Elevate your stirred cocktails by adding this one tool: a thermometer. Joe Gitter demonstrates how temperature plays a huge role in the flavor of cocktails. Plus, he shows you the difference between shaken and stirred martinis and explains how the length of a stir affects temperature and dilution, often for the better. The result? A perfect martini that’s tailored, and temped, to your liking.
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Martinis taste like sh*t smells.
What is name of cocktail book?
Love this! Great video!!
Now I’m looking for a bar spoon / thermometer combination.
For people outside the US: that’s between -4°C and -5.5°C
Great video !
Drinking a martini now while I watch! 😉
Love the tips!
Just in time for happy hour! TGIF ATK!
Better (stronger) gin helps !
Well I guess I'm drinking martinis tonight!
Finally… I've been too embarrassed to ask. Will try this at home. Thanks!
What a great video.. Thank you for making such an informative one! I never knew most of this info… Martini's tonight! More on different drinks please!!
The best martini is the apple martini three of them and her top is coming off🤭🤭
Just received the new book…LOVE it!!!
The secret to cocktails is practice! 😂
I’m only half-joking.
Everyone’s ice, vessel, room temp, and spirits will be unique. Learn to feel the temperature on the outside of the stirring glass that gives you the flavor you prefer in the finished cocktail. You can also feel the texture change as you stir.
I use the vermouth to flavor the inside of the glass… I pour it out before adding the cocktail
Brilliant I will remember this and tell my friends
Such a great video. I love the science and the precision testing to get to the most satisfying martini. As Joe says, even the biggest cocktail nerds can learn a lot from this. Can't wait to try it at home, and to buy the new book.
Who knew Joe? Who knew? Great video. When’s the Pina Colada one?
This is such a good episode, Joe! Folks, strap in for Joe's 10 part series The Cocktail Lab. You will learn so much about the science and craft of drinks (booze or no booze!). If you love this kind of stuff, check out our brand new book Cocktails Illustrated, out now. Go Joe!
Great video!!
I feel like I’m back in chemistry class! Just more fun… and adult!
Someone should make a bar spoon with a built-in thermometer
Great can't wait to saddle up to my local watering hole and ask my underpaid bartender to "Stir, not less — but no more than — 60secs; and oh, by the way here is a thermometer to get it 24 degrees." This is still happy hour 2 for 1 yes?
love this video! you can shake my martini 🍸
"Team sampling Martini's…" How do I get that job?
Cool – I’ll be at the ATK cocktail event on Monday!!
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