Pro Chefs Make Their Favorite Cocktails (10 Recipes) | Test Kitchen Talks | Bon Appétit

it has a lot of tequila in it those would be careful we're here in the Test Kitchen and we're making our favorite cocktails I am going to make a cocktail that's called the little Ripper I invented the little Ripper so don't anyone on the internet try and steal this from me I'm doing dry January right now so I can't drink this which is proof the little Ripper is kind of a play on Amaro and soda it's kind of a play on an Americano I call it the literally anytime drink it's super simple it takes you like two minutes to make and it's low ABV so you can drink about 48 of them it's kind of tastes like if you took flat root beer and flat coca-cola and injected it with a little bit more bitterness and some heavy like kind of honey and brown sugar sweetness soda Amaro lemon olive ice that's it I'm using a Verena Averna is like for me kind of the all-purpose Averna and chien are my two all-purpose dark Amaury I'm also very particular about my ice just stacking ice cubes like this in a Collins glass is my ultimate pet peeve I hate it I think it just looks terrible when I make this at home I take ice cubes and I just crack them up a little bit with the back of a spoon the the ratio of what you put in here is super simple so I'm doing three ounces of soda two ounces of a Verena and that is beautiful I love watching the Amaro move down through the soda I think it's hypnotizing so then a little bit of lemon peel and then we're gonna spritz a little bit of juice on top this along with the club soda kind of brightens the whole thing up and then I'm gonna do two olives that adds just like a little bit of salt a little bit of Bry you know what living on the edge I'm not drinking this so we're doing Three Olives and also gives you a snack at the bottom so then colorful side out you wanna put your fingers like that gently crimp it over the top of the glass rub it on the rim this just releases the oils in the citrus rind and that kind of like perfumes the top of your glass so when you pull your cocktail up you're you're smelling like this bright wonderful lemony drink I will always go diagonally with the glass a little bit peeking above the rim and that is the little Ripper pre-dinner after-dinner prix lunch after lunch rip it whenever you want to rip it I want to drink that so bad I'm gonna make my favorite cocktails an old fashioned a rye old fashioned that's the key this is the cocktail I make most nights after work to drown my sorrows in and it does a good job I like these raw sugar cubes just cuz they have a little molasses flavor it is typically two ounces of whiskey and a couple dashes of bitters but I like a lot of bitters I like to soak my cube like really get in there I'm gonna muddle the cube some people put fruit in here but I just want bitters the key to a good old fashioned is you want to muddle the sugar in the glass you're gonna drink it out of instead of doing it in a mixing glass because you really want like a little bit of sugar residue at the bottom that's kind of like the signature of the drink and then pour in as much whiskey as you feel good about I feels good to me right it's after 5:00 is it after 5:00 it's almost after you need a giant ice cube cuz it makes you feel like you're fancy and you want to stir it until you feel the glass has become cold and I like to finish it with a really fat twist and you really want it to be pretty thick so you get nice spurts we did it this is what keeps me warm at night so I really like this more than a regular old-fashioned which is usually bourbon because the Rittenhouse rye is really spicy it's spicy err than the average rye even so it can really hold up to that sugar cube so this still has a really nice kick it's perfect it's the best drink I'm gonna drink this whole thing are we done a year or so ago I started to make my own fall fashions at home I'm not really a culture person if you know me you know I usually go for wine or beer I came up with this special way of doing it with other ingredients little I knew I showed up here the next day and I told Kat vi1 of our dear co-workers that I made this drink with lemon ginger and honey and she's like that's called penicillin and I didn't know who so will help you show your heart and the flu so Gabi feel better drink so the first thing I do is I get a lemon and do a bee bee as long as I can for my garnish then I'm gonna cut this in half cut this guy in pieces then I get a nice novel ginger wash it don't peel in two answers of water that I already have measured every amount of honey you be the judge and then I put two answer so frisky so now you can get the strongest person around you to do this job I believe that for an old-fashioned you need just one ice cube you don't need more than that this is already metal I'm gonna put the whiskey in don't laugh on my shaking skills Oh the honey bear so I'm gonna put a little bit in the bottom then I'm gonna squeeze a little more lemon there there comes the big ice cube I like to use the strainer but I like to pretend that I know what I'm doing be careful don't poke your finger so this is candied ginger I just wanted to dress it up that's it Gavi feel better drink Bon Appetit Sochi country is a drink that I grew up having it was basically just like a salt and pepper limeade my dad grew up having it you're really really scorching hot Indian summers it kind of has this