Cuba's Mojito - 3 Ways
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2018
- Cuba's mojito is arguably the world's most popular cocktail and with good reason, it's simple, refreshing, and delicious. Here we make three versions: the traditional, the modern, and the "post-modern" using Dave Arnold's nitro muddling technique with liquid nitrogen.
WARNING: Only use liquid nitrogen only if you’ve been trained and are aware of all the hazards involved.
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"Well, I'm off to the Welding Supply Shop"
"To get what?"
"Cocktail ingredients"
Where can I buy one of these sippy cylinders? Straws seem so inferior to them.
Amason
Fuck it you know what I mean.
@@franklintangelo3456, You can edit comments, you know.
@@TheTheninjagummybear then it wouldnt have been as amasing
Frozen Toast
It’s amuzing
"you'll want gloves if you're handling any super chilled metal" *proceeds to pour nitrogen and grab shaker with bare hands* 😂
Great! I'll just go get my liquid nitrogen out of the pantry...
You keep it in the pantry? I just have it on tap.
On tap ? Smh lmaooo
Na you can find LN for food and drinks near you just on your phones it’s not a hard thing to get your hands on.
Oooh that sarcasm
if you cant get your hands on good organic liquid nitrogen from your own liquid nitrogen set up, store bought is fine. LOL
@@benoevil 🤣🤣
I love that technique with the liquid nitrogen I've read it on the "Liquid Inteligence" Very nice book for some home bartending techniques .
Not sure you see these on old videos but you just guided me to make my first mojito (and frankly everyone loved it) so thank you and definitely looking at what else to make
I never knew u cant get havana club over in the us, here in germany it is a rather cheap rum
We still have a trade embargo with Cuba, sadly
Will try it next time, Prost!
I guess I shouldn't take it for granted in Canada anymore
In a way, you can get it in the US, but it's actually kind of difficult. You can't BUY it in the US, but you can bring as much into the country as you want. The Embargo is still in place, but the Obama era loosened restrictions on bringing in tobacco and alcohol products from Cuba. If you really want it, the easiest way is to cross over to either Mexico or Canada, buy it there and bring it back. It's fine rum, but it's not really worth the hassle.
Actually the 3 year old is really decent. I dislike the regular (unaged) and the really dark variants of Havanna Club, but 3 years is great for Mojitos :D
Moscow Coke Mule
60ml vodka
15ml of lime juice
15ml of ginger syrup (as seen in the moscow mule video)
Top off with coca cola
This came to be one night when i was short on ingredients. Its pretty damn nice and i got nowhere better to share this.
I do realise im probably not the first to think of this variation on the Moscow mule but i hope someone enjoys this because of this.
By the way great video as always.
Random Rotors First time I’ve heard about it, gotta try it ASAP. I think the name could be shortened to Moscoke Mule though.
This channel has me hooked.
I don't even drink
Wow. The mojito is my favorite drink and you’re the first UA-camr who has made the drink in a way that didn’t make me scream at the screen (“STOP TRYING TO MURDER THE MINT”). With a minor variation, your “pro way” is the way that I have come to make the drink after many years of experience.
Recently found this channel. Its a great watch. This guy is funny, cool, and his voice is perfect for the presentation.
Amazing video! Someone finally tests and compares the traditional authentic mojito with different (modernised) versions !
You know, I like the first version the best. Nice and simple. Nothing fancy. And, it’s authentic because that’s the way it’s done in Cuba.
Man you are my favorite UA-cam video bartender hands down! Love all your recipes
'These are super fine bits of mint'
Mint: 'Thanks dawg, you pretty fine too.'
I absolutely love your channel. Thanks for the history and variations on each drink. Super excited to try the chemist version!!
I like putting the lime in the drink because the skin has nice oils that add a lot to the cocktail. Additionally i muddle the sugar, rum, and lime together and then spank some mint and stir it in with ice and club soda. Muddling the mint can ruin the drink if you go to hard
I like to rim the glass witu the lime just to get that extra little kick
I find the oils from the lime skin to be too bitter for me, personally
@@AndrewBrannen try cutting out the pith, I do that sometimes and it helps cut out the bitterness.
