Good thing that batteries weren't included, it would be a mess inside that box after 40 years

This dude is my favorite reviewer. No inflated personally and not a corporate shill. Just an honest dude.

this is a matter of perspective. you are looking at the "modern" versions of things. I was a kid in the 70's, and have made ice cream with the old hand crank makers. and yes, this is actually quicker and easier than the recipes that my parents mixed up, so that my sister and I could take turns for an hour cranking the handle, when my dad would have to finish it, because it got way too stiff for us kids to do it. Times change, but sometimes people lose sight of exactly how easy things have been made. keep in mind, even the electric machines in the 70's took a lot more prep and work than this one. and used rock salt, and since they were counter top, not in the freezer, you actually had to hear that loud grinding motor noise the whole time. good video, and a good reminder to people that tech has really come a long way.

I remember making homade peach icecream in the 70's - it took forever - and it still was the best I've ever had.

Bailey looked so hopeful when you sat on the sofa that she was gonna get some icecream - bless her. Cracking review you're my favourite chill down, Thanks James 🙂

Shout out to Ron Popeil, in case he see this review. Thank you sir, for showing all of us we can imagine big. Even if we can't quite do it, we can keep dreaming and trying. That man never stopped his hussle. Deep respect.

Really like these looks into history!

It was 74/76, back then it WAS easier to spend those hours making it yourself than go to the grocery. Especially depending on where you lived. If not in the city or suburbia, the grocery store was far, and closed at 6. Even in the city , the store closed at 9. Remember, stuff used to close.

Back in the early 70s this would've been totally useful. Today we are used to go to the store and getting ice cream. Back then it was a special treat.

Ronco set it and forget it. Had one of those ice cream makers when I was a kid. I remember it made pretty good ice cream.

Really fun to watch! Thanks for spending your day making ice cream...so that we don't have to!

Next we need a 2020 ice cream maker!!! Cause I want to get one, and need a review first! Please and Thank you!

I’m trying to put my mindset in the late 70s when I was just a little kid. I can see this being useful compared to the very limited flavor availability in the grocery store at the time, allowing for flavors that weren’t being mass-produced at the time. Also, the only other alternative for homemade ice cream were the big hand-crank models which were a fixture of our extended family’s cookouts. So, while there are much better alternatives today, I think it was a good product for its time.

I think all the oil has evaporated out of that little motor lol. Very cool video though, set it and forget it.

Bailey says “You missed the most important test of all: letting me have some!”

We used to have an old ice cream maker when I was young. A wooden bucket with a metal bucket inside for the ice cream. It had a motor with a stirrer. You just added your ingredients and added ice and salt to the outside bucket. Turned it on and came back 45 min later and it was done. Tasted good if I remember correctly. Took about an hour for a gallon of ice cream.

Next review: the Snoopy Snow Cone machine 😀

Folks had more time to make ice cream for the entire day in the 70’s. I have to admit, that slower pace makes me nostalgic.

Man, seeing Bailey getting old makes me sad, I remember when she looked very young still

This actually looks easier than most ice cream makers i've seen in modern times. not having to get a bunch of ice and rock salt sounds so much better

Ice-cream maker instructions: Step 1: Make Ice-cream

The real problem I'd have is that my freezer is a mess and there's no way I'd have space for that 😂

A few months ago I found a factory sealed Showtime Rotisserie among my husband's things.....opened it and it works perfectly. JUST SET IT AND FORGET IT

I've got the exact "The Ice Cream machine" that my mother gave me when I moved out of home. Mine is still in its original box too.

Remember, this was before organic ice cream. You can control what goes in. The common ice cream had a lot of preservatives and chemicals. The ice cream you just made is a lot healthier than what we were eating.

Ronco brings back many commercial memories as I grew up in the 70s.

someone received that as a Christmas gift, and had a big smile on their face, and pretended to be so happy with this fabulous invention. later that night, they grumbled, and threw it in the back of their cabinet till they died, and the house was cleaned out

People had all the free time back then in the 70’s, so, to spend four or five hours to make ice cream was nothing. Nowadays I want to skip a 10 seconds commercial after just 5 seconds.

