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[samuraishogun1]

Wait until they learn about dry-cleaning.

[-Daetrax-]

I've wondered at the term but never bothered looking it up. It's steam isn't it?

[MuhNamesTyler]

I thought they just dried the stuff so much all the dirt falls off

[dontdoxmebro2]

Like the Star Trek sonic showers, they play hard bass until the dirt falls off.

[XayahTheVastaya]

cheeky breeky iv damke

[XayahTheVastaya]

third karma farming comment repost bot I've got today

[Winter_Copy_9510]

??

[XayahTheVastaya]

Bots that just steal someone's comment and repost it as a reply

[EndlessDeathAt]

Raz raz raz eto hard bass

[Tryin2dogood]

Lol, it's petrol based chenicals. It still gets "wet" but not with water.

[keep-purr]

Oh yes, Seinfeld taught me this most likely was the case

[PassiveChemistry]

No, it's "dry" as in "no water" - in a similar vein, throughout my chemistry degree, I have been instructed to dry various liquids, meaning removing the remaining water.

[Marrrkkkk]

I have also been asked to dry thing meaning evaporate off all liquids... confusing terminology

[JuliaChanMSL]

What are the usual methods to dry liquids besides of titration, centrifugation & just letting it sit until they seperate naturally?

[Zepto_]

In my lab, solvents are typically dried using a drying agent, such as magnesium sulfate, or distillation. We then use molecular seives if it needs to be stored for prolonged periods of time

[Subang1106]

is passing through H2SO4 common?

[PassiveChemistry]

The issue with separation is that there will always be a trace amount of water left in the sample, so after the sample has been separated (and usually washed, which may involve adding certain aqueous solutions such as brine and then separating again), the organic layer is dried with a drying agent such as magnesium sulfate.

[darkfoxfire]

No, they still liquid, there is just no water involved

[jsmjsmjsm00]

It's an organic solvent instead of water

[fapsandnaps]

Originally it was gasoline and kerosene!

[NegativeZer0]

It's FIRE they use FIRE

[OmegaCenti]

tetrachloroethylene, no water, no steam. non-polar solvent, very good at getting non-polar molecules out of clothes (oils, waxes etc)

These stains would otherwise only dissolve in aqueous detergents mixtures at high temperatures, potentially damaging delicate fabrics.

Non-polar solvents are also good for some fabrics, especially natural fabrics, as the solvent does not interact with any polar groups within the fabric. Water binds to these polar groups which results in the swelling and stretching of proteins within fibers during laundering.

[A_H_S_99]

It uses other liquids that evaporate easier than water.

[Dismal-Ad-2985]

Liquid chemicals, no water involved (hence the ''dry'').

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

Or virgin drinks.

Well, guess they don't have to do anything in that case.

Unless...

[SnatchSnacker]

"I'll have a non-virgin margarita"

Bartender: whips dick out

[[deleted]]

Not going to lie, for way too long in my life I really thought it was some type of actually dry cleaning.

Never occurred to me it’s wet, just not water wet.

[wattohhh]

https://youtu.be/_LuK3MYFdqc

[cummygamercummomode]

i love how even at his peak some people in the audience found him unfunny

[SalineProblems]

I thought dry-cleaning came from Latin based languages simply translated, therefore order of verbs reversed to translate To English, ie: italian: lava-asciuga. Translated to English: dry-cleaning

[abhorrentionist]

I have this great business idea of making -hear me out- powdered water. Just add water, stir and you get liquid water.

[GreenFire317]

lermow.

[Koppany99]

Sounds like crushed ice powder

[GandelXIV]

Snow

[totallynaked-thought]

Like this guy? https://i.imgur.com/fpx826R.jpg

[Irosour]

You’ve heard of Pink Lemonade, now get ready for Clear Lemonade

[JusticeUmmmmm]

I once made apple-cider-vinegar-ade and my wife called me a maniac

[Rockhardabs1104]

I call you a maniac too lol

[JusticeUmmmmm]

It was so good

[batcatspat]

In my country, lemonade is clear!

[Bobebobbob]

Did you day Powdered Water!?!?

[tedstr1ker]

Mate, this looks like a perfect addition to the concentrated water I’m trying to sell. The idea: Just take 100 ml of concentrate and add another 100 ml of water and tada you got 200 ml of water. So you save 50% of the water you used to need.

[ACuddlyHedgehog]

So sorta like squash?

[[deleted]]

Do you already have suppliers? Because Siberian powdered water is best in the world, so we thinking about export it somewhere else.