@@Pjaeck35 You are doing a mix of drinks. If you muddle sugar, rum and lime you make a caipirinha, a brazilian drink, and adding the mint with the club soda you do the mojito. It sounds delicious, im going to try it out
@Yuri Vett actually the caipirinha uses a liquor called cachaça
My Cuban wife says that mojitos use yerba buena for the mint. Upon googling it, it seems that while that refers to spearmint in the U.S., according to Wikipedia: "In Cuba, yerba buena generally refers to Mentha nemorosa, a popular plant also known as large apple mint, foxtail mint, hairy mint, woolly mint or, simply, Cuban mint." Cheers!
In Paraguay yerba buena is weed xD
@@Synday lmao, not sure that I would recommend putting that in your drink!
@@SSJ3Tim it actually imparts interesting flavors depending on the strain.
Yerba buena and yerba mentha both mean "mint" in spanish. (It alao means weed lol) but in cuba I've heard that the "yerba buena" is a different kind than mexican yerba buena. Maybe they have peppermint or something more spicy and we use spearmint?
antonio mora Did you read my initial post? It says right there what it is, "In Cuba, yerba buena generally refers to Mentha nemorosa, a popular plant also known as large apple mint, foxtail mint, hairy mint, woolly mint or, simply, Cuban mint." Check the wikipedia page for more info.
It's in the spearmint family, but it's not spearmint. I've had mojitos made with it and I can say it definitely tastes different from spearmint, but a lot closer to spearmint than peppermint.
Definitely my favorite cocktail of them all, saving this for future reference...
Quothe my chemistry professor: "You're not authorized to use cryogenics."
Great expera-mint on different techniques. Each was an improve-mint on the next. The nitrogen really adds an ele-mint of excite-mint and enchant-mint to the cocktail.
The Mojito is one of my all time favorites! Love to see it highlighted
The bar I work at has a nitro muddled mojito on the menu and I agree with everything that he says
Just a few moments ago I had my very first mojito. Had no white rum so I took the Agricole Trois Riviere and MtGay. OMFL the grassy agricole note oairs disgustingly perfect with the mint! Holy cow!!!!!!
I expected disappointment but I was impressed, for the first one you actually followed the authentic mojito recipe as they make it in Cuba to a T (save for the Havana club of course). Respect for doing your research! So many people go with crushed ice or take the mint off the stems and shred it, which is very very wrong.
I made the second recipe for a house party and it was great.
That last one was awesome
A well-constructed mojito is a beautiful thing. I remember trying a virgin mojito at a local restaurant and I recommend avoiding them like the plague. These tutorials are fantastic, though. Just need to wait a few hours until it's socially acceptable to get my drink on (maybe when I'm cooking tonight)
Learned so much from this channel, now I can make my own cocktails!
I learned it's a sippy cylinder, not a straw.
At this point in time I guess I got every video figured out. The cool intro about the title, the first technique, a second updated one, a joke, maybe a third way to make the drink and the outro thanking the patreons. But man the joke make me lose it so badly I nearly run out of breath.
2:24 22ml of acid sounds like a pretty bad trip to me.
Thanks for making me laugh
Necronomicon
Yeah. I used to absolutely love acid in high school. My sweet spot was 350-400 mcg. 22 ml would be enough to murder a family of hippos.
@@elijahculper5522 wow cool man cool story
@@ChodeMaster Dont be a dork, "Chode Master"
@@august-5085 alkright im sory manb
I don't even drink alcohol but I love your videos!
I’ll just need to try all three!!
