hey guys retired at 40 it's about 10 o'clock in the morning and I haven't
been drinking much so there I am sitting at the freeze dryer there's a de martini
in one hand my other hand is unloading the machine and I'm thinking to myself
why haven't I thought of this before and that was I've got martini and I've
got freeze dryer tray why can't I freeze dry alcohol so I did a little research
and I found out a couple things that are pretty important in order to make this
work and I have not tried it yet so you're trying it for the first time with
me
there's two things to take into consideration if we're gonna try and
make us work it's number one is what are you freeze-drying
now why does that matter well different alcohols have different freeze
temperatures a beer for instance is somewhere around negative 25 to negative
30 degrees whereas a high grade tequila can be almost a negative 100 degrees all
right number two is also important and that's the alcohol level in what you're
freeze-drying and the reason why that makes a big
difference is that kind of ties into the freeze temperature because something
that is a higher proof such as whiskey say whiskey is 90 proof that's a higher
alcohol than something like a wine that's more of like a thirty to forty
proof the reason why this matters is the amount of alcohol versus whatever the
filler is that's not alcohol which will most likely be mostly water is going to
make a huge difference on your freeze time and more than anything whether it's
gonna work or not so with the whole alcohol level thing that kind of brings
me to what I chose to freeze-dry and why so I live in Colorado which is
pretty much the beer capital of the world especially microbrew so I decided
that I am NOT gonna do anything but the best kind of beer Colt 45 baby that was
a joke then I decided that wine would be a good candidate
lots of people drink wine wines a low level of alcohol plus it just seems like
something that would reconstitute well kind of going along with the wine thing
I thought champagne would be interesting because champagne is so bubbly and
things that are bubbly that I've put into the freezer are always make for
in product even if it fails next I gotta go with the martini and just vodka in
general it's one of my favorite things to drink vodka goes with everything if
you can freeze dry vodka you can come up with thousand things to mix it with and
then why not a Bloody Mary to go with the vodka now I'll tell you some of the
things that I was gonna freeze dry but I don't think will work and I might try if
this all works maybe I'll try it in another episode I really wanted to try
whiskey because there's a lot of people that drink whiskey and I really wanted
to try tequila the problem with both of those things is they both have a really
high alcohol level even the cheap stuff the tequila that I had was like a 90
proof and I can pretty much guarantee you the freeze dryer isn't gonna work with it
because it doesn't get cold enough to freeze it all right so let's get mixing
some drinks plus my drinks empty since you've stuck around with me I'm going to
give you my super-secret retired at 40 martini recipe so the first thing you
need is a good shaker and you got to fill this shaker with lots and lots of
ice you always go 2 to 1 ratio so I do 2 of whatever it is so if it's 2 ounces of
vodka if you want to do a shot like two shots and 1 shot of vermouth and then
just you know if you want a dirty martini then you just do a splash of
olive juice if you want a dry martini you don't need any olive juice at all
you can just throw an olive in
I'm going to double it up so I'm going to do four vodka and then we're gonna do
remove make sure it's the dry vermouth there's a sweet vermouth and it's
disgusting it's used for other things but you want a dry vermouth this is an
actual olive juice that's prepackaged you can just use olive right at it or
you can use the olive juice right out of an olive jar this is about 3/4 of the
way full. That's a dirty martini put your top back on make sure it's good
and sealed and just shake it so you might be asking how am I going to get
this into the freeze dryer and then I thought ice cube trays if I put them
into ice cube trays and I freeze them I'll have a solid and I can put the
solid on to the ice cream ice trays alright so this is as good a time as any
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hearing from you guys all right no martini would be complete without olives
so we're gonna freeze dry some olives too if you have a good Bloody Mary
recipe put it down in the comments I'd love to see it so for mine I'm going to
do two cups of vegetable juice and I'm gonna do this in my new Vitamix if
you've never seen a Vitamix before this is like the the blender of all blenders
alright and then I'm gonna do is three of these vodka we're going to do a few
dashes of hot sauce or several lots of dashes I also threw a couple stalks of
celery and a couple shots of Worcestershire in there now I'm using
this bigger container because I think a Bloody Mary will be better in this
larger cube but but if you think about what we were talking about earlier the
alcohol level you're taking vodka but you're cutting it
quite a bit with lots of other ingredients so even if it's 40 50 60
percent you're cutting it down a whole lot by adding all the tomato juice and
other ingredients in there alright first I'm gonna pour some out for my dead
homies with some colt 45 glad we squeezed that all in there cuz I
didn't want to have to drink it next a little little bubbly alright then we're
gonna do some 19 crimes Cabernet Sauvignon alright we are loaded no pun
intended and ready to go alright here's our true test our first
test to see if this is gonna work that's awesome it looks like everything froze
that's a good sign alright I'm gonna go ahead and get the freeze dryer started
let it pre freeze for half an hour and I'm gonna put these trays in so I am
gonna adjust my final dry just because this is pure liquid form I'm gonna do 10
hours see what that gets us pre frozen obviously our pre freeze is complete I
just need to flip these cubes on to the tray before I put it in but I don't know
jury's still out you know I thought these were frozen solid but they're
still some of them are still a little bit mushy so man I don't I'm not sure
yet if I get him into the freeze dryer real quick before they have any more
time to melt our chances are probably gonna be a little bit better ideally
these would all stay in this cube form alright I need to get these in here as
quick as I can
before they have any time to melt
all right we'll see what happens
well we're all done but we've got a little pool of water right here it never
happened before so let's see what it is
not looking good
there's our martinis
actually that's the martinis and Bloody Marys
there's our wine
that is I'm not sure that is
beer maybe or the champagne
there's the beer
close up of all of it I really really wanted this to work
because i thought it would be really cool but I don't it almost looks like it burned
everything someone's got a heck of a mess to clean up oh my that's a big mess
the oil has lots and lot of water in it it's really cloudy so when we were
considering if this was gonna work we had number one number two but what I
didn't take an account was number three which is sugar content which in the past
has been a very big deal because things with a very high sugar content tend to
not do well and what I didn't consider was alcohol has a lot of sugar and
especially wine especially beer really any alcohol because the sugar is what
creates the alcohol well they can all be a great success and
with all failure you always learn something so what we've learned from
this is that anything with a really low freezing point below with freeze dryer
will go to obviously won't work it makes an enormous mess and I don't think even
something like with a wine that has a low alcohol content and a relatively
high freezing point it's still not going to work
so unfortunately I'm going to fail but I will say this is my first fail in the
harvest right. This was the first thing with 100% certainty that I can say will not
work so until next time this is retired at 40 remember to live life simple we'll
catch you next week