I was being funny.
I know, I tried to be funny, too. 
Here’s the 36 year old Straight Dope article describing the Jell-O making process. The “plant just outside of Boston” closed down in 2014. It’s now a senior living community, I don’t know if they make Soylent flavored Jell-O there.
I tried to make champagne jello from a Martha Stewart recipe. The process was exactly the opposite of what it should have been, so it was a failure, and now I don’t trust any of Martha’s recipes. It would be fun to do different flavors from the usual jello lineup.
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. . . The process was exactly the opposite of what it should have been, so it was a failure, . . .[/quote]
Did she have you pouring cold water into boiling champagne or something??
Random question asked of nobody in particular…I’ve noticed some recipes calling for champagne when it doesn’t seem to make any sense to use champagne instead of white wine, since the carbonation won’t be preserved. Is there anything in particular about champagne that would make it more desirable to use for something like making jello, over a good quality white wine?
Knowing Martha.(I don’t) she harvested her own Gelatin from her self-sustaining farmstead in Turkey Poop, Conn.
Cut off her horses hooves with an antique horse hoofer.
She has a gelatin farm in Maine.
Yeah right. That’s what people always say about those peach Jell-O mystery sex toys.
They taste hugely different to me, from gross to excellent.
I loved this thread so wondered if Gatopescado ever found out what the little tool was. I swear I saw something like it in an Indio, California historical museum yesterday. My nephews dragged me through a century-old doctor’s office renovated with exhibits and they had some tools like this in the little exam room. They also had an adjacent blacksmith shop with tool-laden exhibits and some of them could have been similar. Naturally my 10 and 12 year old nephews were too keyed-up for me to stop and look at tools with this thread.
It is a stirrer. I posted a link to many similar (and cheap) designs earlier in the thread.
And of course the stirrer was not actually in the Jell-O package but packaged separately.
Yeah, I reckon its just a fancy stirrer. Kinda strange and out of place, but whatever.
I’ve got a half-dozen old dental instruments from the 1800’s handed down through the family. I took them from the old paper envelope they were given to me in and mounted them on a wooden plaque and have them displayed on the wall. These are some seriously gruesome looking implements. Real Horror Show. Lots of sharp pointy stuff.