Wow, awesome that you could make this video so soon, probably gonna try one of those by myself :D
hello, good day to you, Cj here from the Philippines. Love all your videos, gives me new knowledge about cocktails and ideas for cocktails. Can you maybe create a drink for a group that is cheap?
weirdest cheap drink i ever made was gin, mangosteen juice and mountain dew. I mixed the 1 liter mangosteen juice and 240 ml gin together then i add 600ml of mountain dew and ice.
keep up the good work and create more drinks from movies, cartoons, animes, and tv series. :)
This video would've been really helpfull last month when i made mojitos for a summer party(unlucky). From my experience making 15 or so of them i think that the best combo for my taste is juice from 1/4 of a lime then another 1/4 thrown in with the juice extracted as well, then muddle these with 20 mint leafs and 1 cube of sugar afterwards add 30mils of rum and top up with ice and club soda. I like your vids but you see to overly complicate the 2nd recipe and over simplify the 1st one. It's an easy and quick cocktail to make no need for too many ingredients/tools IMO. Keep up the great videos! Love from Greece!
I was trained to not muddle the mint in the first place to avoid the mentioned bruising, the flavour is still expressed from a good slap. Amazing video though, gonna give the nitro muddled version a go
I liked the recap at the end where you compared all three side by side
I like using green apple flavored rum in my mojitos and is also delicious!
Loving your videos!
About time hell yeah it's going down. This drink delicious
No straws, just sippy cylinders. Haha, great video!
Another amazing video
Looks like a green smoothie! 5:50 😆
That is what he said!
Love mojitos !
Good show!
Thanks for this.
One of my favorite drinks.
I highly recommend using raw sugar or, better yet, cane sugar for this cocktail. If you're using syrup you can just as well make it with cane sugar for more character.
Anyway to prep and have big amounts stored for restaurants/bars? Fex after you muddle and mix with rum, could i do large quantities at 30L rum times the amount of leaves? Stored in fridge over long periods or does it go bad?
Does the rum-mint mixture keep long?Could I mixt it in advance, so I wouldn't have to fuck around with nitrogen when building the drinks?
Next level content!!
I always love using a 2:1 simple in my mojitos since you’re already watering it down a little with club soda and It adds a nice sweetness
Andrew Piquette wow that is in credibly sweet. Ive actually stop using a sweetener and gone with a lightly flavored rum.
Michael Crnkovic well I up the citrus, and a mojito is supposed to have sweetness so its perfectly balanced
Would be awesome if you could do a video/lesson on how you can create your own signature drink.
Is there any method to preserve the nitro muddled herbs?
So you can store them in a container for a while?
While I might not be able to use it very often, a friend of mine has the equipment. So being able to store it would be very helpful.
Can you make a mint tea base for your syrup to strengthen the flavor, or is it going to just go bitter like with overmuddling?
Hi.. ever tried using powder sugar instead normal one... I prefer that on the 1st version. Regards
Hey i was wondering if it’s possible to make the shelf life of a bottled cocktail last longer by infusing the oils into another component (like your isi whipper video) I didn’t know if the oils acted the same as juice.
Very nice!
"Cuba's Mojito" is funny because everytime I go to Cuba, they never have mint lmaoo
is it possible in any way to use co2? much more available to me.
I enjoy mojitos. Could you make some flavored ones in the next video?
If i just freeze the leafs of mint in refrigetador and tear the m apart effect is similar?
in the 2nd one. Why add the lime juice after the muddling? I would have thought to muddle after wards so that the oils have more liquid to diffuse into
With the first one start by putting more mint leaf in, the vodka, and then put the sugar after and just stir those three together instead of muddling. Then mix in the soda...... Also can you make that mint dust for the third one ahead of time or does it not keep well?
I get very good result with Veilho Bareido is a very tasty Rum for Mojito and also Caipirinha
I wonder if the nitro method could be used to make a good mint simple syrup
Maybe you don't get mint stuck in your cylinder if you garnish with a single spear at the end, but doing that feels a bit like pealing an apple. The skin might be bitter, but I think it makes the fruit sweeter.
