool to preserve food. In such a tropical place it makes sense why they'd have that before having a fridge.

@internetcensure5849

Жыл бұрын

Billions still don't have a fridge, but they do without it.

I have chatted with many older folks in my area of Virginia and they have told me that when they were young it was not uncommon for people to use spring houses (or variants thereof) in rural areas to preserve food. All you needed was a cold water source and obviously it didn't rely on electricity.

@squirrelcovers6340

Жыл бұрын

My grandma used the well to keep things cool.

Dang the connection of Adam's family to the fridge history is so fascinating

The guy who invented refrigeration is a legend

@DanMan5000

3 жыл бұрын

They must be pretty cool

@daddysuburban1029

3 жыл бұрын

what is your favourite thing to finger?

@memeguy6637

3 жыл бұрын

@@daddysuburban1029 old grandmas

@poloproductions4302

3 жыл бұрын

what the hell is up with your name

@williampena197

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool person, right.

Growing up in New York City, on Bank St., we had an ice box. I still remember the iceman hauling a block of ice on his back up the stairs to our apartment and shaping it to fit in our icebox.

I love how although our technology is way different from what our ancestors had, we share the same mentality of businesses and figuring out how to get things done. I love learning about small details in history because it makes me remember that people from the past aren’t just an old name in history but they were just like we are now, perhaps only in different clothes and speaking different slang. Makes them feel more real rather than just a history lesson.

I bust out laughing when you pronounced "Yakhchāl"! What a surprise! Yakh means ice, and chāl means ditch/hole. Ice ditch. Makes sense lol

@DrRiq

3 жыл бұрын

Woah. Yakh in Pashto (a related language) means "cold". I guess that must've come from the same root

@giovanni-cx5fb

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrRiq Both are in the Iranian languages family :)

@MC_Mega-Jessup

3 жыл бұрын

Made it sound like a Native American tribe.... like Choctaw. 😄

@koroshkiller2245

3 жыл бұрын

گفت "یکچال" نمی دونم چرا نمی تونن خ بگن همش می گن ک

Adam is no longer just a home cook now, he’s a history teacher.

Thanks, I enjoyed this. My brother remembers in the 1950's when the neighborhood candy store still used blocks of ice to cool ...he remembers soda specifically. This was in a large City in NJ. Maybe commercial freezers/refrigerators were expensive.

As the grandson of an ice man.I found this quite interesting. My grandfather had an ice coal and oil business in Southern CT back in the 1930's. Also an Italian American.

Before temperature was invented, cold things would stay cold infinitely

@anonimushbosh

3 жыл бұрын

If you back far enough that’s probably true. Including your typo!

@_Myrhl

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, that was actually a glitch but everybody was doing videos on it that a new world update was quickly made and the glitch was quickly patch, but thats how people got really rich, unfortunately, nobody has been able to create the glitch in the current update, i guess that that update was the one and killed the temp glitch once and for all, there were updates that tried to patch it of course but people quickly found a way to recreate it, talking about world: the roleplay of course

@perndog383

3 жыл бұрын

if you don't test the temperature in ice, then it stays cold forever. I understand trump now.

@MarkyIsNow

3 жыл бұрын

@@_Myrhl lol very nice

@carlogustavovalenzuelazepe5774

3 жыл бұрын

people used to let women carry stuff near their chest, their cold hearts managed to kept cold almost everything for lots of time

8:37 "You look a lot like him" and your son looks a lot like _you_. This confirms my theory that Adam is from a lineage of clones with the Regusea dynasty only marrying to cover their tracks.

My grandfather and his brothers cut ice in the winter, stored in sawdust from the sawmill, and delivered to Red Deer in the summer. This, along with hauling coal in the winter was how they supplemented the farm in central Alberta.

@rainbowlack

Жыл бұрын

I live in Alberta, so hearing this piece of history is really fascinating :> thank you for sharing!

Loved this video. Used to work at an ice plant here in my country (El Salvador), it's a beautiful process. Also, I always recall the inital phrase of "Cien años de soledad" when Aureliano Buendía went to see the ice for the first time.

My dad was an Ice Man in the 1930's and I still remember the ice house in my home town that produced blocks of ice through the 1960's. It really wasn't that long ago.

@ronfox5519

Жыл бұрын

My grand dad and his brothers did the same. They cut and stacked the ice off the lake, as well as delivering it through the year. And there are a remnants of 4 different icehouses just down the road from us today. They would build a house over a small stream in a sharp valley. Im guessing the water would fill the house during the winter and freeze. They would then saw the ice right in the house.

