you realize what this means?! croissants with faux wood grain pattern!

"What's up, guys. Salut it's Alex and my microwave broke so I'm building a nuclear reactor for maximum molecular breakdown..."

Alex's haircut is so perfect for those crazy invention videos.

Alex! I went on a day trip to Paris so I dropped by Utopie. It was the best croissant I've ever had in my life! Thank s so much for the recommendation :D

"I'm looking for a tiny, but powerful electrical input" You're going to attach it to a drill, aren't you? That would be typical Alex :p.

This channel has become an engineering channel

4:08 Actually used geometry in real life.... aaaaaand it didnt work. Maths

I feel like I can always learn something or a lot of things from any of your videos. Not only do I learn but they are really entertaining and funny.

The building montage was MASTERFUL! Your filmography and editing has really become fantastic Alex!

Alex, make a burger series. Which is better, a thick beef patty or a thin smash burger with maximum Maillard reaction crust?

This is just top quality content. That’s the way food blogging should be. Not just repeating recipes. But investigating them thoroughly. Inventing shit. Perfecting the technique. This is really inspiring, Alex, thank you! You got a very pleased subscriber in Russia :)

ALEX, American engineer here. To find center of circle, trace circle onto paper, fold paper two times, purpendicularly, to make a sector. Place sector onto wood circle and trace!!!

CALLED IT!!! Wooooot!

Omg he actually drives a car

Food. Woodworking. Math. There is no better combination. Totally in love.

A framed bed of several rollers mounted at an angle (~3°) would introduce the dough into gradual step reductions in thickness. This allows each step in height to be minimal force and flex on the machine. Additionally spring-loaded roller(s) with an adjustable stop means force is limited on each pass. The reductions would continue until the springs are no longer compressed and the roller is at the adjusted thickness. A strong "center rail" under the table would handle the flex better than edge tracks; this is where the force is anyway. Oh and if your wooden rollers aren't exactly centered to the axis, push it up against a sanding block while it is powered to spin. This will "self circularize" them similar to a lathe. Love your everything Alex, keep it up it always makes me smile.

Alex, I have got to say this: Your channel is just fenomenal You are very original, I just love the way you make your videos! The amazingness about this channel of yours, is that you show your hwole progression, all of your failures, what you learned from them, and how you overcome your obstacles, becouse of that, you teach everyone a lesson of never giving up, and that's very important, keep up the good work and salut! (or how we say here in portugal, adeus!)

*goes to hardware store* "hey, so I'm looking for a really thick rod. It has to be REALLY thick and smooth and pretty long. Wait, what are you laughing about?"

Cet homme a beaucoup de courage et de détermination. C’est très admirable.

i keep watching this series because i feel it helps me see how beautiful croissants through a Frenchman's eyes, it is truly astounding

I been spending all my time watching Alex crossaint video over and over

The music in this video was perfect. That machine is genius! Im always surprised with your ingenuity

i love this because when i was watching the last episode i was all like "haha bet he's gonna just build the machine" but wrote it off because it was such a large piece of equipment...never should have doubted you, alex

I used to be a confectioner (Baker specialising in cakes essentially) in England. We called the 'dough sheeter' the laminator which I think is probably closer to the French. Loads of uses for it. You'll need a flour manger and a bit of food grade plastic piping and your pastry game will also raise up!

You need to have both rollers touching the dough. You can achieve this by using a notched belt or chain attached to both roller with a third gear that is adjusted on a horizontal plain. The farther you move the gear away from the rollers, the smaller the gap between them. There needs to be tension on the rollers that want to keep the gap as large as possible, spring tension. I think a bicycle chain and sprocket would be the most efficient.

Finally been waiting a whole week for this 😍😍

Any cooking video that starts with a trip to the hardware store is my kind of Cooking video. Love you Alex

Hi Alex. Your ability to reduce complex procedures to their simple core and coming up with solutions that are both beautiful and straight forward is mindblowing. That 's what engeneering is about. When I watch a video like this one I can 't help but wish for you to be successful. It just makes me happy to see the happiness and relief you feel when you 've made your ideas work. We both know that ideas can 't be forced and sometimes you need to be focused and put in a great deal of time and mental and physical work, but you know what you 're doing. You are a sympathetic person delivering a sympathetic presentation, and you deserve to be happy about it. Believe me, eventually you will be entirely happy with your machine. The first version looks very promising. Thumbs up from a long-term subscriber.😉

For better rollers look for Chrome rollers from the print industry.

As much as I love over engineering things I might have a simpler solution. What if you just cut 2 rails to the thickness you desire the dough to be and roll your rolling pin along the top of the rails. Picture train tracks with the dough in between the tracks and the rolling pin running along with one end of the pin on each rail.Its not adjustable in height but if you need three heights you can just cut 3 sets of rails. It will take 5 minutes and cost 2 dollars for a single 2x4.

Alex, I love your attitude towards problem solving. I would not have thought that building your own laminoir would have even been worth the attempt, and yet you showed that if you are willing to take a chance, do some math, and drill some holes, it is possible. What a guy.