electrolyte II jolt that you get from Gatorade it makes a really really good large batch summer cocktail which we're gonna make in January so we're not really measurers in the Krishna family were more like pours just pour enough tequila in accordance to what kind of party you want to have let's let's just let's do something maybe a little leave a little splash mark maybe that's that's a lot of tequila I'm just gonna two p.m. on a work day okay pour the party back in then you're gonna add the juice of like six limes two cups of water quarter cup of sugar this is sugar some salt and about 3/4 teaspoon of black pepper the pepper is kind of what brings this to life all right you just looking for it to froth up it's nice no joke my dad drinks this out of beer signs and you can totally do that if you want but I'm choosing a more reasonable option and then you're just gonna garnish it with a little pepper and just like that spike Chacon gee what's the good stuff it's like everything I want a sports drink to be maybe I should just be putting pepper in my Gatorade so love come on try a sip of my shake like chicken G this is seems so crazy to me so very excited really it's really frothy and pretty though it has a lot of tequila in it though so be careful oh yeah this might be your best work it's really good I like all that pepper in there yeah and you know you don't even have feel bad about the tequila cos the peppers like cleansing that's so true why wasn't it in our healthy issue issue it's a pepper cleanser I am going to be making a white Negroni it's one of the easiest cocktails to make of all time because it is there's nothing really to remember it's just a 1 to 1 to 1 ratio the first ingredient is gin today we're using Tanqueray which is a London Dry Gin which was the purest form of gin you can find this is Lily Blanc it's made from white grapes and it has these really great like warm honey and citrusy notes to it it's also very sweet the last ingredient is Sue's which is extremely potent it is very medicinal so we're just gonna use a tiny bit of this and it's going to anchor the drink and give it this like backbone I have my shaker she's gonna dump some ice right to the top I'm gonna do one and a half ounces of gin an equal part of Lily and then I'm just gonna do a 1/2 ounce of soup and then I am going to take long handed bar spoon you want the ice to properly dilute the drink so it's not so strong and like burning the outside of it will frost up it'll just feel chilled I'm going to use a large ice cube to put into my rocks glass and then I'm just gonna strain this it's finally a traditional Negroni you finish it off with an orange peel for this one I'm going to finish off some lemon the outside of the citrus peel has all these really aromatic oils that you can kind of hold it a few inches away from the glass and just give it a squeeze drop it in and you know quite Negroni I made it all for you just so quick never had a white Negroni are you fan of regular Inverness that's good yeah I like the little it's like way more floral like everything's super Botanica ah yeah so it feels like the Negroni put on a nice pretty good yeah who's going out tonight alright give it go back and pound some meat now okay folks today I'm going to make my favorite cocktail in the whole wide world which is the piña colada this is about a half of a fresh pineapple that's been cut up into chunks and then frozen good use a high-powered blender if you have one because the stuff's very hard this is six ounces of cream of coconut Coco Lopez is the brand of choice very very very sweet also in this recipe we have a couple of ounces of unsweetened coconut milk a couple tablespoons of fresh lime juice to cut through all of the sweetness six ounces of white rum some ice it wouldn't be a recipe by me if it didn't have a little salt in it once you've blended all of your ingredients you then throw the Pina Colada back into the freezer in the blender so that it gets super nice and cold again and can sort of recrystallize Marc I mean from art you just do frozen margarita pie Marguerite on the rocks oh yeah same but occasionally time to place here's a little lime juice so this has been in the freezer for like 30 minutes and I'm gonna read blend and then we're gonna serve it up I'm not some extra room in here are we rolling now I don't like what's going on the most exciting part of all we have a hollowed-out pineapple and in we go some garnishes these are fancy mer she knows we just were fancy like that at ba and then this is for whoever wants to join me I'm gonna do a float of dark rum which is like a bit more aged and more flavorful than the white rum that's a nip double down on the booze okay I'm ready can you tell I'm so excited okay now we're having a good time everyone at the same time I'm a dusty nose you're so very welcome very good I have a lot of favorite cocktails my favorite cocktail to drink during the wintertime is a classic daiquiri those really bright and refreshing and I usually feel like the sun is shining my favorite sick day cocktail that's not a thing that most people have but I do have a sick day cocktail any drink that has is not just booze has to be shaken so like a martini you stir because it's just booze on booze but because we have lime juice and rum in the same cocktail we're gonna shake it so we've got some white rum I'm gonna take two ounces of that I love these little mini graduated measuring cups