/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13879581
Ice in whisky is fine if it's a cheapy blend. It's basically making a whisky and soda without the fizz slowly. Plus it's fun to drink.

>>13879581
you see how the filename says bourbon? that means it's fine, and often preferred

you don't put ice in scotch. not bourbon.

>>13879581
I thought that was a boiled egg at first.

>>13879581
it's your drink and you can do whatever the fuck you want with it

Cold liquor is disgusting.

I add vanilla ice cream to white russians instead of cream. Don't tell anybody.

>>13879846
>he doesnt eat whiskey eggs

>>13879581
is that mozzarella?

>>13880703
So do you take your whiskey fucking boiled or what.

>>13880720
Room temperature, no need to be hyperbolic because you're upset

>>13879630
Actually, if you knew anything about Scottish single blends, you’d know it is advised to always add a little water to glass.

>>13880884
>always
It's to taste. And really all it does is bring a few aromatics more forward.

I don't salt my pasta water

>>13880891
Not what I was told by a master distiller at the Glenmorangie distillery. He said you should always add a little water. Traditionally peat water but that this is where adding ice and soda come from. Although those were too much and just a little water was preferable.

>>13880914
Are you sure he wasn't talking about cask strength scotch specifically?

>>13879955
Based live and let live bug chaser

>>13880926
Nope. I got a private tour and taste session with this guy and he made no distinction on cask methods. Just that you could sip them neat but that adding a little peat water had always been traditional.

Some morons think that adding water to whisky creates voodoo magic that adds flavor to whisky, when all its really doing at a scientific level is making guaiacol float to the top of the glass, making the first sips of the dram more flavorful, the last sips of the dram less flavorful, and the average sip less flavorful due to dilution. Don't be a Goofus. Be Gallant.

>>13880957
Peat water is something he's clearly making up for dumb tourists to sell you bottled water from the gift shop so I'll chose to ignore him.

>>13880884

>>13880963
>dram
Kill yourself, sincerely

>>13881205
Beat me to it

I pour a touch of water in my glass of whiskey

>>13879650
its actually better to put a bit of water in scotch lol

>>13880963
I add a few drops of water to my higher proof bourbons because fuck drinking anything 130 proof neat

>>13880884
Only if the whisk[e]y has sufficient oils in it.

good whisky is whisky that you like
and the right way to drink is the way you like to drink it
anyone that says otherwise is a pretentious asshole

NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST DRINK COLD WHISKY

>>13881296
>I have a vagina

>>13879581
>Maple syrup on the rocks
You sick fuck.

cold whiskey warms up in your mouth anyway, so ultimately it doesn't matter.

>caring how other people prefer their drinks
peak autism

>>13881848
A process which numbs your taste reception slightly.

>>13882033
taste receptors are being numbed by the alcohol not by the cold, dumbass.

Chilling whisky absolutely makes it be perceived as less flavorful. This is not debatable.

>>13882044
the cold does as well, moron.

>>13882934
It is.

>>13882961
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2005/12/19/Food-temperature-affects-taste-reveal-scientists
>A new study reveals why our taste perception is enhanced as the temperature of food and beverage products increases, explaining why beer is more bitter and ice cream is sweeter when consumed warm.
>The study, published in last week's Nature journal, identified microscopic channels in our taste buds- termed TRPM5- as being responsible for different taste perception at different temperatures.
>According to the researchers, the reaction of TRPM5 in our taste buds is much more intense when the temperature of food or fluid is increased, sending a stronger electrical signal to the brain and resulting in an enhanced taste.
Now shut up while adults are talking.

>>13879650
you are meant to put a little ice or cold water in scotch

>>13879581
there is nothing wrong with chilling shitty whiskey.

>>13883682
There's zero excuse to be drinking shitty whisky in the first place because Evan Williams exists.

>>13879581

>ITT: /ck/ Heresy

>Fucking whisky snobs and anti-snobs can't get beyond the first post without having the same argument they always do

Even if you use whisky stones chilling a spirit dulls its flavor. It shouldn't be done to even decent spirits.

>>13883782
Except scotch is meant to have cool water added to it. But what do the Scots know? they've only been making it and drinking it that way for a couple of hundred years, but you in your less than 10 years of drinking knowledge would know better. Twat.

>>13883786
The tradition dates from when it was glorified moonshine. Maybe you want to hit the "water of life" with a little cool water to deal with how fucking bad it is. Just don't do it to modern spirits.

>>13879581
Bourbon is shit bud, just too damn sweet.

I’ve switched to Rye, America’s true Whiskey.

Rye isn’t over candied like Bourbon , Rye has bold Licorice, BlackBerry, Leather, Pepper, Oak flavor.

Rye>Bourbon

>>13883793
Literally every single scotch experts reccomends adding water to it. I mean literally in it's dictionary meaning.

Your opinion is like a child explaining to Stephen Hawking how a black hole works.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-says-add-little-water-your-scotch-180964562/

>The simulation indicates that concentrating the flavor molecules at the surface improves both the aroma and taste. “The first thing that you will experience on the tongue is what’s on the interface [between liquid and air],” Karlsson tells Kennedy.

>>13883809
Name 17 scotch "experts" that recommend something other than room temperature water.

>>13883823
So you think room temperature water in Scotland is going to be warm?

>>13883830
Relative to Ice and stones taken out of a running river yes I do, which is the matter at hand.

>>13883839
I never said anything about ice or cold stone.

>>13883840
The thread is about whether or not you chill whisky. Ambient temperature water by definition doesn't chill whisky.

>>13879581
My mother got me some whisky stones for Christmas one year and I have tried them out in various drinks.
They kinda suck. I'd rather have my vodka get watered down a bit my an icecube than have a couple rocks in there that feel like they do nothing.
I've been wondering if I could take it the other way and heat them up instead. Put them inside a pheasant or something to heat it from the inside as well.

>>13883754
This
This thread wasn’t supposed to be
>pot argues with kettle over which is nigger-er

>>13881803
>68% elija craig? mmm mmm no water or ice for me!
cmon son, some whiskeys are just too hot

do people seriously put an egg in their whiskey

>>13884050
no but i like to whisk my eggs

>>13883815
>the ethanol and the guaiacol rise to the surface, to an area the researchers call the top of the liquid.
So, as >>13880963 states,
>all its really doing at a scientific level is making guaiacol float to the top of the glass, making the first sips of the dram more flavorful, the last sips of the dram less flavorful, and the average sip less flavorful due to dilution. Don't be a Goofus. Be Gallant.
Adding water to whisky is objectively incorrect and immoral.

>>13884055
based

>>13881642
hurr hurr ice goes clink

>>13883830
No, it's room temperature, which isn't ice, what the fuck do you think we are up here? You think we don't have central heating? Or fire?

Dumb Yank.

>>13881249
What word should he use to refer to a 1.75 oz pour meant to be sipped on slowly?

>>13879650
Why would it be preferred
Do americans really...?
>>13880703
This

>>13879581
Fuck water ice
You know what rocks? Whiskey over vanilla ice cream.

>>13880963
>Dram
I cringed

>>13881205
>>13881259
Imagine being such a brainlet that you're offended by facts.

>>13879581
Egg whisky? What's the appeal?

>>13879650
Is johnny walker scotch or bourbon?
Because i put 3 cubes in it

>>13879846
>he doesn't make tinctures with boiled eggs and bourbon
Homeopathic remedy for Autism

>>13880884
Most of the whisky ive tried only got worse after adding water. I'll stick to drinking it neat.