Bar Essentials | Basics with Babish

Hearing some very valid criticism and discussion here - going to be posting a video this weekend with some revised/corrected techniques! Not just because I want more drinks.

I was on a cruise last week and one of the bartenders made me a martini by giving me 4oz of gin, shaking it with ice and pouring it in a glass. I loved her

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I love how you shook the martinis but not the margarita😂

Watching this cuz I lied about my many years of experience, getting hired, and learning this before work. Thanks babish

With your old fashion, I strongly recommend a luxardo marashino cherry with a tiny bit of the maraschino cherry syrup. That will enhance your old fashion ten-fold but that's just my opinion.

this mf really drinking 5oz margs

I know this is a 4 year old video but you gotta step your annotation game up dog. It looks like it takes you 5 minutes to make a Moscow Mule.

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Babish: Here's how to make a Dry Martini
Me: Ah, yes. So named because of it's addition of only Dry Vermouth
Babish: Add half an ounce of Sweet Vermouth
Me: 0_o

As a budding bar tender and martini enjoyer, they’re supposed to be stirred - not shaken. Which is why James Bond famously asks for his martini to be shaken, not stirred.

im 2 lazy 2 get a drink so im watching videos about drinks

Sweet vermouth on dirty martini?? Gross, dude.

Jesus Christ that’s a marg

Margarita with no agave nectar?!?!

Me who never had a drink in his life watching this.

If I ever see a bartender stir my margarita or shake my martini, I'm walking straight tf out 🤦🏻‍♂️

Bartender here.

I apologize if this has already been mentioned but martinis are made with dry vermouth not sweet vermouth

Why no sugar in the oldfashion

Literally thought the first drink called for roku gin 😂

Thank you

Hey babish, love your videos they are amazing but I wanted to point out something.

For a traditional Old Fashioned you start off with using sugar adding bitters then muddling it. Then add the bourbon and only then the ice, once you've done that you do the orange peel.

A Martini is Dry Vermouth, you said sweet several times...

Their is a much better way of making an old fashioned, place a BROWN sugar cube into a mixing glass and drown in 4 shots of angostura bitters, muddle and crush the wet sugar into the mixing glass, then place 4 ice cubes into the glass and stir for about 10 seconds to create a liquid layer in the bottom mixing the sugar with the bitters, take one orange peel and flaming it into the glass like babish showed you and drop it into the glass, this is so the orange infuses with the rest of the ingredients bringing out more flavor and providing a slight orange aroma.

Then pour 10 mL of bourbon into the glass and stir for about 30 seconds, place in 3-4 more cubes and 10ml of bourbon and repeat until 50mL of bourbon is in the mixing glass, this causes dilution which takes away from the sharpness of the whiskey while not compromising too much on the flavour and all this stiring mixes your bitters sugar, orange citrus oil and whiskey together throughly, once done single strain into a Rocks glass over a large ice cube, you shouldnt place one large ice cube and mix the old fashioned together with it because the size of the cibes makes them slower to melt and dilute, after that grab a fresh orange peel and flame it over the rim of the glass and drop it in again to provide aroma to the glass and a kick more flavor to the cocktail.

Note this method takes time to do and isnt recommended in a busy bar but great on quiet nights or at home.

He's using DRY Vermouth, not Sweet Vermouth. Sweet Vermouth is dark.

that martini.... i mean whatever somebody likes it shaked... but clasic martini is stired to temperature of negative 3 degrees of celsius

Just two questions, aren't you supposed to not shake a vermouth, and can you shake the margarita?

I love you Babish but stick to cooking my dude 😅

Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that he says to use sweet vermouth in a martini (which you shouldn't do anyway), and yet he's clearly using dry vermouth?

You should make snake juice from parks and rec.

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you are so wrong in that martini. its supposed to be made with dry vermouth and if its not dirty its supposed to be stirred

these videos are so high quality! woww

What bourbon are you using for the old fashioned? 🤔🤔

AMF?

that's a city boy old fashion, in Wisconsin we use muddle orange and maraschino cherries with it

You said sweet vermouth for a dry martini, i thought it was dry vermouth

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dude your portions of alchohol to mixers is way too high. Going beyond even double shots

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Brooo you dont ever shake a martini you STIR it in the shaker!!!!!