because it's just so much easier than a I'm not being paid to say this we're gonna juice some limes we need one ounce of lime juice some people add a little bit less I like it pretty tart and then we're gonna add three quarters of an ounce of simple syrup which is just one-to-one sugar to water we're gonna add plenty of ice to our shaker a lot of people serve it in a coupe I like it in a stemless glass so I feel like it wants to be drinking kind of quickly that's a daiquiri this is an intervention like are all my friends and family gonna come out yeah you know I enjoy to and I enjoy alcoholic beverages responsibly and often one of my absolute favorite cocktails which is an Americano you have to be careful when you order it because some bars you could go in and ask for an Americano and they think that you mean the espresso in hot water but definitely got served coffee once or twice it's very similar to like a Campari and soda it's something you would have liked before maybe having a glass of wine or getting into it it's a really easy cocktail because it's equal amounts of a red bitter like Campari today I'm using this Fort Hayes spirit which is similar to Campari so it's got those bitter kind of botanical qualities and it's a little bit sweet and then with that you use equal amounts of red vermouth or sweet vermouth so I'm just gonna eyeball the lines on the glass or you really handy so you're getting like a bittersweet kind of vibe and then it's this great color too this is the antica formula one but like a Dolan sweet vermouth or any sweet vermouth will work you could also do it in like a big wine glass and normally it would be more than one Rock but these are such big rocks so let's just do that one and then you top it off classic that is so like classic did any get in there a little bit do that again just top it off for the little spritz a little stir Easter got a little orange no she's pithy I like a little bit of green olive which sometimes you'll get in like Aperol spritz or Campari spritz I love that and that's the drink hmm I love mess counts my favourite spirit I will drink it on its own just sipped which is the proper way but I kind of do like a little compared with some of my favourite ingredients so the first thing that I do is kind of make to salt make sure I just use about like equal parts I'm just gonna use my fingers equal parts flaky salt two chillies and I just kind of make it like a chilli salt I'm gonna grab a mortar and pestle I just broke down the flaky salt and the chillies you saw I was like on the course side now it's quite fine that's actually probably not only gonna help it stick to the glass but it's also you're really kind of extracting the oils from the chillies and then I'm gonna cut the grapefruit I just like to remove the centre membrane and then from here I kind of go and make a few slices now I'm just getting more chilli salt on the grapefruit you could serve this on the side I like the glass ice and then I'm gonna do a nice pour of mezcal I'd say about almost halfway what I'll do is I'll take a sip just as is you don't that's so delicious just drinking it neat it's sometimes too much for me but drinking with a little bit of ice and then kind of going and taking a bite of the bitter grapefruit with the chili and salt and just like you get this rush of flavor and I'm out starting to salvage just try that I don't actually drink that many cocktails any more children have sort of taken that part of my life away back in the day margarita was my drink of choice for sure there's just something about how simple and clean it is anything frankly that hues to that sour formula like that is my jam just like simple but bright you can use simple syrup you know for this recipe but you can also use Cointreau so Cointreau is a kind of a sweet sour orange base liqueur from France I'm gonna put ice in here first 3/4 of an ounce of lime juice 3/4 of an ounce of Cointreau I like to do the most expensive alcohol last just because if you screw up one of the other ingredients we don't have to start over I like to do a half of salt sometimes you're just not feeling you know that much salt but at least this gives you the option boom it's damn good it's a little sharp anyway that's all folks thank you nice anybody want a Pina

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Length: 18min 19sec (1099 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 16 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ruhyen]

Looks like they just uploaded it again and took out the beginning with all of them drinking from the same drink.

[u/Threetimes3]

Quarantine edition

[u/steveofthejungle]

Priya's drink sounds delicious. Three of my favorite things are lime, black pepper, and tequila. I need to try this

[u/leodanger]

I don't know what this says about me but Sohla just cemented her place as my all round favourite.

[u/Rated_PG-Squirteen]

Sohla continues her awesome streak. I am quite disappointed that we didn't get a Delaney Drink Drop though.

[u/BraumsAway]

I love everyone in the Test Kitchen, but Sohla is the future of this channel.

Also, I need to make that shikanji. Sounds a lot like nước chanh muối (vietnamese limeade).

[u/suntoryhoroyoi]

I like the first one better. Sorry.

[u/BigMax55]

Goddamn! I could go for an old fashioned or a good margarita rn

[u/ernestreviews]

Delaney really came through with Amaro and soda as his favourite cocktail... and gave it a name.