Happy Friday! I hope you’re enjoying the Winter Olympics as much as I am. I can’t get enough of them. It definitely helps I can have it on in the background all day, and then catch up later at night with what I’ve missed. Despite my affinity for the (in this case winter) Olympics, I will admit my annual longing to be somewhere warm has fully set it in. It doesn’t help that there is still over a foot of snow on the ground from the big storm we had two weeks ago. Mainly because after that went through, it got fuck ass cold.
With that in mind, I definitely wanted something to warm me up, or at least put my mind somewhere else. Also armed with another batch of chili crisp, I decided to try fat washing again, but this time I decided to try fat washing tequila and make a spicy margarita. I ended up using reposado instead of blanco because that’s what I had on hand. We’ll see how this experiment goes.
For ratios, I did 2 oz tequila and a teaspoon of chili oil and let that infuse for a number of hours. Scientific, I know.
Other than that it was an ounce of lime juice and triple sec to round out the drink.
It looks like a normal margarita, and it smells like a normal margarita, so upon first glance, it must be a duck a normal margarita. Though I can start to pick up some chili pepper spice smells.
Initially it also tastes like a normal margarita, but with a little chili oil flavor mixed in there, but that flavor quickly fades when confronted with mainly the lime juice and the triple sec. However, the spice does come through. You start to get a tingle on the palate from the chili oils. It plays very nicely with the regular margarita flavors at work. Also when you finish, the zing doesn’t stick around, it dissipates fairly quickly. Which I like. What I’m not so much a fan of is a slightly more noticeable oil coating I get. Im wondering if the properties of tequila take to the fat washing process different than gin does.
This was an interesting twist on a spicy margarita. I like it, but there may be room for improvement still. I’m wondering if blanco tequila would be better than the reposado. I think it’s definitelyt worth attempting to perfect for sure.
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Such BS about the Ukrainian luger DQ
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7044122/2026/02/13/olympics-vladyslav-heraskevych-helmet-ukrainian-appeal/
This weather is confusing the fuck out of the squirrels
It’s annoying that Scott Hansen still has to do some of that bullshit human-interest filler shit NBC has been spraying over its Olympics coverage forever.
Anyway. Since my air purifier has actually been poisoning me, does anyone have recommendations for a replacement?
Fuck!
I wish I had grown up with even the slightest interest in sports after watching this kid. What a G
Wait, how is your air purifier poisoning you?
I use one of the Coway Airmega HEPA filters, that’s been working well for me
Tons of sulfur in the air where you are. That Conway is doing some heavy lifting.
beats the gambling ads they make him do on redzone at least
The rest of that sushi made a great lunch
Mixed fried fish tonight at my favorite seafood place
The Australians take gold in women’s snocross, or whatever they call it, which is fitting since it’s a sport that rewards taking any edge you can and Australians are all descended from Irish criminals.*
*some of them may have been Welsh
One of the younger attorneys is asking me for advice. I answered two of his requests and on the third said “it’s Friday, I’m thinking about beer, go read the statute I gave you”
And that’s how you mentor.
He actually followed up with another question.
My response “This is a problem for Monday You.”
They’ll hump your leg all night if you let ’em
If I were a Chinese skeleton racer I would absolutely paint ‘Yellow Peril’ down both sides of my sled and then dead-ass stare at the post-race interviewer while they tried to find a way to ask me about it without getting fired.
“What I’m not so much a fan of is a slightly more noticeable oil coating I get.”
/pushes glasses up
I think it might be because it sounds like you are skipping the step when you freeze the solution and skim the congealed fat off the top of it.
https://www.seriouseats.com/science-fat-washing-spirits-cocktails-how-fatwashing-works
Oh I did do that part. I think it imparted more than what I was expecting.
Ah. Well, per the article:
“Freezing the spirit solidifies the fat and makes it easier to strain, but it’s very unlikely you’d be able to strain out every bit of the fat. There probably wouldn’t be enough fat left to affect calorie counts, but even a small amount of dissolved oils could affect mouthfeel.”
Maybe you need some liquid nitrogen or dry ice to really get it cold enough to strain out more of the oil.
I was kinda geeking out on how an alcohol molecule has both “water loving” and an “oil loving” sides, and how both are able to pull flavors out of water and oil based liquids.
Man, I’m just gonna open a can of beer.
Yeah, I ain’t no fancy-pants scientist.
Reminds me of a story my father used to tell. He’s at Larry’s Package Store, (long gone) (pours out a 40), in Waterbury, CT, which was a dump. Guy is in there asking Larry whether he should get the red wine or the white wine.
Keep in mind that this is Larry’s, and neither the red nor the white is probably fit for human consumption.
Nonetheless, Larry is game for some advice so he says “Well, depends on your meal. Are you having meat or fish?” and the guy responds “nah, I just wanna get drunk” and Larry, without missing a beat says “ah, go with the red.”
Waterbury, CT, folks. The Brass City at its finest.
I used to work in the beer & wine section of Whole Foods way back in the day, and remember being asked which red wine would go best with Sprite.
Anything cheaper than Turning Leaf?
Well?
Which one?
/holding can of Sprite, looking confused
Anything Spanish
https://bsky.app/profile/ryanday.bsky.social/post/3meqw7zckx225
the tits can borrow some of AEW bald chants now
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-E8CBvV071w
Bald guys with full beards always remind me of those Wooly Willy things with the magnetic pencil shavings.
If they weren’t for the black guys I’d say it looks like the collage of “every maga reply guy.”
I absolutely cannot wait to drink tonight.
BOY HOWDY
I couldn’t sleep due to work stress, started at 6 AM. Currently in a meeting where I’m going to be asked to take on someone else’s stuff (they’re overly busy, you see, unlike EVERYONE) and I’m trying to manifest my Diet Pepsi into Everclear.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
I had my monthly meeting with my boss and told him I was going to finish 4 tasks today, and the second I finished them, be it 1 pm or 5 pm, I was done for the week.
Naturally I’ve since had like 8 people call me, because that’s what attorneys do on a Friday: call their opponent, lob the problem back into their Court, then mark their task ‘done’
Well joke’s on you, assholes, because I’m calling every single one of you back and hat problem is gonna stay your problem.
I’m taking a few weeks off drinking so….jelly
dry February the thinking mans choice instead of dry january
Yeah it’s a shorter month.
My stoopid liver has made me take several YEARS off the drank….so also jelly
You can always get a new liver, just ask Mickey Mant…OK, bad example.
Larry Hagman got two!
Pat Summerall, gor a new one and picked up right where he left off.
A goddamn inspiration.
I still giggle when I read the word “fatwash”..
I feel like it’s the universe reminding me to shower
Yup. & then i see this in my minds eye:
I’m going to plop my flubber in the bathtub, like a fucking manatee!