I wasn’t cringing...I WAS however craving mashed potatoes.

I love watching your videos especially when you have products from the 70's. I was born in 77. That ice cream maker is old than me. It's cool to see stuff that far back. ❤

That ice cream recipe is designed to work every time. The gelatin will keep it from freezing solid, and it reflects the "healthy eating" of the mid 70s. The actual device isn't too different than the modern ice cream makers that have you freeze the bowl first.

for 1974 this is time saving. Back then it took weeks and you had a kid dragged off by wolves midway through. Not to mention the Indian attacks and the dysentery

Yay, Bailey! Always love seeing her in a video!

Loved the Ronco showtime rotisserie we had in the house as a kid, many good dinners made with that thing

Stuff back then and onward wasn't necessary to make it easier, it was to enable you to make it yourself. It was more of a family thing to do together with the kids or something along those lines. I remember using one as a kid with the wooden bucket design, using ice and salt, and you had to hand-crank it for a long enough time we all had to take turns. It was really good (from my kid-brain memories), but we never did it again. lol

Love seeing the old Ronco products

This brings back great memories. My grand parents gave me this same ice cream maker back in '74 when I was 13. It worked. Cheers!

It's like a review using a time machine!

I remember a Ronco product where it's an inflatable pool raft hung between cars to protect the doors while opening. Oh oh also a product I need now, spray on hair.

Bailey's tail wagging away while you talk. She's reviewed you and approves.

Good thing the noise is all inside the freezer! Bailey is saying: “I like ice cream, too!” with her eyes!

We are so used to everything being ready asap We forget that things take a while when making from scratch. It was a cool review, tho! Tech has come so far!

My favorite Ronco device was the Ronco dehydrator. I made lots and lots of beef jerky with it.

When you were whipping that heavy cream with your mixer I was so afraid you were going to make butter. That’s very plausible when you mix heavy cream too fast.

From someone who makes pretty damn good homemade ice cream. Just want to say your mixture was wayyyy to damn thick. If that was my mixture I would have "Watered" it down with some milk. You usually don't get a good batch your first time though. There is a specific thickness your looking for with your custard and final product. Which a good way to figure out what that is, get some of your favorite ice cream, melt a little of it, and then investigate the thickness of that. You also might have mixed in too much air while stirring. I would stir with a wooden spoon not a mixer. The machine is what is suppose to mix the air into the ice cream. You probably don't give a shit and have enough money to get your own ice cream. Just wanted to give you some tips if you ever try again... Also after it is mixed up you want to let it freeze overnight. If you get a good batch it makes you want to try again. Especially when you mix in your own favorite flavors. My fav is Coffee Carmel with Toffee bits. Which I can't find anywhere, so I make my own. (Edit) Just wanted to add, I know this is a review of an older product and its instructions. Which you want to follow to a tee to test the product. It was just too damn hard watching that and not wanting to say something :)

Baily is pure and wholesome

I use a Breville Ice Cream maker for 2 quarts. I love it, 99 bucks for good ice cream on 25 mins. Just gotta chill their basin which is a 24 hr thing but once you get rolling it flies by. Check that one out!

Gotta love ol Ronco products. Used to watch his infomercials at like 3 am...lol The man was quite a salesman!

I love Ron Popeil inventions - some good, some bad and some just simply amusing. 😊 Great video as always, James.👍

Really love the Ronco videos, keep up the excellent work!

Omg!! I used to love staying up late as a kid and watching all Ron Popiel's (??sp) commercials. I wanted to buy everything!! Lol I never had this product though. Thanks for all your reviews.

Ronco also made a record vacuum! And I believe also an FM transmitting microphone! Also to be honest I swear to God I've seen this product somewhere on KZfaq!

There’s no way that this thing would fit in my freezer, it’s worst than my room when i was a kid. 🤭

Poor Bailey, she really wants some ice cream.