Hello from Iceland. When uncle Sam send his guys up here it was a blessing, the unemployment went to zero and we got a free airport.

That thing about the ice box is really funny. My 88 year old grandmother would always shout at us as kids to “close the ice box!”, if we had the refrigerator open too long. Anyone know how late in time ice boxes were used regularly in Boston? Maybe she just heard it from her own parents and grandparents and it carried over. Love this video btw

My grandfather's village in East Belarus had communal ice storage. The ice would be harvested from the river in winter and stored in cellars lined with bales of straw for better insulation. The ice would be used during the rest of the year. This system was still operating in 1960, even though they had electricity since 1940s, because fridges were rare and expensive.

Your grandfather was in the X-men? Cool!

@divusgaiusjuliuscaesar4657

3 жыл бұрын

Grandma Ragusea or as we know her: Jean Gray

@kane2742

3 жыл бұрын

An original member, even!

Adam when he sees an ice cube: So here's why I freeze my lake instead of using refrigerated ice

My parents grew up in a village where electricity didn't even exist until 1981. So they didn't know the TV, refrigerator, the computer, and the internet. They used to refrigerate things by keeping them outside since it was really cold even in summer, covering them up with clean sheets to keep bugs and dust from getting into them. They made custard that way too, and they'd wait until it's solid then eat it with bear hands. They kept meat from spoiling by just hanging it around the house which makes no sense to me tbh.

@grantflippin7808

Жыл бұрын

Cool and dry conditions can pressure meat by removing moisture

My grandpa delivered Ice. Used to love to tell the story. A bit later in the 20s he drove an old Ice truck on a daily route in Wisconsin. Neat thing about the story is he started the route about 12 or 13 and delivered ice until he was 16. He said when he turned 16 he went in to town hall and asked for a drivers license. The Sheriff who was in charge of such matters told him this. Son I been watching you pull that ice truck in and outta town for years. Asked if he had enough money to pay? When my Grandpa said ya he gave him his license then and there. Always enjoyed that story! Grandpa went on to be Truck Driver all his life!

Lots of love to my brother Adam ❤️, your Persian/American brother, Babak. May your “yakh-chal” be always full of food for the rest of your lives!

I love seeing Adam's family. I feel like I can totally see where he gets it all

My Dad was born in 1913, and in the early 50's when I was about 4 or 5, I remember dad bringing a block of ice home after work once or twice a week for out "icebox"... Then we got new Coldspot fridge.. I thought it was great and would try to see if the light in the "Coldspot" fridge did go out when the door closed!!

In Sundsvall, Sweden, they use plowed snow to cool the hospital in the summer. They dump the snow down in a special pit with pipes, and when the pit is filled to the brim as a moutain. They then cover it in sawdust and that keeps the snow covered from the sun and keeps it cold for almost the entire summer.

My dad remembered when the ice man brought ice to his parents' house. The ice melted into a pan under the ice box, so the pan had to be emptied regularly.

@captainamericaamerica8090

3 жыл бұрын

MOSTLY THEY WERE OUTSIDE ON CORNERS, YOU'D GO CHOOSE THE ICE SIZE, AND CARRY IT AWAY

@Moose803

3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day nobody knew for sure if they belonged to the mailman, iceman or milkman. True story

@SallyInCT

3 жыл бұрын

Sooo, why not take that pan o water and put it out in the cold to refreeze... I guess would only work in cold/freezing climates... hmmm...

@captainamericaamerica8090

3 жыл бұрын

@@SallyInCT The Pans sit lower, only to collect water drain off. Ice has to be on top

@SallyInCT

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainamericaamerica8090 Gotcha! Thanks!! 😊😘

Wow I never realized I miss "cold endings" so much. This feels so nice. No ad read, no asking to like share subscribe... So warm and welcoming and refreshing

@famousbowl9926

3 жыл бұрын

Because he did that mid video instead? Tf lol he still bullshitin

I grew up in Maine on a lake and my grandfather used to cut ice from the lake when he was a young man. In fact, that was one of the main sources of oncome for families in that area during winter. The only other industry that could compete was the logging industry, but these two go hand and hand. The lake would freeze to 3 or 4 feet thick during the winter

Still have a pair of *ice tongs* in my Grandmother's shed from the daze when she had ice delivered to her house - 9:28 As late as the 1980s, behind most small general stores you had these *compressors* in chicken wire cages behind the store chugging way, blowing hot air as you walked by. These were for the refrigerators in the store where you kept beer, soda, etc.

