Hey guys I got a fun one for you today
So these smoking guns from Breville are the best way to add a delicious smoky flavour to cocktails
I often use it to make a smoked old fashioned, but this week
I'm actually gonna be giving one away for free if you want to enter to win just head over to my Instagram account
Liked this video and comment in one of your friends who likes cocktails at the end of the week
I will select someone at random as a winner and ship out the smoking gun and here's the other fun part
This is actually being run as a competition between other cocktail influencers
So if we get the most engagement on that post I'm actually gonna get a lot more of these smoking guns to give out to
You guys and free prizes
I got a good feeling about Team cocktail chemistry taking this so I'll put a link to my Instagram
post in the description of this video
Take a few seconds head over there like and comment and then come back for the rest of the video
So what are we gonna do with this smoking gun well you guys might remember my original?
Smoke bomb video. It's one of my most popular
But it actually used a really clumsy way of getting smoke inside of a hollow ice shell
The smoking guns gonna make that a lot easier so today
We're gonna make the improved smoke bomb so we're gonna start by creating our hollow ice ball shell again
We're gonna use a standard two and a half inch ice ball mold fill it up with water and freeze it for about three hours
Carefully remove the top and you'll see that it is frozen on the outside and liquid on the inside
Now I need to puncture that shell and drain the water here
I'm going to be using a giant syringe that I'm gonna heat up with a lighter
I like to do this step when other people are around to see the look of confusion and
Discomfort on their face as I use this crazy tool once you extract most of the water using the syringe
Take the ice shell out turn it upside down and just get the last few drops out and you'll be left with this perfectly clear
Ice ball shell you can keep it in the mold and store it in the freezer until you're ready to use
Okay, now we need our cocktail and we're gonna be making a smoked maple old fashioned
And so it only makes sense that we use the delicious hi West campfire whiskey add in two ounces or 60 mils
Next we're gonna hit that with two dashes of Fee brothers
old-fashioned bitters and
For sweetness we're gonna add one bar spoon of maple syrup
Get your smashing hand warmed up by stirring that over ice for about 45 seconds
Alright, now. We need to load up the smoking gun with woodchips
It comes with Hickory and Applewood
And we're gonna use a pinch of the Applewood for this one after we fill that shell with smoke
We're gonna need something to plug it up so the smoke doesn't escape and to do that we're gonna skewer a maraschino cherry
On a toothpick come on
there we go alright take your ice ball shell out of the freezer and
Gently place it in a rocks glass with the hole facing up
Okay, then we're gonna turn on the smoking gun fan light a match and get that smoke going
Once it fills up the ball. Take your maraschino pick and plug it up
This method is way easier than the funnel approach from my first video
But your apartment will smell like a campfire for the next 20 minutes or so
Okay, then we're gonna strain our maple
Old-fashioned gently over the ball note that it will float a little bit grab a little hammer
activate slow motion and smash away
The smoke not only gives a memorable visual effect
But it smells amazing and when you take a sip the Applewood notes will pair great with the maple and whiskey
I'm gonna leave you guys with a montage of smoke bombs that didn't make the cut and to enter to win a free
Smoking gun yourself head over to my Instagram page and like and comment this video Cheers