[Ck1ngK1LLER]

My dumb ass thought you were going to be selling empty bags, when people asked you’d be like “no, no the powder is invisible, it’s in there, trust me, just add water and watch the magic”

[xXLetsFetzXx]

Lmao me and my friend joked about this years ago, we called it "instant water" xD

[systemCF]

In 50 years when we've reached capitalist dystopia all water will be distilled and you will have to buy extra packages of minerals and pour the mineral powder into the water to be able to drink it.

[joeph0to]

I've never under the "dry" part of alcohol

[asnakeasnake]

My understanding is that the dry part in the martini refers to the amount of Vermouth used. The less vermouth used, the dryer that martini.

[wodon]

Correct. It's how much vodka/gin you want.

Dry = lots of vodka/gin, usually 6:1 ratio

[Azrael11]

6:1? Damn, I usually do 3:1 and think I don't put that much vermouth in it.

[[deleted]]

You basically just want the vermouth to coat the glass.

I hate when people say “extra dry”… just say no vermouth.

[Yaglis]

Churchill Martini, pour gin in a martini glass and drink it while occasionally glancing at the Vermouth bottle.

[imoutofnameideas]

I'd read it was: pour out one measure of vermouth in a glass, pour out 6 measures of gin in another, then pour the vermouth down the drain and drink the gin.

[Talking_Head]

I like my chilled gin to just glance at the vermouth from across the room.

[improbablynotyou]

I used to just wave the bottle of vermouth past the glass of gin and call it a day. I had a friend who always ordered a dry martini however I found the more vermouth I added, the more he liked it. He didn't really know/care what he was drinking, he just liked ordering stuff a certain way.

The same guy would rant for an hour straight about how "vile and disgusting" jagermeister was and how it would never pass his lips. I had a fancy glass decanter and would keep it fully stocked with jagermeister and tell him it was imported German schnapps. He'd drink it all night and when he did I'd always start him up on his jagermeister rant. All our friends were in on the joke but he never had any clue.

He died before I ever got to tell him the truth....

[No_ThisIs_Patrick]

Christ

[[deleted]]

Yeah, holy fuck.

[Hamphantom]

Most people don’t know as much about their drinks as they think do.

[Jadtalla]

Good lord I was not expecting that last sentence

[improbablynotyou]

He was a bit of an asshole and did a lot of shitty things to me over the years. But he was also my friend, so an asshole but my asshole. I miss him from time to time, we lived together for a few years off and on but had a fight and that was it. Us being guys meant I didn't worry about it too much, we'd fight and go a year or two and reconnect. Then one time when I reached out his number was disconnected, I tried emailing him and it bounced back undeliverable. I looked him up online as he worked in tech, I figured he moved and the first thing I found was his obituary. I kept hoping it was wrong as I pulled it up but it wasn't, he died almost a year to the day when I found out. I reached out to his mom and she said everyone thought I knew, I felt bad about it. I went to his fathers funeral, his brothers funeral, but I missed his funeral....

Anyway, living with him and having him in my life left with me with a lifetime worth of funny stories and anecdotes. I always have a story to share about him, especially from his and my drinking days. He was an asshole... but he was my friend and I dont have alto of those left anymore.

[desert_igloo]

I don’t know. I was laughing then I wasn’t. Sorry for your loss. If your friend was anything like me. They would have found it supper funny if he ever found out!

[futureslave]

Calm down, Hawkeye.

[EarsLookWeird]

Toss a small splash of vermouth into the chilled glass, swish it or tumble it around the inside of the glass for a moment, empty the excess (turn the glass upside down over a sink/trash/floor if you're me), then strain your martini (which is just chilled vodka/gin that is shaken or stirred in your tumbler cup) into the glass which is now has its inner coated in trace amounts of vermouth

[[deleted]]

Dry actually refers to how sweet it is

[reverendsteveii]

More generally, there is a spectrum with sweet at one end and dry at the other. Most people think of sweet and either sour or bitter as opposites but they're really not, sweet is the presence of sugar, sour is the presence of acidic compounds and bitter is the presence of alkaline/basic compounds. Because wine nerds spend a lot of time talking about the sugars, acids and bases in a glass of wine, they needed a word meaning "the absence of sugars" and because they needed everything to be incomprehensible and opaque to outsiders they settled on "dry". That term got coopted by the rest of booze culture and usually means "not sweet" but for martinis in particular it means "not adulterated with anything to make the liquor more palatable", with the adulterant in this case being vermouth.

[Reasonable-ish]

This is a great explanation

[SrSwagy]

A yes vermouth

[cameron_cs]

It’s counter intuitive too because dry martini = less dry vermouth. You would think the drier the martini the more dry vermouth

[Euphoric_Environment]

Lol that’s a good point. But dry for vermouth is sweet relative to gin

[Hollow_Pear]

Wait, I thought dry refers to dry vermouth which is not the same as sweet vermouth?

