Reader's Digest Everyday Survival Hacks by Reader's Digest

Author:Reader's Digest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Published: 2020-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

19 Always hold a wine glass by the stem when sampling. This avoids warming the wine and keeps ugly fingerprints off the glass. Make small concentric circles with your glass to gently swoosh the wine around. This releases the wine’s bouquet, which you can give a little sniff if you’d like.

20 Pace yourself while indulging. You’ve probably heard that mixing different types of alcoholic beverages makes you sicker than sticking with one. There’s a small amount of science behind this; however, the most important factor in whether or not you get a hangover is the total amount of alcohol you consume and how fast, not what mixtures you drink.

21 Make your martini stirred, not shaken. Shaking a martini adds water and makes the drink weak. Martini connoisseurs will also tell you that a real martini is made with gin, not vodka. So begin with a bottle of gin, a bottle of dry vermouth, a pint glass, and lots of ice.

22 Make sure you chill your martini sufficiently. A memorable martini must be sufficiently chilled. Begin by filling the pint glass with ice. Next, pour in two and a half ounces of gin, followed by one half ounce of dry vermouth. Now stir. Stirring dilutes the ice just enough to chill the mix, but not enough to water it down. Another option is to pour the vermouth straight into the martini glass, swirl it, then dump it right out into the sink—this will leave a delicate whisper of the flavor behind without over-diluting the flavor of the gin.

23 Use a chilled glass for a martini. When you’ve gone to all the trouble of making a martini the right way, the last thing you want to do is ruin it by pouring it into a warm glass. If your glass is room temperature, the liquid’s temperature will rise, and you’ll lose the whole chilly effect. Plan ahead by putting the glasses in the freezer, or chill them by filling them with ice just before you start to mix your drinks. Also, choose the right glassware: A vintage-size (four-to-six-ounce) glass is perfect. Larger glasses just let the cocktail warm up before you finish drinking it.

24 Garnish your martini properly, with a twist of lemon. Start by cutting the ends off your lemon. To separate the fruit from the rind, slip a spoon between the rind and the fruit and run it around the lemon on both ends. Lay the hollowed out rind on its side and make one long cut so you can flatten it out. Now roll it up tightly. Push a toothpick through the rind to hold the roll in place. Now you can slice through the rind to create twists. An average lemon will yield about eight twists. Before you artistically place the twist, rub the peel gently over the rim of the glass so your guest will taste the oils when sipping the cocktail.

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