I feel so represented by your channel, Alex. The food, the science, the engineering, the photography, the music, the edition and even the jokes. (I also love the french parts, it gives the illusion that my french doesn't suck) I just want you to know that your work is amazing, Alex. Bye bye, salut!

Team up with this old tony and get him to machine parts for you like before. I WANNA SEE THIS COLLAB

"I need one of those" *shaking the screen* MOOD

The world needs more chef/engineers! It was wonderful watching you working to solve such a 'pressing' issue. 😜

You're the most extra person on the Internet at the moment, and I enjoy every moment

"I need to find the absolute center" > fait des calculs, sort un compas, une règle, un rapporteur, un cercle trigo, une calculatrice, un double décimètre, trace plein de traits, .... > 1 billion years later > "ouais nan en fait ça soûle. Bat les couilles on va faire ça à l'arrache" ^^ En vrai par contre c'est super cool de voir la construction de la machine même si c'est pas une recette directement (pas juste la voir apparaître comme par magie dans la vidéo qui suit). Tu assures :)

You likely should have tried to find a large rolling pin, of the kind that has the free spinning handles. Those already have a hole in the dead center of them and it wouldn't take much to add some bearings, etc., and I think you can get those about the size you need. You could have also looked for rollers from a conveyor belt.

before i finish watching this video, i'd like to thank alex a lot for putting in a lot of effort into your videos. like dude u rlly do A LOT here and it's nice to see that u're having fun along the way and it's really fun to watch. you are really not like other food channels.

I love how accessible your solutions are..

Smart, handy and can cook, what more does a woman need.

Oh my. I just bought a dough sheeter! They are amazing! Yours looks great. Can't wait to see how it develops. Like your ramen pasta roller!!

Quite a start dude. I can already see that it is going to turn out like the pasta machine did and be pretty damn good. Looking forward to seeing the end result.

i'm so glad that alex's channel is growing. these videos are insanely good.

You need this old tony again :)

I mean. There are rolling pins with those little bits on the ends to ensure that your rolled dough is evenly flat.... A bit more work, but definitely more reasonable for those of us who won't be making very large amounts of croissants on a regular basis :P and they don't require nearly so much storage space :P

For your thickness gauge, if you are using multiple holes on the arm, you should colour code the holes. For instance, the 4mm label on the main body is printed in green, so it goes in the green hole. 6mm could be red going in the red hole. Want to use the same hole for 10mm as you have for 4? Print it in green. :) Keep up the good work!

I love this video. I too have been struggling with my croissant technique (I mean machinery). Now I have hope and a starting point to make my own laminator! Alex you are a true kitchen hero.

nice but how are you going to solve the problem of the liquid content of store bought butter vs the butter the patisseries use? because that the real problem with homemade croissants

I looked at the title of the video, and IMMEDIATELY knew it was from Alex. so EXTRA

Love the processes. Seeing the wheela turn is gold

I love how he's super creative and just as good as other KZfaqrs who are primarily shop youtubers and he's just a cook

"No, I'm not fully satisfied deep inside" same

Alex, Wouldn't expansion and contraction of the wood due to moisture content along with any type of warping being present (such as having a bow or twist) affect the machines reliability and or accuracy? Or is it so insignificant that it doesn't matter?

Yup, this is what I’m here for -home made gadgets of things that already exist, for an obscure purpose. Awesome!!!

Alex makes my favorite kind of content. Cooking and creating

Idea for a new series: Mastering traditional vienna schnitzel. It looks really easy but it is very hard to master. Good luck!

Longer episodes please!!!!!!!!

Absolutely love your videos Alex! Your creativity is an inspiration. And my wife loves your cook book I bought her for Christmas.

I love how his quest to make certain foods properly drives him to engineer certain machines to accomplish the job. I'm in college studying engineering currently, and watching Alex go through his process inspires me to be better.

Feel like this could be achieved by putting two long shims on either side of the dough and then roll it out by hand with a rolling pin.

can someone explain to me the purpose of the bottom roller? if the two rollers stayed vertically aligned with each other i could understand that the bottom roller was there to provide support and a counter force between the sliding table and the top roller. but with the top roller now NOT vertically aligned with the bottom roller the thing that's countering the pressure from the top roller are the alignment bearings on the underside. if those underside bearings are enough to support the sliding table and resist the force from the top roller then why even have the bottom roller anymore?

This series keeps getting better and better. I love it.

Great job with the fabrication and problem solving!

I bet AvE would make one for you

'I want to make Croissant' 'Off to the hardware store'

Alex, I am speechless. We have so much in common. Can't wait to see you make this electric. you can try using linear guide rails to mount your play bed and a motor reversing mechanism with two limit switches. also to make it more sturdy, you may install another piece of ply as a top cover (maybe). Awesome job, keep it up.

If I had to make a croissant, my best effort would've probably been what alex made in the first attempt. That would've been perfection for me. But watching this series I know why I'm so engrossed by your videos. Where I think the story ends, that's where yours begins Alex, and that's the sign of true passion. Seriously the level of dedication for the craft you have goes so deep that you've built your own personal machines just because you weren't satisfied with what was already a pretty decent croissant or batch of pasta. I didn't even know one could do that. Cheers from Pakistan.

