Molecular soft drinks

Now molecular cuisine is gaining more and more popularity. It is interesting that this is an unusual kitchen, because liquid drinks here can be represented in a very unusual form. Starting from the spherical shape and ending with the structure in the form of jelly. Let's look at how to cook molecular soft drinks at home yourself. They will be in handy at children's holidays or at parties.

Molecular soft drinks are therefore called that they are prepared by an unusual method. If you decide to try these cocktails, then you will need components such as NA alginate and liquid nitrogen. For some drinks, kitchen appliances, such as a mixer, a siphon, are also used to gas cocktails. It will also be required to buy kitchen scales.

It does not hurt to make the purchase of some chemicals (dyes, food additives). And so that you get cocktails with caviar instead of liquid nitrogen, which is used by professional bartenders, you can use gelatin or agar-agar. Also, to obtain a persistent molecular foam on cocktails, soy lyceine will be needed. And then we will find out how to cook molecular cocktails without alcohol.

Molecular drinks - views

To start learning to cook molecular soft drinks is better from the simplest recipes. But if you really get carried away, then you can then try to make drinks more complicated, but for this you will need not only chemicals, but also some devices. These kitchen machines are useful not only for the preparation of molecular kitchen dishes, but also for other purposes. A mixer, for example, is used for many culinary masterpieces. So these household assistants will not interfere with you anyway.

What are molecular cocktails:

1. Layered drinks -They have been prepared for a long time and they are quite popular among many lovers of beautiful and delicious cocktails. The effect is created due to the neat process of filling the container with liquids with various density. Thus, in the end, a drink with flat layers comes out and these layers have a different color and texture. The top of such cocktails is decorated with foam. And the foam can already be created from the liquid and from solid foods.
2. Gelled cocktails - These cocktails are eaten with a spoon. They are prepared with alcohol and without. At home, gelatin for juices or agar-agar is used. To decorate the jelly use any berries and fruits.
3. Spherification drinks - Professional bartenders prepare cocktails of this type from the outside in the form of jelly, and there is a liquid inside. To do this, use xantan gum, calcium chloride, alginate Na. For example, you tried an olive that after you put it in your mouth burst, and you will feel an unusual taste for this fruit in the form of a drink. And for the supply of these drinks, small spoons are used. To make it beautiful, you can serve the sphere on a saucer and decorate with other products.
4. Molecular particles cocktails - Thanks to geluccal, you can increase the density of any juice, water, etc. Therefore, in the glass, as if with juice, different hard pieces of fruit or spherical caviar will look interesting and not to settle to the bottom. Well, to seal the drink, you can apply a small amount of gelatin.  

IMPORTANT: You can also use emulsification to create cocktails. This is a drink of foam shape. Interestingly, soy lecithin is used for this. This substance has the ability to mix liquids and fats. Thanks to the substance, you can even mix oil with the juice of their tomatoes.

And thanks to lecithin, you can create a magnificent foam. And if you also fill it with aroma, mixing lecithin with citrus juice, then a stable foam with an unusual taste and smell will come out. It can serve as an excellent decor for non -alcoholic cocktails.

Molecular kitchen - layered non -alcoholic drink

The culinary book of molecular cuisine grows in thickness. After all, there are more and more recipes for cooking dishes and drinks. Culinary and bartenders are experimenting and more and more records are obtained. Laying drinks also belong to this kitchen. Then we learn how to cook molecular soft drinks in layers.

In particular, find out how the milk drink with Machiato is preparing:

Components:

• Milk 2.5% - 145 ml.
• Expresso coffee - 75 ml. (2 tsp coffee + 75 ml. Water)

Process:

1. Milk should be divided into three portions. Take the container (glass) and carefully pour 1/3 of the cold drink there.
2. Heat the second part of the milk to 65-70 degrees. And beat the last part of the drink into a strong foam.
3. Pour the second layer into a high cocktail glass - hot milk.
4. Carefully put the foam upstairs.
5. At the very end, pour into the capacity of the expresso. Coffee will take the second layer.

IMPORTANT: Expresso is cooked in a coffee maker, if you do not have a coffee machine, then you can brew in a Turk. Coffee will turn out even tastier. To do this, they pour coffee on the bottom, heat a little on fire, and then fill the container with water. They put them on the stove and wait until the drink rises above the neck of the Turks, then remove the expresso so that the foam is settled. The process is repeated twice.

