Cuba's Mojito - 3 Ways
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- 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"
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 🤣🤣
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 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
Quothe my chemistry professor: "You're not authorized to use cryogenics."
'These are super fine bits of mint'
Mint: 'Thanks dawg, you pretty fine too.'
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.
Man you are my favorite TH-cam video bartender hands down! Love all your recipes
That last one was awesome
The Mojito is one of my all time favorites! Love to see it highlighted
Learned so much from this channel, now I can make my own cocktails!
I learned it's a sippy cylinder, not a straw.
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 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
Love mojitos !
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?
Real nice, now I am curious about caipirinha or caprinoska :)
Oh, I love a caipirinha! Who needs mint, when you have a fresh lime and some cachaca! Makes me wish I could go to a rodizio and have all the grilled meat I can eat, along with some of that Brazilian rocket fuel!
it's on the list!
I really love caipirinhas. I wish I had one right now, with my lunch. The raw cane sugar spirit combined with a muddled lime is just so deliciously refreshing :-)
caipirinha and caipiroska are the exact same coctkail, except that in caipiroska you use vodka instead of cachaça.
@@vaderexmachina I would claim that those spirits have quite the impact on the flavour
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 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.
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
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.
One of my favorite drinks.
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
About time hell yeah it's going down. This drink delicious
I get very good result with Veilho Bareido is a very tasty Rum for Mojito and also Caipirinha
Nitro muddling?!! Wow!
"Dont even think about calling it a straw"
Calls it a straw less than 30 seconds later
I actually make mine with 1 part coconut rum one part Bacardi rum with a little brown sugar 3 lime slices and some mint I middle my mint sugar and lime with my rum then from there I add it to an iced Collins glass and serve my mojito
Dang now I want to whip myself up a mojito
Is there a difference between crashing the mint leaves and pouring hot water over it to get the flavour into the water?
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 have no clue why, but havanna club 3 years is pretty common in hungary and goes around $20 for a 0.7l bottlr
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?
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)
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?
Ayy, Havana club is a really easy-to-get rum in Bolivia!
Combine the improved with the classic!
add ur mint in the glass,
throw a small amount of sugar then let the weight of your muddler do the muddling as the sugar granules will assist enough.
Then add ur simple syrup, lime, rum.
Stir in mixing glass
Strain in collins glass and add the club soda.
Garnish with a small sprig along with lime wedge.
There’s a lot of people that actually enjoy the sugar granules hitting their pallet though I wouldn’t say there’s as many favoring small mint particles. Make them a bit more sweet than citrus as the public really leans both ways and the wedge, in any case can be ignored if its just sweet enough or be used to balance the drink more.
2.5 oz rum , 1 oz lime juice, 2 oz simple, club soda
Why not muddle with the rum imstead of soda or sirup?
When using liquid Nitrogen you shouldn't wear socks/shoes as another tip that is really needed, makes spills far less dangerous.
Loving your videos!
instead of club soda... try 7-up. its actually pretty good... a little sweeter
If you could make that nitro mojito for 20 people at a time, it would be great!
wow, it didnt hit me that you still have embargo with cuba, you can get havana club in any shop (im in europe), still, i prefer using cane sugar over
Meanwhile in an alternate universe where binging with banish was a cocktail man
I'd call the Dave Arnold version an Impressionist Mojito.
how about chopping the mint and putting it
how about adding more mint instead of using liquid nitrogen
Love it!
Is it possible to freeze mint leaves in the freezer instead of using liquid nitrogen ?
Probably not, because the temperature difference is so enormous. Most household freezers are between 5° F and 0° F. Liquid nitrogen is -300° F.
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.
Do you know what pairs well with opossum sou vide
This is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone shake a mojito, am I the only one?
5:27 just look at the bottom as it disappears. So cool (no pun intended)
Benefits of living in Canada - all kinds of awesome Havana Club rum right at home!
God I love this.
Add some habenero to it it will change your opinion on mojitos big time the sweet and spicy mmmmmmmm amazing
Wow!!
We slap the mint to extract the oil
This guy had everything on his own kitchen
Thad Castle approves.
I always see the soda water added at the end and not at the beginning.
DUM - Daves Ultimate Mojito.
12oz Highball Glass Chilled and frosty
A nice rectangular ice block for the glass
Ingredients in a Boston shaker
50ml Carta Ora bacardi or similar gold rum
Half a fresh squeeze lime, throw the lime skin in the shaker
Dash of demerera sugar syrup to taste
15ml of liqueur de menthe verte
3 or 4 mint leaves
ice in the shaker tin
Heavy shake for 15 seconds and then double strain Into frosted glass with ice
Top with soda and garnish with fresh lime wedge and mint
Should have a similar result to the chemist cocktail in terms of the mint profiling.