Why not just make a rolling jig? A platform with spacers of varying thickness, place the dough in the jig, and use one of those rollers like a rolling pin?

Salut

I am yet again amazed by you and your creativity!

Man, such a content! I watched this video and I didn't realize that it was over. Thank you! Looking forward for the next one.

Well, while they do say a bad workman blames his tools... A good workman would use the best tools they could get, right?

Why do you need the bottom roller???? Alex, for god's sake, find a place to laser cut plywood... I promise it will change your life... the precision...

look at his fingers at 4:25, we can clearly feel his passion and he's absolutely serious about what he's doing

Alex, the most down to earth genius this world has conceived.

This is super cool but where you gonna store this thing bro?? 😂

Hey Alex, please build me a custom desk. I'll pay you..

Alex, Your Back! the last good number of video's have been great. I missed them for a while. I was getting a little board with it. I love when you dig deep into a subject and figure it out. the machine great bonus! Thank You! very much. Got to go, have a This Old Tony video to watch. lol

Love your building projects, it's insperational. Watching your channel. Inspired me to build my own sous vied heating unit. It's built from an old coffee maker, a small water pump and a $7 therostate from the internet. Thank you Alex.

Alex, will you be my Dad?

I love the passion you have for cooking. It inspires you fix issues well and in a DIY fashion. You are always fun and creative :)

I am so glad that you solved your pressing problem.

I will never bake, build this, or understand how French hardware stores are so tidy but I loved watching the engineering and your characterizations Great vid

One thought I had while watching is that your tray is basically just a drawer. So you could mount drawer slides instead of using the under roller. This would eliminate a lot of wobble and give better evenness. This would also create space under the tray for a series of gears that could move the tray forward and back when driven by a pretty small motor or hand crank.

Salut Alex, I'm a mathematician, and a woodturner, so finding the middle of circles is my jam, the approach I use is a 'bisect a chord' method. It works like this -- draw any straight line from one point on the outside of the circle to the other, set your compass to be > 1/2 the length of that line and bisect it, draw a perpendicular line through that bisection -- that perpendicular is _always_ a diameter of the circle, then bisect that diameter to find the center. 3 lines and you're done. Only works on stuff that's already pretty round, for irregular stock, you just do it a couple times with different cords then eyeball the center of the triangle you draw. Much simpler than most methods, and always works well. Also, if you're looking for some good, heavy rollers, find a local wood turner -- it's super simple to turn a big piece of a hardwood round and will probably net you a heavier roller, which should make the sheeter more consistent (less likely to get pushed back up when you roll the dough under it, which is why I'd bet you're getting 4.5mm on the 4mm setting -- just some slop in the machine less the roller retract a bit).

je suis passionnée par ta capacité à trouver des solutions simples logiques et pratiques à des problèmes qui en semblent démunis

So crazy and inspiring that you tried this!

LOVING the diy food videos!! So unique concept and blends perfectly with your / you channels whole vibe!

Hi Alex, Dough Sheeter 2.0 - 6 rollers: 1 above, 5 below. left conveyor belt x 2 rollers, centre roller, right conveyor belt x 2 rollers; cloth covers for the conveyors; a plate for each conveyor to support the fabric, hold the rollers, and mount them to the central assembly; conveyors fold/rotate upwards for storage; hand crank makes everything that rotates, rotate; offset the hight adjuster so that the top roller moves vertically only and not in an arc; use the central assembly to keep the centre roller and the conveyors as close together as possible and as the pivot points for folding the conveyors; use automotive inner tubing to attach the bottom middle three rollers together so they all rotate in the same direction; leave the top roller to run freely; add a tensioner to the outermost conveyor rollers to tension the fabric and allow the fabric to also move when the crank is turned. Your dough sheeter 1.0 has much in common with several slab roller builds for clay, that I've seen - I've been looking at this for years, and WILL build one, but I think you will build yours earlier than me, so perhaps some of my ideas will help you, and in doing so, seeing your build, might also help me. And! Of course, when in doubt? Blame the tools then get better tools... :-D.

As a woman who has built her own furniture(I built a standing desk and side table) I am deeply impressed by your DIY skills on this channel sir👏👏👏❤️ just WOW ❤️

Love this series! I look forward to the next episode where I kind of expect you with your perfectionism to build a new machine from scratch with tonnes of improvements. Can't wait to see the first brown and crispy and flaky and soft and heavenly and ohgodIhavetostop

I am loving your croissant series!

Man do I ever love your ingenuity

I actually love your DIY more than your cooking and you are a great cook. Thank you for making and sharing.

So satisfying... I would watch anything with his style of video! Also the content is always great.

Amazing video, editing is so slick and music is fantastic! Love love love it!!!

This is amazing! This is why KZfaq exists!.. Keep these coming 👌🏻

Genius Video. Alex has created his own genre

This why I love this channel right there