/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12702352]

Why do people pretend alcohol is just to get you high and does not impart flavor? Just to be edgy?

[Anonymous No.12702361]

>>12702352
I'll take a shot over your girly cocktails any day

Whiskey on a cold winter night. Pure. Kino.

[Anonymous No.12702366]

>>12702352
the way people talk about booze on /ck/ is evidence enough for consumption based on drug habit

[Anonymous No.12702370]

>>12702361
I had a friend since elementary school who once told me something similar, he looked at me intently and said "god I wish you were a girl".

[Anonymous No.12702434]

>>12702352
The average americans taste buds are really fucked and they don't like anything flavorful that isn't also really sweet. Alcohol is bitter. If you think I'm joking I have coworkers gag when I make various tea and they see me drink it without putting sugar in it after letting it steep the proper amount of time.

[Anonymous No.12702622]

>>12702370
Wut

[Anonymous No.12702662]

>>12702370
Go on...

[Anonymous No.12702671]

>>12702662
So I says to the guy, "maybe I could be a girl just for one night...."

[Anonymous No.12702812]

>>12702671
*unzips dick*

[Anonymous No.12703009]

>>12702352
Because cheap alcohol absolutely is.
Vodka with Coca-Cola is not something you sip like a decadent noble.

[Anonymous No.12703018]

Bottom shelf alcohol isn't merely half as enjoyable, it isn't even worth drinking. Yet everyone talks about how wonderful it is and after a few I agree.

[Anonymous No.12703026]

>>12702352
alcohol clearly imparts flavor and that can be proven by the fact it's used for flavoring extracts

[Anonymous No.12703076]

>>12703026
>it's used for flavoring extracts
It's used to lower the evaporation temperature to improve the rate of scent dispersal. Alcohol itself has almost no flavour or scent.

[Anonymous No.12703084]

>>12702352
Some people have that relationship with alcohol. My uncle used to prefunc family gatherings by drinking, my dad and grandpa would drink with him since they'd all get there early. My dad and grandpa recognized the uncle had a problem when he made a pitcher of 'martinis' which in and of itself is terrible but the 'martini' was basically cheap vodka with a splash of gin.

[Anonymous No.12703126]

>>12703084

>Martini
>Vodka with a splash of gin

I know there's a martini identity crisis, but there's a line between calling anything in a martini glass a martini and calling anything with vodka and/or gin a martini.


Would totally have a pitcher of martinis with folk though.
I once a martini with of bombay sapphire and decade-expired Noilly Pratt and had some cheetos with it, and that bitch really put the "guilty" in "guilty pleasure"

[Anonymous No.12703631]

>>12703076
Shut the fuck up science bitch

[Anonymous No.12703646]

>>12702671
Holy.... I want more...

[Anonymous No.12703679]

>>12703076
>Alcohol itself has almost no flavour or scent.
Well thats not really true, its largely used because a lot of flavorful compounds do not dissolve in water but do dissolve in ethanol, plus it can sit at room temperature for long periods of time without having to worry about microbiological contamination unlike water based solutions

but ethanol definitely has a sweet scent and flavor, its just easily overpowered by most flavor compounds which only take very small concentrations for us to notice unlike ethanol

[Anonymous No.12704616]

>>12702352
Flavor does matter, but you have to make a cocktail that won't give you a hangover.

Cheap spiced rum and Rootbeer tastes great and will get you trashed on the cheap. But you're gonna get hurt in the morning.
If you mix an old fashioned with some decent bourbon and you'll feel okay the next day.

trick is you want more vitamin C than sugar in your drank.

[Anonymous No.12704629]

>>12702352
Your balls just haven't dropped yet, give it a few years then try again.

[Anonymous No.12704691]

>>12704616
>in your drank

I'm not sure that's how the English language nor dehydration works. Or gut rot from drinking too much.

[Anonymous No.12704869]

>>12704691
WEST SIDE!

[Anonymous No.12704876]

>>12704691
Quality alcohol has lower methanol contamination, which results in a gentler hangover if you get one at all. The sugar in rootbeer also makes such a mix a harder drink to recover from. There's more to a hangover than you seem to think.

[Anonymous No.12704887]

Alcohol doesnt even register as a drink to me. It tastes awful.
Itd be like if I drank soap, my body just tells me "That wasn't food, idiot."

[Anonymous No.12704890]

>>12704887
Early soap was made from lard and was in fact a good source of calories in a pinch. Dogs eat such soap when they find it, and are glad to do so.

[Anonymous No.12705250]

>>12702352
while I like a nice flavour, id rather high alcohol content and cheap
after a couple drinks I wont care anymore

[Anonymous No.12705559]

>>12702352

The high becomes part of the flavor. This is why vodka is usually 40% while wine is 13%, for example. How fast you get drunk and what kind of drunk you get from the drink is part of the drinking experience.

[Anonymous No.12705939]

Yeah Im not sure why its more popular to be fucked up than to drink something that taste good. Its like if high caffeine coffe was more popular no matter how bitter it is, its like ok your all wired on coffee , why not just take a caffeine pill?

I didnt grow up with high school drinking or college drinking, I get maybe less than 10 drinks a year max, and everytime I do drink I enjoy it usually because I spend a little more $$$/ Try something new. However I never go, man I cant wait for my next drink. I would say 50% of most drinks I get bored of the taste when i'm almost done with it.

Dunno man

[Anonymous No.12706014]

>>12703679
smart
>>12703026
dumb
flavor (taste + aroma) compounds bind better to alcohol than lipids or water
many cheap extracts are made with glycerin - a sugar alcohol derived from fats - rather than ethanol. the point is not to have flavor from the alcohol but rather for the alcohol to usurp the flavor of the infused ingredient.