To make the cocktail look more interesting, the top, that is, foam, can also be decorated with a cinnamon or cocoa pattern.

Molecular gelled non -alcoholic cocktail

It is important to always use the right amount of fluid, especially in summer, so that there is no dehydration. And it is not necessary to drink one water. Refreshing juices and drinks are also taken into account. But molecular non -alcoholic drinks in the form of jelly are completely different. But they are loved, like a sweet dessert, not only adults, but also children.

Moreover, now alcohol is even added at all sorts of parties to jelly. It is interesting to eat alcohol with a spoon. But further, it’s not about that the dessert will be prepared without alcohol and for it you can use not only one juice and jelly, but also fruits, berries and other interesting products unusual for ordinary cuisine. Fantasy can be limitless.

Components:

• Orange - 4  pCS.
• Orange juice - 275  ml.
• Gelatin in the package - 175  g  jelly
• Water (hot) - 475 ml.
• Water (cold) - 175  ml.

Process:

1. Divide citrus fruits into halves, remove the pulp from the hemispheres and you can use them like juice.
2. Pour 475 ml into the container. Water and there, pour gelatin, mix the components well.
3. In a separate container, mix 275 ml, orange juice with cold water. Then you can mix this mass with gelatin and water.
4. Fill the orange hemispheres with a solution and put in a cold place, let the mass turn into jelly.

Serve the finished drink in the form of a lobster of an orange.

Molecular spherification drink

Spherification was first presented in 2003 at the Elbulli restaurant. Thanks to this process, you can prepare a variety of molecular soft drinks in unusual and beautiful form. To get the sphere, a certain liquid should be immersed in a solution with calcium. And after that, to catch the edible and juicy sphere from it.

Spheres with strawberry juice, with ground pepper

This unusual supply of juice from strawberries will appeal to both children and adults. When you take them in your mouth, they will simply explode and fill the receptors with a unique taste. In addition, the spheres can be decorated with chocolate mousses, biscuit desserts, etc. The main thing is to apply your imagination and use your knowledge.

Components:

• Strawberry juice - 225 ml.
• Sugar - 12 g
• Salt
• Gluconate Na
• Water - 1 liter
• Alginate
• A little ground pepper.

Process:

1. Prepare alginate water first. To do this, mix 275 ml in a container. water and 5 g of alginate. For cooking, use an electric blender. Then share the rest of the water, mix everything again. Put for five hours in a cold place until the bubbles come out.
2. Next, mix strawberry juice with NA gluconate.
3. Now create a hemisphere in a special form in alginate water.
4. For the process you will need about two minutes. You can hold more until the shell becomes dense.
5. Remove the sphere from the solution and place in a bowl of clean water, wash from the previous bath.
6. Then remove from the container and viteritis a neatly finished dish with a paper towel.

It remains only to place the dish on a spoon for serving and decorate with pepper. And if you want to save the product, lower the sphere in strawberry juice, then put in a cold place.

Blood molecular drink with sweet caviar

To get a refreshing drink, you need to mix juices, ice, lime and fruit with ice. Such molecular soft drinks will perfectly quench their thirst and refresh on a hot day in the summer. And so that, the cocktail is not like the rest, you can cook molecular caviar. It is made of any fruit juice. It is enough to add CA chloride, xanthan gum to the juice, and after an aqueous solution of alginate NA you will get yelch small eggs. There will be juice inside them, which is very tasty.

A refreshing drink - Sangria with fruits and molecular caviar:

• Gram water - 750 ml.
• A mixture of raspberry juice, strawberries - 750 ml.
• Apples - 3 pcs.
• Persian - 2 pcs.
• Lemon, lime - 1 pc.
• Brown sugar-1-2 tbsp.
• Ice.

Process:

1. Treat the fruits, or rather wash them, cut into slices, remove all the extra bones. Do the slices neat and small.
2. After above, sprinkle all the fruits with sugar.
3. Take the vessel and pour all the juices and water listed above there. And before serving to Sangria, add molecular caviar and fruits.

When you can pour into glasses right in them and add ice as desired.

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