Earlier this week I learned a great tip from one of San Francisco's best bartenders, Marco Dionysus of Clock Bar. We were chatting about the proper way to build a drink in a cocktail shaker.
His advice is something of a no-brainer, but definitely worth mentioning: when it comes to making any drink, from a mojito to a martini, always place the ice in the shaker last. Adding the ice before you incorporate the other ingredients can severely dilute a drink. Within the time it takes to walk to your liquor cabinet and grab the vodka, the ice is already melting in the cocktail shaker. It makes perfect sense, and I hate to say it, but I've been sipping diluted drinks for years!
Do you always save the ice for last?
Tod's
Hence another reason why cold liquor and mixers are essential to good drinks!
1No, because I don't like to splash.
2I've always done this...guess it just always made sense to me. I mix up my drink components and then add my ice and mix that in. It definitely cuts down on the dilution problem. You do have to be a bit careful though, because you can splash pretty easily.
3Good to know.
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