I agree with Freakin' Reviews. We could easily use the ingredients, do the prep work, cool it, run it in a good blender, freeze it and get the same thing. In fact, I'm now stealing the recipe and making my own ice cream.

I used to love to see what Ronco came out with on TV! Ron Popiel had so many ideas, most were kinda hokey, but fun! Thanks for the blast from the past!

It’s loud because it probably had a high gear reduction to have lots of torque and all the gears are just loud along with the motor. Friction can be quite loud, like car tires on the road.

Yeah. up until the mid 90's when frost free freezers became the norm, they were made of metal. If you were rich you could buy one that defrosted on its own. If not, you got a butter knife or a sturdy spatula and started picking.

I grew up in the 70's. I don't remember that ice cream maker, others ice maker were large, need rock salt(?), and also alot of time to make. I also know there wasn't the ice cream selection there is today. Plus what else did we have to do? Lol. Based on that I could see the appeal of this device. Today homemade ice cream is so easy, even easier just buy some ( from the hundreds available). Thanks for the demo

You should do more reviews of these vintage infomercial gadgets. They're rad.

This would be great for a stay at home mother that could start it in the morning and have it for dinner. But of course this is in the 60s

I laughed so hard watching this! Would of been faster raising the cow from birth.

I was raised in the 70s. Really this isn't so bad. Back then you had to send checks in the mail, wait for everything. Had to watch whatever was on the TV, no recordings, no computers, no anything. And most moms stayed at home. We even had milk delivered. So a stay-at-home mom (I was one myself) could prepare the mix, and while it chilled go about her day. Then just let it do the work mixing in the freezer, and have it ready in time for dessert. In that sense it was a time saver, and fun. The mindset wasn't insta-ice cream (nothing was instant other than pudding); the mindset was something making itself while you are busy elsewhere. Plus a well stocked pantry would have most of the ingredients. It wouldn't cost that much to make.

I really got into making home made ice cream, imo the hardest part to replicate is the texture from an industrial made one, the best homemade ice cream is fruit ice cream because you can use fresh fruit and that really makes a difference from cheap flavored ice cream

James, I enjoyed watching you make ice cream. Where were you able to find a factory sealed product from 1974? Can you share how much it cost you?

You’d still need to stir it, would you rather spend the 20 minutes stirring ice cream?

That's just how you make ice cream. It takes a while. I remember making it when I was little with a hand cranked bucket thing that was lined with ice & salt in the early 80s. The whole family had to take turns for hours. Lol.

Wow, that's old school ice cream. Used to make it that way with one of those old school hand cranks with the rock salt. A LOT of work but for the time that this came out, I can see how it would be an improvement. Love you Bailey, such a good girlie

I'm still waiting on a review of the bass o matic as seen on Saturday Night Live.

4 times the cost 50 times the effort why didn't this ever catch on?

Sad to hear Ronco is out of business. I've had the showtime rotisserie for a decade and it's been great.

Mrs. Glass’s peach ice cream. 6 hours to make - 5 minutes to eat a quart of it. TOTALLY worth every minute!!

"But wait, there's more"

Took me a second to remember what it meant by “metal base at bottom of freezer”.

I remember when I first saw this when it came out. Can't believe this came out 9 months ago, but as time flies by, this guy will always be thinking.

In my youth I had a Popeil pocket fisherman and had a lot of fun with it.

Awesome! New freaking review!

I mean, we're taking an ancient product and comparing it to today's standard. It's not exactly a fair comparison... the question is "will it work" and it did exactly what it said it did. But I digress, let's talk about the machine itself... it was made in the 70's, where the "housewife" stereotype was prevalent. With the ingredients that you used, I'm assuming that those are things that people already had in their cupboard, especially so for the people who likes home made stuff. Still, it's ice cream made from scratch, you can only rush things to an extent that modern science will allow you. Like, you can't cook a perfect steak in 30 seconds. So it's perfectly reasonable to assume that you can't have ice cream in 30 minutes from heavy cream. Cost wise, you just used evap, gelatin, water, heavy cream, vanilla. If you're buying a container full (like the vanilla) of course it'd be more expensive. But if you already have these things lying around (which again, would be typical for people who likes home made stuff), then you should only be considering the cost on what you *USED* not the whole container. By then, you'd probably be saving money making your own. Lastly, the novelty of it is also a factor. This could've been something a parent would do on the weekend with their child. They could experiment with adding fruits, candies etc.

