blue flames in little metal bowls
Feb. 14th, 2001 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
podlingOtherwise known as... "Maybe it'll taste better if we add..." Yet another
cooking mishap related story... just be glad I don't share all of them with
you. :)
So my roommate & I were making cake (again) and not following the directions as
we should have (double again) [1]. But I won't list why that happened, it all
turned out okay anyway. Instead, this is about afterward, when the cake was in
the oven and we were relaxing...
So then we're sitting there contemplating how vanilla smells good, but tastes
questionable by itself [2] and I mentioned that Drambuie (probably incorrect
spelling there) when reduced tastes really good, and would probably be good on
ice cream. So then we decide to light up some vanilla and see how that is. [3]
So we took a few tablespoons, put it in a metal bowl on a hot pad on the table
and lit it up. And it made lovely blue flames. Then when it's short lived
life flamed out, we tasted it. And it was (not too surprisingly) not very good
[4]. So we decide to add other alcohols to it, to see if that will improve the
taste.
First we addeed frangelico, which must taste pretty bad by itself, I'm
guessing. That doesn't light up at all, so we taste it, and it's still bad.
So then we add some malibu rum [5] and it also doesn't light. Strangely, this
had actually improved the taste, but not enough that one would really want to
drink it. So then Cara adds vodka [6] and we light it up, and it burns for a
good while. We watch, entranced. It was such a nice blue flame! Then it goes
out, and Cara burns her finger on the bowl. We decide to wait to taste it, get
impatient, and pour it over ice into another metal bowl.
Then we taste it. And it tastes *just* like rum & coke! Strange that. Of
course, neither of us like rum & coke... This would be the end, but the fact
is that we bottled it up for future use. Never know when you might need
something like that.
The end.
~Andrea
[1] You remember the story of the cake, I'm sure.
[2] Both of us have this strange urge to taste it once in a while, I know
we're not alone in this.
[3] Many people would have stopped at this point.
[4] Or this one, for that matter.
[5] On the theory that coconut *must* make everything better.
[6] Because vodka will catch on fire!
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i've been visualizing blue again...
cooking mishap related story... just be glad I don't share all of them with
you. :)
So my roommate & I were making cake (again) and not following the directions as
we should have (double again) [1]. But I won't list why that happened, it all
turned out okay anyway. Instead, this is about afterward, when the cake was in
the oven and we were relaxing...
So then we're sitting there contemplating how vanilla smells good, but tastes
questionable by itself [2] and I mentioned that Drambuie (probably incorrect
spelling there) when reduced tastes really good, and would probably be good on
ice cream. So then we decide to light up some vanilla and see how that is. [3]
So we took a few tablespoons, put it in a metal bowl on a hot pad on the table
and lit it up. And it made lovely blue flames. Then when it's short lived
life flamed out, we tasted it. And it was (not too surprisingly) not very good
[4]. So we decide to add other alcohols to it, to see if that will improve the
taste.
First we addeed frangelico, which must taste pretty bad by itself, I'm
guessing. That doesn't light up at all, so we taste it, and it's still bad.
So then we add some malibu rum [5] and it also doesn't light. Strangely, this
had actually improved the taste, but not enough that one would really want to
drink it. So then Cara adds vodka [6] and we light it up, and it burns for a
good while. We watch, entranced. It was such a nice blue flame! Then it goes
out, and Cara burns her finger on the bowl. We decide to wait to taste it, get
impatient, and pour it over ice into another metal bowl.
Then we taste it. And it tastes *just* like rum & coke! Strange that. Of
course, neither of us like rum & coke... This would be the end, but the fact
is that we bottled it up for future use. Never know when you might need
something like that.
The end.
~Andrea
[1] You remember the story of the cake, I'm sure.
[2] Both of us have this strange urge to taste it once in a while, I know
we're not alone in this.
[3] Many people would have stopped at this point.
[4] Or this one, for that matter.
[5] On the theory that coconut *must* make everything better.
[6] Because vodka will catch on fire!
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i've been visualizing blue again...