Do you know what pairs well with opossum sou vide
Can you substitute the nitro frozen leaves with freeze dried ones (that are in room temperature). If so we can skip the nitro and buy freeze dried basil/mint instead, easier and faster.
I prefer my mojitos made with muddled lime wedges together with brown sugar. Then mint slightly pressed to avoid bruising. Crushed ice to top the glass and pour 50ml of rum.
Vigorous stir and top with club soda.
The sugar granules are a treat that balances the sour and zest of the lime.
With mojito is it wrong to muddle lime with the mint leaves? Removing the white if bitterness is undesirable of cause and using crushed ice instead of solid ice
Acid should also inactivate polyphenol oxidase. Potentially you'd get the same effect of nitromuddling by soaking mint in limejuice, then blending in a nutribullet or some other rapid blender.
Do you think the nitro muddling technique could also work well for the Mint Julep?
I like to do it with brown sugar and 4/8 of a lime add the rum 1. muddle it than add the ice, mint, and soda. I think the oils of the lime dissolve in the ethanol that's why you should add the rum 1. Other than that you don't necessarily have to stir it since the rum is lighter than the soda and should rise to the top, depending on if you add the mint with the sugar, ice or at the end
so is there a reason just muddling with lime juice/rum would not also just inactivate the PPO's as they became exposed? is the nitro just for easier processing? if not a blender is mostly sufficient (which i think you allur to but i just wanted to be sure)
Is there a difference between crashing the mint leaves and pouring hot water over it to get the flavour into the water?
That last mojito looks like the best tasting mojito ever 😫😭
Can you substitute the fresh mint with creme de menthe? You know, to get an approxemation for which you don't need to have fresh ingredients in the house?
Question, wouldn't the ice in the cylinder beating against the mint muddle it for you?
Love it!
I haven’t followed this channel for long, why can’t I call it a straw? Hahah
I would also like to know
I do like that you used a sugar cane rum over some molasses rum that has a harsher bite. Part of my gripe getting one of these at some random bar is the reliance on molasses based rums that simply do not taste as good(imo) to a sugar cane based one.
Rougareaux out of Louisiana remains my favorite rum for that reason.
I’ll be turning 21 later this month and I wanted to know if there was some cocktail recommendations anyone had.
What would it be like if the rum or simple were nitro infused? Would a the bitter elements still be eliminated?
You should try the Double kick: 2 parts vodka, 1 part tequila, a shot of orange, and 2oz of soda water on ice shake for 30 sec and pour in 8oz glass
My personal favorite
Can you nitro lime zest and get the same effect?
If all you have is peppermint, is it possible to just simply dial down the amount of mint leaves to achieve similar result, or is spearmint just fundamentally different from peppermint?
Can you make a video about the differences between lemon and lime in cocktails?
I have always made the second one however I think that was a good tip about over muddling I think I tend to do that and I will be more careful in the future. Have you ever made the same drink but with tequila? I am sure there is a name for it I don't know it but it is dam good. Guess how I found out , yep ran out of rum. Thanks for sharing the video.
That glass is soo good..
Have you considered nitro-infusing the entire bottle of rum to have it ready to go? Would that work? Also, I'm not getting where the chlorophyll's bitter taste goes using this method (unless it stays with whatever you strain). Thanks!
Would shaking cause the mint to get muddled more and release that chlorophyll?
Oh oh PERFECT! Do a passion fruit one!
You should take your ring off when working with liquid nitrogen. Also take out any metal keys out of your pockets
Could you do the same using dry ice then remove the ice?
Dang now I want to whip myself up a mojito
Correct me if i'm wrong, will differ from you, i usually press with a spoon the mints on the glass with all the sugar/syrup and lime juice to get that mint smell, then pour everything else (ice first)
Usually when you use the shaker when making mojito you obliterate dem mint leaves, leaving all the bitter to get to the drink.
isn't the usual replacement for genuine havana club the stuff called havana club from bacardi?
Why not muddle with the rum imstead of soda or sirup?