Persian/Arabic/Egyptian ancient cooling systems are extremely cool in general. Chimneys that use wind currents to create a low-pressure area outside a window drawing up air from a basement that connects to underground water channels flowing all the way from cold mountain springs, and things like that.

Are we gonna get Dr. Ragusea in on the action more? His stories on We Didn’t Start the Podcast were the best. Adam do you think you’ll ever do another artist’s retrospective pod?

I still have a built-in icebox in my 1930s apartment in Los Angeles. It has one of those old-style refrigerator handles on it. It's now just another cupboard - I keep the cat food and the clean dish towels in it.

I live in West Virginia. I've heard of ice caves here, caves that produce ice, even in the summer. Folks used to visit the ice caves to gather ice that they'd use to make ice cream.

I’m surprised Adam didn’t put that scene from the Frozen movie.

@tingle8554

3 жыл бұрын

That would have been great

@technetium9653

3 жыл бұрын

Probably copyright

@jamesbaron1964

3 жыл бұрын

_split_ _the_ _ice_ _apart_ _and_ _break_ _the_ _frozen_ _heart_

@tingle8554

3 жыл бұрын

Dhava Adhi your right

@snowparody

3 жыл бұрын

I'm more glad than surprised

I'm from Scotland and we have the remains of an ice house in the village I grew up in! Great to learn more about it

I love your family's story! I am Italian American and I knew my great granarents. They gave me so many stories on their history. Lucky to have that knowledge. Greetings from Boston!

My grandfather was a milkman/iceman back in the 1940s thru the '60s n our community. I grew up in a small midwest farming town(16k people) & many houses didn't have electricity installed until the 1950s or '60s. So ice boxes were used much later into the 20th century than n cities. Door to door glass milk bottles & ice blocks(if needed) delivered daily. My parents still have a couple pairs of the giant ice tongs that he used to use to clamp on blocks & carry the blocks from his diary truck to the homes. They've got a pair of ice tongs on the wall like Adam's parents & some empty glass milk bottles inside the metal carrier for the bottles as decoration as well

My great grandfather (born 1896, lived in North Dakota) would talk about filling the icehouse with ice from the pond in the winter and digging coal from the hillside in the summer to heat and cook through the winter.

I've actually seen some of the first "ice boxes" that was converted to "refrigerators" by Westinghouse & they did not look at all shabby like you might imagine.

I have a new appreciation for our refrigerator and ice maker.What a great time to be alive...

Seeing the thumbnail reminds me of when I was 9 years old in 1954 and we often visited my grandparents. They had an "icebox" and had a huge block of ice delivered to their house about every 4 days.

I’m loving the science/history videos Adam keep em coming.

Adam, I must say I love how you say iran properly. I love the recent content, definitely more people need to see it!

When I was small I’m 70 now my dad had a delivery truck to deliver meat to stores . Well that truck had compartments for blocks of ice . Well used to go to the ice house in Phillips burg n j to buy man made ice picked it up with ice tongs and it was cut with just an ice pick . It amazed me how the workers cut those big blocks the size of a coffin to manageable blocks and they were pretty square when done

in some movies of the mid 1800's they would show kids coming to school with bottles of milk and putting them in a running stream near for late use at lunch time. the running water kept the milk cool.

wow, this is sooo amazing. We are so lucky to have been born in the present times, Can you imagine how it must have been for a middle orlower class families to live their lives without all of the things we take for granted today. This is fascinating

@dancingtrout6719

Жыл бұрын

you hit it right on the head my dad was born in 22 our generations are the first too have enjoyed supreme inventions that made life a ease.. indoor plumbing electricity,, refridgeration, oil gas heat . the model t car.,air planes jets, light bulbs ,music recording ..television, telephones and penicillin you name it ..

I find family history fascinating. It’s amazing to me how similar we are to family members we have never met, and possibly only seen in pictures. In some cases, we are their spitting image and work in similar industries.

@chickenfishhybrid44

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I love hearing about other peoples family history. I like hearing the stories of immigrants to the US and why they decided to make the trip, what they did for work etc.

