most martinis/manhattens are only suppose to be 4oz. Beer is suppose to have head. I have a general rule to keep a distance from the top so I can move quickly. It is also there so people (bartenders, wait staff, & unsteady hand of the customer) don't have to move so very carefully due to a threat of spillage a vertically challenged 'person' would appear & club them at the knees.

Actually the jackasses that ask for the drink to be topped off deserve that. Typically they spill the second they get the drink.

Who knew @dystopianfuturetoday, @NetRunner and @blankfist were in a techno boy band? Now they're all old, smoke cigars, drink martinis, and get wrapped up in politics. How sad.

Yay! Valium & Xanax with her three martini lunch!

Bartender, there's hair and spit in my Martini

If James Bond and Wolverine are acting in a show, you turn off your damned phones. They can drop some epic level pain on you! *Shnik, shnik! with a dry martini!*

Yeah, like I used to hang with AnnieR. After two martinies, she was under the table. After three, she was under me!! Is that "libertarianism" or what?? It was certainly "social"!! Heh, heh, heh!

O.K., SORRY!!!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'James Cameron, Bill Paxton, 1988, Martini Ranch' to 'James Cameron, Bill Paxton, 1988, Martini Ranch, Reach' - edited by kronosposeidon

>> ^pipp3355:
logged in just to point out that this experiment is fundamentally flawed in several ways. i couldn't be arsed listing all of them but the two most basic are ridiculously small sample size and experimenter bias (not double blind).


That this was a flawed experiment was obvious to me before I even pressed play. After all, it says "Mythbusters" right in the title.

The problem with this is that they let the ice melt. If you drink it right away, the martini is not diluted.

I agree that the ice should be sifted. Since the debate seems to be the act of shaking...

Shaken martini stays cold longer too.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
>> ^residue:
Uh..If you let a bunch of ice melt in one and not the other one, of course it will taste different..

Yup, they should have sifted out the ice, and it would be a more fair test. Or at least done both the melting and the sifting.


Why? They made the martini's faithfully. If the difference between a shaken and stirred martini is that one is watered down, that's difference enough.

I guess people were expecting some more subtle mechanism, which might also be interesting to look for, but this result is unambiguously enough to confirm the difference between shaken and stirred martinis. If you want to test the difference between a stirred martini and a sifted, shaken martini then have at it. I'd be interested to see the results.

>> ^garmachi:
>> ^ReverendTed:
>> ^gorillaman:
Speaking of anal, this whole test is void because they're not tasting real martinis, which must have an odd number of olives.

But two is an odd number of olives for a martini.

This is the driest martini joke I've ever heard.


Indeed; quite a fine one he served up.

>> ^garmachi:
This is the driest martini joke I've ever heard.

With the possible exception of that one.

>> ^ReverendTed:
>> ^gorillaman:
Speaking of anal, this whole test is void because they're not tasting real martinis, which must have an odd number of olives.

But two is an odd number of olives for a martini.


This is the driest martini joke I've ever heard.

To quote Josiah Bartlett, "Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."

I've been working on my martini skills over the last couple of weeks since Mad Men has started back up.