Favorite Martini

[johnnie]

I know what a "real" Martini is, but things seemed to have changed. How do you like a Martini to be made?
I personally just like it shaken, then dirty with olive juice and some olives thrown in. No, no vermouth, but I call it a Martini anyway..so there!
How about you?

[Left Is Write]

1. I like one made with Grey Goose vodka.

[XNASA]

2. Ketel One, Up, Very Dry, Shaken, Dirty with a Bleu Cheese stuffed Olive

Boy, does that sound good right about now.

[johnnie]

5. Oh yeah...

I stopped over my brother's house on Sunday and he made me one with the Bleu cheese stuffed olive. My first one...and I had to have another. And yeah..it does sound good right about now.

[eyesroll]

3. I like 'em dirty too.

Bombay Sapphire and Hendricks both make good dirty martinis.

I'm pretty well a purist -- there is the martini, which features gin, vermouth and olives. There is the vodka martini. There is the gibson and dirty variations of both.

Everything else is a cocktail. And those chocolate cocktails can be quite lovely, but they're not martinis.

[leftofthedial]

4. pour two ounces of good gin in a glass

whisper "vermouth" over the top of the glass.

drop in either a couple of big honking olives or a couple of cocktail onions on a toothpick (a plastic sword will also work).

Enjoy!

[johnnie]

7. Ha

Whisper "vermouth", that's funny..I'll have to do that for now on.

[Crankie Avalon]

10. Actually, I saw in some movie...

...where Jerry Orbach was playing some character who said the way to make the perfect martini was to pour the vermouth in the glass by itself, swirl and then spill it out so only the residue is left coating the inside of the glass, AND THEN pour the gin in from the decanter you used to shake the gin and strain the ice out of.

Maybe you'd want to try that?

[XNASA]

11. I do that sometimes when I'm making just one.

[leftofthedial]

12. you mean put something in my gin that isn't gin!?!??!!?

you'd have me put ICE and vermouth residue BOTH in my gin!?!??!!!?

What is wrong with you!?!??!?!???

:toast:

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Ouch!

I liked drinking them when I was a "young man about town", but I'd get the worst hangovers from them.

Shaken, with vermouth, straight up, with a twist...if I was still drinking them.

[sniffa]

8. i Like it dirty

but not tooooo dirty as i found out the hard way.

i usuaLLy ask for stoLi, dirty, and extra oLives. i shouLd try grey goose though.

[bobbobbins]

9. an extra dirty goose

rocks my world, got trashed on em last night

[paula777]

13. LOL, I only dirty it with olive juice when I run out of vermouth