What is a cocktail smoker?
Cocktail smoking is a technique for adding smokey notes to cocktails by exposing the entire cocktail, individual components, or only the drinking glass to chilled smoke. Typically, a smoker gun, wood chips, a smoking cloche, and a glass mixing bowl are required. A glass mixing bowl lets you see what’s going on.
How does a cocktail smoker work?
Moisture condenses very quickly on a cold glass. Thus, when a cold glass covers a burning heap of canella, smoke condenses on the moisture-covered sides of the glass. This allows everything in the smoke except the carbon particles and tar to dissolve in the moisture, adding to the flavor and eventual taste of the cocktail. An ice cube’s film of water attracts and binds smoke in the same way.
Smoking cocktails add flavors, aromas, and textures to cocktails. If you’ve ever spent time near a grill at a barbecue, you know how that affects the smell of your shirt. Even though the grill doesn’t heat it, the shirt absorbs the smoke’s aromas, and you begin smelling like roasted turkey. Since 90% of flavor is the aroma, increasing the aroma of drinks leads to better flavor too.
By infusing smoke into a beverage, cocktails smokers help give drinks unique flavor notes. It also helps unlock hundreds of unique cocktail recipes to enjoy by yourself or entertain your buddies with during those get-togethers. The process is also sometimes known as cold smoking.
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