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azurelunatic) wrote2012-09-08 04:44 am
azurelunatic) wrote2012-09-08 04:44 am
Experimental Mountain Dew vodka energy shots: putting the ... actually I won't name Him...
For some reason I thought this would be a good idea.
Materials:
6oz each of orange and lime jello
way too much caffeine and taurine powders, on reflection (I did measure them so I'd know what was up)
16oz boiling water
24oz each Mountain Dew (the good kind with real sugar) and citrus-flavored (in this case) vodka
Mixing vessel
Kettle
Fork
28 x 3oz paper cups
Dump powders in bowl. I should have mixed but I didn't. At first I was going to only use half the jello, but after adding the first bit of water, it was way too fucking bitter from the caffeine (a whole energy drink's worth of caffeine in 1 ~3oz shot is Not Recommended) so I went whole hog. (I used a fork for tasting - stir with fork, open mouth, hold fork well above mouth, don't prevent the brew from dripping off the tines into mouth, and there's a teeny-tiny taste of what's going on in the cauldron.)
I took the hot water straight from the kettle into the measuring cup, 8oz at a time, so all the powder dissolved in the hot water. I must thank the good folks from the Ultimate Jello Shot project for the Science!! so I could just sort of muddle along.
Next I added a 12oz can of Mountain Dew, and topped it off with vodka (4oz). Then I measured out 16oz of vodka. Then I realized that a) another 16oz would be a lot more vodka than I was figuring on, and b) I didn't have enough left in the bottle. So another can of Dew, and another 4oz of vodka.
I mixed it all up. Next the pouring. In ideal circumstances I'd have been doing this on a large work table, with a tray on which I'd lined up the cups and could just transfer smoothly to the refrigerator once I was done, perhaps a nice large sheet pan. However. My kitchen is first tiny and second generally a complete mess. I lined up a few cups at a time on a plate (to catch drips, mostly), then transferred them into the refrigerator one at a time. Before each round of pouring, I'd stir the bowl again, to avoid any case where something that was perhaps not quite evenly distributed might end up all in one cup (really not desired).
In the end I had 28 little shots all lined up. They're chilling right now. And then I did the math.
Each ~3oz serving (one shot is one serving) contains:
~114mg caffeine (discounting the caffeine that's coming from the Dew)
~90mg taurine
~.86oz Mountain Dew
~.86oz or vodka
Tomorrow's going to be *interesting*. (No, I'm not planning to have them all myself. That would be, how you say. VERY BAD IDEA.)
Materials:
6oz each of orange and lime jello
way too much caffeine and taurine powders, on reflection (I did measure them so I'd know what was up)
16oz boiling water
24oz each Mountain Dew (the good kind with real sugar) and citrus-flavored (in this case) vodka
Mixing vessel
Kettle
Fork
28 x 3oz paper cups
Dump powders in bowl. I should have mixed but I didn't. At first I was going to only use half the jello, but after adding the first bit of water, it was way too fucking bitter from the caffeine (a whole energy drink's worth of caffeine in 1 ~3oz shot is Not Recommended) so I went whole hog. (I used a fork for tasting - stir with fork, open mouth, hold fork well above mouth, don't prevent the brew from dripping off the tines into mouth, and there's a teeny-tiny taste of what's going on in the cauldron.)
I took the hot water straight from the kettle into the measuring cup, 8oz at a time, so all the powder dissolved in the hot water. I must thank the good folks from the Ultimate Jello Shot project for the Science!! so I could just sort of muddle along.
Next I added a 12oz can of Mountain Dew, and topped it off with vodka (4oz). Then I measured out 16oz of vodka. Then I realized that a) another 16oz would be a lot more vodka than I was figuring on, and b) I didn't have enough left in the bottle. So another can of Dew, and another 4oz of vodka.
I mixed it all up. Next the pouring. In ideal circumstances I'd have been doing this on a large work table, with a tray on which I'd lined up the cups and could just transfer smoothly to the refrigerator once I was done, perhaps a nice large sheet pan. However. My kitchen is first tiny and second generally a complete mess. I lined up a few cups at a time on a plate (to catch drips, mostly), then transferred them into the refrigerator one at a time. Before each round of pouring, I'd stir the bowl again, to avoid any case where something that was perhaps not quite evenly distributed might end up all in one cup (really not desired).
In the end I had 28 little shots all lined up. They're chilling right now. And then I did the math.
Each ~3oz serving (one shot is one serving) contains:
~114mg caffeine (discounting the caffeine that's coming from the Dew)
~90mg taurine
~.86oz Mountain Dew
~.86oz or vodka
Tomorrow's going to be *interesting*. (No, I'm not planning to have them all myself. That would be, how you say. VERY BAD IDEA.)
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