237: Alcohol!

[Packbat]

Seriously, that's the name of the page in the archive, it's too perfect.

Anyway: my college boardgaming friend makes a Long Island Iced Tea which is entirely similar in effect to this. It tastes like a delicious sugary confection, except that five minutes later you're incapable of speaking coherently enough to tell a joke. Good stuff.

[Tailsteak]

I generally find that the more types of alcohol you put in something, the less you can taste it, especially after the first swallow.

Jamie, of course, possesses superhuman cooking abilities, which do extend to bartending. If he really wanted to, I'm sure he could serve you a full-strength dirty martini that tasted like Evian.

[Merle]

I wonder whether setting it on fire significantly decreased the alcohol content...
I vote that someone try this out, and that that someone not be me because it will wind up with the kitchen in flames.

[Globus]

Obviously it would. In most alcoholic drinks, alcohol is the only flammable ingredient (in the state it is in in the drink).

[pumpkincat]

Depends on how long he kept it on fire. If he let it burn out on its own, then it will burn off much (though usually not absolutely all) of the alcohol. If he doused it (for flaming alcoholic drinks in bars, usually they are doused, or otherwise prepared in layers so that there is a nonalcoholic layer between the top layer and whatever other layers - think of it being like oil and water, with the oil floating on top of the water) it will burn off until it runs out of the top layer for the most part.

I'm not skilled enough to layer drinks. I've tried but I don't have the knack, and thus my mixed drinks tend to be less layered and a trifle more contiguous.

Either way, whether through cooking or burning, there will be a little bit of alcoholic content left in the dish or glass, just vastly reduced. Judging by Max ending up on the floor that fast, I'm going to guess Jamie doused it. The usual dousing method is cupping, and works the same way as a candle snuffer - while the fire might still have fuel, it loses all oxygen suddenly.

[pumpkincat]

Seriously, that's the name of the page in the archive, it's too perfect.

Anyway: my college boardgaming friend makes a Long Island Iced Tea which is entirely similar in effect to this. It tastes like a delicious sugary confection, except that five minutes later you're incapable of speaking coherently enough to tell a joke. Good stuff.

Recipe, recipe!

[Packbat]

Seriously, that's the name of the page in the archive, it's too perfect.

Anyway: my college boardgaming friend makes a Long Island Iced Tea which is entirely similar in effect to this. It tastes like a delicious sugary confection, except that five minutes later you're incapable of speaking coherently enough to tell a joke. Good stuff.

Recipe, recipe!

I forgot completely - I'm enough of a lightweight that I haven't asked to try it again after the first experience. If I remember to ask him and he acquiesces, I'll post it here.

[digitrev]

Regarding Jamie's booze math...

We are given the following:

• Vodka - 40% - 1 cup (250 mL)
• Tequila - 40% - 1 cup (250 mL)
• Wine cooler - 10% - volume not given, assume 1.5 cups (375 mL)
• Everclear - percent not given, assume weaker version at 75.5% - a few (assume 3) tablespoons (45 mL)
• No further liquids listed, assume that none were added.

The total volume is (250+250+375+45) mL = 920 mL.

The total volume of alcohol is (250*.4 + 250*.4 + 375*.1 + 45*.755) mL = 271 mL.

Then this works out to a drink with 29.5% alcohol. This is roughly the equivalent of drinking undiluted schnapps, or very slightly mixed Jagermeister.

[Globus]

That's a lot of assumptions (especially the last one, Jamie's sentence did end with "..."). I guess it can be anywhere between, say, 25% and 35%.

EDIT: I've ended a sentence with 7 non-alphanumerical characters. Gotta be a personal record, especially since I don't stack ?s or !s.

[Packbat]

Arguable - by some definitions, an ellipsis is one character.