Bond could have an even more perfect Martini...

Ammo08 · January 2012

Per the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092493/How-James-Bond-stir-perfect-martini--using-PENCIL.html

Lexi · January 2012

Ammo08 wrote:

Per the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092493/How-James-Bond-stir-perfect-martini--using-PENCIL.html

I'm sure the introduction to stirring a martini, was due to the fact that Gin can 'bruise' - I'm no expert in this, but when I did a stint behind a cocktail bar... I'm sure I heard that....

As Bond likes Vodka martinis, I don't think it matters... although shaking, in my opinion, will make the cocktail colder, quicker, with less opportunity for the ice to melt... and consequently water down the drink. -{

As for what is being said in this article though, is that using a metal spoon, to stir a martini, will conduct more heat, rather than a wooden stirrer. A simple solution to this, would be to store the stirrer in a cool place, and then the metal stirrer would be colder.... but that seems like a far too easy solution

Ammo08 · January 2012

Back in the day I generally drank for effect, I doubt I worried about bruising the gin. In most of the places I imbibed here in the Ozarks I was more worried about getting my head bruised.

I have had martinis shaken and stirred and frankly I couldn't tell the difference. Your idea about cooling the metal spoon makes a lot of sense. There was a bar in Memphis that used a glass rod to stir drinks.

thesecretagent · January 2012

I don't know about martinis - but try this: take a decent (ish) white wine and pour a glass. Then shake the bottle vigorously and pour. Try both and the shaken one is alive with aroma and taste. I was messing about like a cocktail bar man and my wife was convinced her second glass was a different variety. All I'd done was shake the hell out of it. Weird, but the heightened smell and taste doesn't last long.

ryan_n21 · January 2012

I went to the Dukes Hotel in London this weekend, which is apparently where the phrase 'shaken, not stirred' was coined. They do literally the best Martini there that I have ever tasted. Though I guess it has to be pretty good to live up to a claim like that!

Dukes Hotel:
http://www.tubehotels.com/Dukes-Hotel-852.html

Thunderpussy · January 2012

http://youtu.be/mvPaw9DxtTc

spot the difference

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Lexi · January 2012

Thunderpussy wrote:

http://youtu.be/mvPaw9DxtTc

spot the difference )

Good spot TP - very interesting!

Mr Beech · January 2012

Thunderpussy wrote:

http://youtu.be/mvPaw9DxtTc

spot the difference )

Cool to know it is true!

Ammo08 · January 2012

I wonder if the new gal at the VFW can make a good martini?

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Mr. DB5 · November 2012

I saw "You only live twice" the other day. I n one scene with Sean Connery and and englishman in Tokyo, he is offered a martini and is told stirred not shaken, correct? In all the other films its "shaken not stirred", thought this was very odd.

Peppermill · November 2012

Mr Beech wrote:

Thunderpussy wrote:

http://youtu.be/mvPaw9DxtTc

spot the difference )

Cool to know it is true!

But from what I can see/hear they are tasting a normal martini with gin not a vodka-martini. I always learned you should stir a martini and shake a vodka-martini. I wonder why they didn't pick up on the fact that Bond always orders a 'vodka-martini shaken not stirred'

Bond could have an even more perfect Martini...

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