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Seriously, folks, mixing a Martini is a simple affair, and mastery of it is imperative.
- Fill a martini glass with ice and water (your guest is wondering what the HELL you are doing - pouring WATER into a glass)
- Pour a whole bunch of gin into a metal shaker (metal will make your liquids colder than a glass shaker.) use at least four ounces, that's two shots, just pour and move the bottle up and down like you're dribbling a basketball in slo-mo, and move your lips as if you're counting.)
- Put a handful of ice into the shaker, cover and begin shaking.
- Spear an olive with a toothpick and drop it into the ice water in the martini glass. ( a pickled cocktail onion to create a Gibson.)
- Dump the ice water out of the glass and pour in a splash of dry vermouth, you're holding the olive and toothpick in place with your, "hey pass me those nuts," pointer finger (your guest is aghast by this point - that's too much vermouth! Keep him guessing.) swish the vermouth around in the glass, and then dump that too. Make a big show of this - like your shaking a thermometer down - drain the glass - you only want to coat it with the vermouth.
- By this point, you should be shaking that shaker full of gin and ice like an amorous epileptic gorilla. Beat it up, bruise it, you're a bad man.
- Thanks to your preparations, The glass is cold and prepped, the olive is cold, and the gin is a few degrees above freezing. Strain it over the olive into the glass. What you see before you is a perfect martini you will have trouble handing it over to your guest.
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Easy Martini
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