FRIDAY NIGHT TIP: MAKE PINK VODKA IN THE DISHWASHER

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the food lovers of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: flavored vodka from the dishwasher.

Training to become a liquorist takes years to learn everything about spirits. And making your own liqueur? Then you first need to know everything about percolation and distillation, and learn the difference between infusion and maceration. Or: you just put a bottle in the dishwasher.

Apparently, it's a trend among American youth to create new boozy inventions with candy and drinks. Take those sour mat vodka ice pops and the famous jell-o-shots. Next level: dissolving candy in spirits, because then it gets a nice sweet chemical flavor and a fun color.

Bright pink vodka
Damion Styles shows on Facebook how he does it. And that clever guy has figured out to involve his dishwasher in the process. He takes a few sips of vodka from the bottle, then fills it up with those chemical white-pink candies that are apparently called ‘squashies’, screws the cap on tightly, and lets the bottle run a cycle. Result: all the candies dissolved, the vodka is bright pink and now tastes exactly like those candies.

That could be better
Those white-pink candies aren't even a party without 40 percent alcohol, so it seems to me that Damion's recipe could be improved. Why not add a handful of coffee beans and some brown sugar to the drink bottle, and then run a cycle with plates and cutlery? I think you would then have a sort of Tia Maria. Licorice, would that dissolve? And what would the effect be with orange peels, a piece of ginger, and sugar? This calls for thorough follow-up research.

Text: Favorflav