Post #356836 by Trader Tiki on Wed, Jan 23, 2008 8:31 PM

In the interest of brevity, I'll keep tonight's results a touch brief.

The drink was a Cobra's Fang, which adds the element of mint flakes (next time, doing a chiffonade) within the drinks. The blender had a huge advantage here, and chopped up the mint eagerly, while the mixer still had mint in the same chunks I had ripped the leaves into.

The ice levels were very different tonight, which may be attributed to varying levels in ice... a scoop isn't always a 100% measuring tool. Again, a picture will be up on tradertiki.com within the next 2 days.

Again, the mixture seems to keep the intensity of the citrus and alcohol flavors. This may be attributed to very minute variations in measurement (same jiggers used for each), and slightly varying levels of ice. In a perfect world, I'd be able to work in alternate dimensions where the exact same scoop of ice was used with each, but, since I still haven't picked up a Quantum Physics textbook yet, parallel worlds are still outside of my scope.

I did a temperature measurement as well, and found that both drinks settled at a reasonably chilly 28F after two minutes.

Overall, I'm feeling that both pieces of equipment are earning their place in my bar. Of course, if I'm going to serve another pitcher of Cocoanauts, you're damned right that blender's staying.

Tomorrow night's test, the Painkiller! Lets see how that Coco Lopez whips into shape!

[edit: Changed coconut syrup to Coco Lopez]

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[ Edited by: Trader Tiki 2008-01-23 20:32 ]