My great-grandmother still had an icebox in her kitchen when I was a little kid, and my grandfather had a thriving business selling home furnaces and refrigerators that could run on LP gas. He also sold the gas, so people who were off the grid could get refrigerators and heat their homes. He made a nice living that way. BTW, he also hacked his delivery trucks to run on LP gas. Lol.

I remember the iceman visiting my grandparents house. He was a giant of a man and he had a leather cape over one shoulder. He would hold the block of ice on that leather cape with ice tongs and then with one sweeping motion he would put the block of ice in the “icebox” in the kitchen. The iceman was a giant.

I remember history lessons like this 50 odd years ago.They were so interesting that I never forgot them. I hope it is still taught like this today! Thanks Adam.

I just found this youtube channel and I'm instantly hooked, mostly because every time he introduces a sponsor, it's so perfectly incorporated that I can't help but squeal like Lucille when she finds out it's really Gene Parmesan. Also, that Frederick guy totally proves Food Network's Geoffrey Zakarian is a time traveler.

@remytherat2929

Жыл бұрын

Omg that’s a great way to describe it lmaooo

That looks like a scraper on your wall Adam, I used to work at Cape Pond Ice Co. to move the blocks the tool looks like a spear with a hook. you can drag them with the hook or push them like shuffleboard with the tip. Great vid paisan!

@ericleger8158

3 жыл бұрын

Like a " push-me-pull-you " tool !

Definitely one of my favorite episodes -- great how you integrated your family history!

i could watch a two part three hour documentary on ice...not sure why this fascinates me so much

@Legapur9

3 жыл бұрын

I know your comment is 8 months old but I know of a documentary that's pretty much exactly this. it's an oldish 2 hour PBS documentary kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4CCxpqRfZi-idY.html

@drigodamus

3 жыл бұрын

@@Legapur9 Google Activated!!

our refrigerator's been broken for almost a month now (waiting on parts/replacement warranty) so this video really hits me where I live.

@EUC-lid

3 жыл бұрын

Just call up the Ice Man. He'll be your wingman, anytime.

I had a grandmother on my mom's side who lived in western NY State and had an icebox refrigerator until the early 1970's. The house lost its electricity in a 1936 flood and was never reinstated as were poor. I remember it well when visiting her, the ice man coming around, you left a sign on a post of your porch to tell them you needed ice.

My folks had a cabin at Clear Lake, Ca. I remember the icebox, it was a "Brohn", a fine oak case and the interior was enameled steel. We would get our ice blocks from the Lakeshore Ice Co. In the early 50's, the Brohn gave way to a 1926 G. E. "Monitor top"! That fridge ran like a sewing machine...so quite and efficient. We sold the property in 1960...who knows, perhaps the G.E. is still a cool machine! A friend of mine has one he uses as a beer and soft drink cooler...nearing a century old!

"The desert actually gets really cold at night" Me, in Arizona where its 80F at night: wtf

@jjjackson5183

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it depends on the desert. Ridgecrest CA gets cold at night except in summer.

@michaelward944

3 жыл бұрын

I've lived in Yuma but also lived at a higher elevation in the Chihuahuan desert close to the continental divide in New Mexico. Yes it can get very cold there

@josephbeckmann8106

3 жыл бұрын

If you live in the Phoenix metro you're also dealing with the unnatural heat island effect of having 6 million people crammed into a relatively small areas filled with nothing but glass, concrete, brick and so on that absorb heat all day and then radiate heat all night sometimes never allowing the temperature to drop below even 90° on those 115° to 120° days.

@brazenbull636

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephbeckmann8106 this. Asphalt radiating..

@seanchannie5822

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephbeckmann8106 I lived in Phoenix on base housing for quite some time and every winter there would be frost on the ground especially near the concrete.dont know if it's cause things are getting warmer or what but it was there when I was.

Hey Adam I just want to say that when I first started watching your channel it was because of your no nonsense methodology and approach to cooking but now these Monday research videos are the reason why I truly appreciate you.

When I was 4 and 5 years old, I remember the iceman delivering ice to some houses on the street where I lived. By then most people had electric refrigerators, but a few still had iceboxes.

I am 63 and I can remember having an ice chest and a kerosene fridge when I was a kid..., in fact our kerosene fridge had a water dispenser in the front of the door.

