Stupid Chemicals

We're going back in today to sort through these chemicals.  In the meantime, here's  a video using salt lime air to top a margarita

Paul Revere

The chemicals are here. The chemicals are here. Lord almighty the chemicals are here!

Now reality has set in....

I have on my desk at work a series of containers that have abbreviations for agar agar, acacia gum, soy lecithin, etc....  Now I've used soy lecithin before (see previous posts) but all this other stuff is overwhelming.  I cannot wait to get started but promised myself that I wouldn't start without my cohort who was unable to come in due to it being laundry day for him....  Wild, I know but some people actually do plan their lives around their laundry.  Me, I just buy more clothes....

Anyways, our first experiment is going to be with this orb do-hickey.  The chefs seem to think that making an orb with alcohol on the inside will be difficult, but we'll figure it out I'm sure.

Here's the thought - tequila and agave nectar orb topped with orange and lime zest.  I'm envisioning a slightly yellow orb on a spoon with orange and green shavings on top....  If we pull off the orb, then we'll top the whole thing with some salt "air".  

If it works, it will be the pre-dinner drink at our next Paradigm the Test Kitchen dinner.  If it doesn't, we'll do some fruit compressed with gin (using a cryovac dohickey) and call it a day.  But, we're hopeful..... Hasta manana

Excitement

The chefs are out of the country!  They've left their digital scale and a thermal mixer doo-hickey!

But, they locked up their agar agar, their calcium chloride and everything else.  So, we found this company that sells exactly what we were looking for in small portions so that you can easily experiment without having to buy 30 pounds of something from Dow Chemical.

The company is called DC DUBY and I've added a link here.  So our goal is to make a margarita orb similar to what you can see in the Paradigm videos.  Basically it will be a shell with a margarita on the inside.  You'd serve it on a spoon, drop it into your mouth and then bite down and instant margarita shot!

I keep checking the mail and the chemicals haven't arrived yet.  But, hopefully tomorrow everything does and we can evolve the concept of the ultimate margarita.