Guy: It's really not that bad Bailey. Bailey: That's *MY* ice cream bowl.

Bailey is so sweet, you say good girl, she said where is the icecream.🐕‍🦺💗🍦☺ fun to see old inventions, thank you 🌞👍always entertaining

I was cringing when I saw you use a saucepan for the double boiler lol.. Usually, you use a glass bowl... too cute..

I used to watch the RONCO infomercials in the middle of the night when I could not sleep. I miss those, we do not see too many on TV now a days. This would make a good little series on your channel, opening and testing old as seen on tv products.

12:09 She doesn't believe you, she requires a taste test to validate your words.

Favourite part of the video by far was at 12:05 when bailey just slowly dumps himself onto the couch

That time lapse montage with your pup was my quarantine existence in a nutshell lol

My Dad adored Ron Popeil and bought nearly everything he made. He had the pocket fisherman, the famous chopper, the rhinestone stud setter, and record vacuum(seriously). I know there was more but that was a long time ago. We never got the ice cream maker though, probably because we had an old fashioned had crank ice cream freezers that worked very well. I'm surprise to hear that Popeil went bankrupt he seemed to sell tons of his gadgets.

Bailey's tail wags made my day.

The Popeil Pocket Fisherman was the best seller in 1972,I had one,my former wife threw it in the lake!

After a long day of work feels good to unwind and watch your videos

When this came out people already knew how to make ice cream, this just made it easy

yes the 20 min in the freezer is important for ice cream to produce small ice crystals. that is what makes Ice cream so creamy

Love Bailey's expression, like Dude, when are you going to cut loose with that ice cream and offer me some !! Yup, I would have been to Cold Stone and back, through bumper to bumper traffic, and finished the ice cream by that time. Love the old Ronco's !! It had its time and place. Now I do no-churn ice cream.......1 can sweetened condensed milk, 2 tsp pure vanilla extract, 2 tbl. of either rum or bourbon, 2 cups heavy cream......whip cream into soft peaks, add other ingredients, mix lightly w/hand mixer, freeze for 6 hrs.

As a kid we didn't have any of that, we used a 1lb coffee tin for the ice cream then placed that into a 3lb coffee tin that had ice and rock salt. And then roll it back and forth on the ground until it turned into ice cream, and it didn't take long. Was always a treat

You looked worried during the entire process. Very cute, like a child not wanting to go on a rollercoaster.

Back in the 70s cooking and preparing food was common entertainment. Something like this would entertain kids and keep them busy. What I wouldn’t give to go back and spend the hours it took to make a homemade apple pie with my mom and sister. That took hours too.

Ron Popeil is a legend... He was the first where most of the stuff he peddled worked... Whether it worked well, that was another matter, but it worked...

Well, to be honest: making a proper ice cream at home takes up a lot of time. Especially when you make custard based ice cream. I used to make about 5 liters a time at work but that took quite a while as you would need to heat the mixture very gently with stirring constantly.. Also yes, you want something like this. In order to get the right texture is needs to be stirred constantly while freezing, else too big ice crystals form. You could make a proper ice cream without a machine though, just make parfait. It's not scoopable but the texture of a proper parfait is out of this world.

I had the tiny fishing rod and reel that Ronco sold in the 1950's or 60's. It worked very well, and I caught several nice fish with it. When I got out of the Navy and came home I could never find it again!

Bailey is such a great dog. Forget the Ice Cream Machine, I come here for Bailey

I remember seeing the RONCO ice cream maker ads on TV and it always looked pretty sketchy. However, we got one of the 'Egg in-the-shell Scramblers' and it actually worked great.