My dad (I'm younger than you) had an icebox as a kid (and O.T. always called our refrigerator "ice box) ... anyway as a kid he said the ice man came twice a week, and with a big "pliers" thing put another block in the ice box. The interior temperature was only in the 50ºs, not the high-30ºs/low 40ºs of today. Nonetheless, food would last for at least twice as long compared to w/o the icebox. The dog drank most of the melted ice from a bowl below the refrigerator, and yes, the mold had to be cleared from the drain tube regularly.

Okay... This is heavily focused on keeping stuff cold with Ice. Want to hear about another thing that was used to preserve food in cold enviroment? CELLAR. Much more accessible, working good enough and not needing anything really. For example around the time people in NY you mentioned using Iceboxes people in central and eastern Europe were still using cellars. And in wine making and beer making? They often used cellars dug into a solid rock. If you ever were in a cave on a hot day you know the difference in temperature inside and outside can be quite extreme (as to being able to go in shorts and t-shirt outside and having to take on a hoodie and pants inside not to freeze).

@chickenfishhybrid44

2 жыл бұрын

People used cellars in the US too.. some still do. Alot of the US is much warmer that alot of Europe too.

@martinbudinsky8912

2 жыл бұрын

@@chickenfishhybrid44 The cellars in US however are usually not meant for cooling things (notice I specificaly focused on the ones dug into rock because those were meant for cooling stuff especialy when it comes to wine, they are also noticably deeper) but as an aditional storage or protection from ground radiation (radon). So you are right. You will find houses with cellars in the US but their intended use differes (I am not talking about those). And you are also right about the climate being hotter in certain parts of the US then again I adressed this with my comparison of the cellar to the cave (and this applies even to hotter climates). To further prove this there are whole underground cities in Turkey for example where you can visit and try this. The explanation is quite simple - heat from the sun doesnt reach there and rock can be a great heat isolant. Its the same reason why in desert it can be incredibly hot during the day and incredibly cold during the night. So hotter climate doesnt really matter in this case.

@chickenfishhybrid44

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinbudinsky8912 I'm talking about "root cellars" as they're often referred to used to keep produce you often grew yourself cool. I brought up the climate in the US being hotter because your specifically said Central and Eastern Europe. I know that others places used cellars as well, I understand that cellars under a home in the US aren't necessarily the same as what you mean. However obviously the concept is

@riograndedosulball248

2 жыл бұрын

My grandparents did use their cellar to keep stuff cold. It wasn't carved in stone or anything, in reality it was even above the ground, but had really thick walls that kept the temperature relatively stable. My other grandparents however did not have a cellar. So, grandpa dug a hole alongside a stream in the forest, among a bunch of rocks, and bang. Refrigerator thingy that cooled beer and could make cold deserts. In the forest.

@isalovi1771

2 жыл бұрын

In Northern Europe you can still come across root cellars on the countryside. My parents built their house in the early 2000's and we have separate root cellar for storing potatoes, carrots, ligonberry jam and other sorts of jam and juices and it's always in use :D

My father, rest his soul, would talk about the "icebox" that my grandparents had before they got a refrigerator. And how the iceman would load a big block of ice into it every few days. And how coal was delivered through a chute to the basement before they got a boiler that heated both the house and water. That was in Corona Queens N.Y. during the '30s. It was an old but solidly built house.

When I was a kid, my friends and I would follow the Ice Man going through the alleys with his horse and buggy and would snatch pieces of ice from him when he would leave the wagon, you would be surprised how many people had ice boxes in the 40's,we were lucky. We had a refrigerator.

What I remember vividly is in the early 60's we had a hurricane that killed power for almost 2 weeks. Only 1 location in Baton Rouge had power and ice and we would make trips every day or so to buy 20 pound blocks of ice.

"You gotta start selling this stuff for more than a dollar a bag. We lost four more men on this expedition." "If you know of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it." --Apu

@leahvogel5527

2 жыл бұрын

What haven't The Simpson's done, lol

@owenmcnamara9571

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best comments ever

I really enjoy the personal connection weaved into the narrative. Greetings from Rome, Ga

There's a Three Stooges episode where they're delivering ice and I personally think it's one of their very bestest, it's hysterical. Thank you for the very informative and entertaining video.

@carlodrudd8391

Жыл бұрын

As a lifelong stooge fan, was looking through the comments to see if that was gonna be mentioned. When was that short made? Late 30's , or perhaps early 40's?

@yoursoulisforever

Жыл бұрын

@@carlodrudd8391 I don't know when it was made. I think I have seen it twice, both times long ago. I remember laughing and laughing!