Alternatively for a standard mojito use 500ml white rum and about 30 fresh mint leaves into a whip cream canister and then pressurize it with CO2 and leave in a fridge for a week. Upon releasing the pressure it will pull all of the mint oils out of the leaves giving you a minted rum. That can be used to speed build mojitos on a busy night. Make as much as you want at a time.
Source, high end bar manager for 8 years
You're forgetting the most important ingredient in the first version: Being surrounded by a sweaty crowd dancing to an Afro-Cuban jazz group.
I wonder if a bit of dry ice could do in lieu of the nitrogen? 🤔
There's a technique called blender muddling that gives similar results
@@CocktailChemistry wow thanks! I'll have a look at it! Mojitos are one of my fave drinks! Keep up the great work man! 😃👍
The biggest LN2 hazard is asphyxiation and it should've been covered. If you get 10l of LN2 spilled in a small unventilated room you could go toast quickly.
A friend and I spent Saturday trying different mojitos since we are in charge of serving cocktails at a party.. Seems like we might have to do another round of taste tasting, to uphold good scientific standards.
I'm here if you need more volunteers. The larger the sample size, the better.
Can you nitro lime zest and get the same effect?
Yeah I got a burn from liquid nitrogen. Left a scar behind. I work in a lab and use the protective gear but keep in mind this is liquid so if your equipment has a hole the liquid nitrogen will find it.
Yeah. Or just add 5 drops of high quality spearmint extract for baking lol. Like a bitters. It’s the purist of mint oil extraction.
Couldnt that be done with dry ice and nitrogen gas? Easier to get ahold of both and accomplishes the same thing.
That first mojito is a crime against humanity!!
1:23 lmao I was cringing too
Aren't you supposed to muddle lime, not extract the juice? And I thought it was supposed to be poured over crushed ice🙁🙁
Could you theoretically just freeze the mint in your freezer?
Have you ever cracked a glass cup when mixing a drink?
Club soda or soda water??
Mint is not common here in my country, so I'm replacing mint with creme de menthe. What do you think about that?
You'll want to pair back the sugar for sure
While I haven't tried that myself I think it won't replicate the mint 100%, because Creme de Menthe is, well, a cream. If you have it laying around, definitely try it, it may be quite good, but I think the drink will certainly be different.
Stirring the mint with the rum first is a good way to go the high alcohol content in the rum does a good job extracting the mint without over doing it.... not need to totally break down the mint to get those flavors let chemistry do the work for you
I was thinking the exact same. I have never muddled mint in anything but the rum.
Nice video but the claimed original is done a little different
Make the spanish galimocho
i once had a drink called a london mojito, gingerale instead of soda, pims instead of simple syrup and gin instead of rum, otherwise same construction
Carajo!
Brazilian Caipirinha, please!!
What about a spear mint simple syrup then no gross clogged straw? 🤷🏼♀️
Or make a mint-infused rum in advance and use that instead of normal rum
So Cuba ships Havana club to their Puerto Rico factory and ships it to the USA, I can go to the store and get it, super easy
Havana Club sold in US is made by Bacardi. They own the original recipe and name rights.
2nd version is best. no mint clogging crap!!
The Mojito we make at work was absolutely terrible. Its 4 spoons of sugar, lime and lime juice, mint, 4 cl of Havana Rum. Then you squash it and fill it up with crushed ice
You don't muddle in the soda water.
Why dont u clap the mint in the forst drink? It releases the oils of it, smells and tastes mich better
Last one is the Cyberpunk Mojito
You ought to not use soda in the mojito, it ends up tasting like cheap juice.
Instead, try using a darker rum that isnt spice. Bacardi 8 is good for this and not too pricey.
Use brown sugar instead of granulated sugar and do NOT EVER muddle mint, it breaks and tears and you lose a lot of flavour. Roll the sprig in your hand some, bash it like you did the garnish and add the leaves after you have muddled half a lime in the glass. (yes, two quarters of lime fruit should be in the glass with a barspoon of brown sugar). Use add your rum and then crushed ice. (we want it to smelt quickly and dilute with water instead of nasty soda) Get your barspoon and start stirring. Add ice as you need to and top off with cubes and a bouquet of mint. Dont forget to drag a piece of lime across the rim of the glass for the aroma.
You will end up with a brown mojito that has much more intense flavour.
60 mils of dark rum
brown sugar
half a quartered lime
crushed ice to dillute with
cubes for looks and volume.
Grant Thompson Disproved this don’t be so scared of Liquid Nitrogen
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* 😂
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
I love that technique with the liquid nitrogen I've read it on the "Liquid Inteligence" Very nice book for some home bartending techniques .
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
Looks like a green smoothie! 5:50 😆
That is what he said!
You should take your ring off when working with liquid nitrogen. Also take out any metal keys out of your pockets
This channel has me hooked.
I don't even drink