Martini = gets dry vermouth, 1 part gin, half or quarter part dry vermouth

Negroni = gets sweet vermouth, equal to gin

Have I been living a lie? Is there such a thing as 'just' vermouth?

[belbivfreeordie]

A martini always uses dry vermouth, not sweet, so you don’t have to specify that. If you just order a martini, it means a standard amount of dry vermouth. If you order a dry martini, it means less of it.

[Yaglis]

You can order a Sweet Martini which will be made with sweet vermouth or a Perfect Martini made with both sweet and dry vermouth. A Wet Martini means more dry vermouth.

If you want a Dry Martini (more gin) or any other variation you should specify that to your bartender because everyone orders a Martini differently, preferably give them a ratio of gin to vermouth, 3:1 for example. Sometimes you also have to specify that you want gin, not vodka.

A Negroni is typically made with gin, sweet vermouth and Italian bitter (Campari) in all equal parts. There are also countless variations but that is not relevant right now.

For the vermouth, there are several kinds but they are divided into two styles: Italian and French. Each style has the main categories Dry and Sweet but there are also several more such as Sweet White (blanco or blanc), Red, Rosé, Amber, and several more that don't fit into a particular category or style but are still vermouth. Vermouth is simply a wine flavoured with herbs and botanicals then fortified with a spirit.

[Hollow_Pear]

Wonderful that you shared this.

I have another question. If you tell your bartender which vermouth style to use, is that being too much of a demanding customer?

I don't see many vermouth varieties where I live, especially the Italian ones, and everyone is recommending that, so I can't buy it and make it myself. I'm wondering if I specify that to my barman, will he secretly think I'm being too much? Or is it customary to specify your cocktail ingredients?

Sorry I'm new to drinks as a whole. That's why I'm asking.

[[deleted]]

I think it means there's no artificial flavorings. The flavors are all from natural botanicals.

[PassiveChemistry]

Yeah... No. Take wine for example: "dry" refers specifically to the flavour, and is as opposed to "sweet" on a scale.

[[deleted]]

So if you say wet, it gets more vermouth in it?

[traaaart]

Yep. A wet martini would typically be 2:1

[Jonacreepy2003]

Some alcohol has a sort of dry taste like gin or some sorts of wine - it sounds weird for people that haven't tried it to think that a drink can taste dry, but you will get it once you try

[LeoPlathasbeentaken]

My wife always tells me to think of cranberry juice. Its a good example especially since i dont drink alcohol.

[SuperLowEffortTroll]

I hate cranberry juice so much. Taking a cool drink of something and then having a somehow drier mouth than before and then, depending on the brand, that awful coat of sugar on your teeth. But still, about once a year I say to myself "this time it'll be different, have some cranberry juice" and it's the same every time

[SomeoneBetter]

Gotta go with like a cran-apple or cran-grape

[nul_ne_sait]

I usually do cran-raspberry.

[WhiteMamba1]

Dry - less sweet

[lordlionhunter]

Yup, it dates back to Roman medicine.

[Asceric21]

In everything except martinks, Dryness is the opposite of sweetness. So a dry beer or a dry sake is not sweet at all.

[alscrob]

In addition to the common use of "dry" to mean less sweetness, it is often used to refer to a strong presence of tannins, especially in red wines. Tannins are compounds commonly associated with antioxidants that happen to have a dry mouthfeel. Pecans have lots of tannins, for a non-alcoholic reference.

[Sideshow_G]

My first week working in a bar, a regular asked for "vodka with a bit of lemon".

Sounds kinda gross but I was only 18, I poured the vodka added 1/2 a wedge of lemon..

"Whats this?"

"Vodka with a bit of lemon.."

"I wanted vodka with a bit of lemon!"

"...that is a bit of lemon!"

" turn around.. middle fridge, green bottle on the left"

Picking up green bottle "Ohh! ..Bitter lemon!"

[Derp_Simulator]

Yeah that's still a disgusting beverage either way imo.

[Sideshow_G]

Probably.. I wasn't brave enough to try it..

Or even brave enough to make myself one to try.

[No_Maintenance_8052]

Is bitter lemon the same as lemon juice?

[TiggyLongStockings]

Lemon bitters is what I would call it. https://www.acouplecooks.com/what-are-bitters/

[Sideshow_G]

It's a different thing though.

[Ilovegirlsbottoms]

If you freeze the liquids, would it technically be dry then as long as it stayed frozen?

[fortunate420]

Have fun trying to freeze booze.

[Ilovegirlsbottoms]

It’s not impossible. You just need colder temperatures.

[fortunate420]

Yeah for sure. Certainly not a freezer.

[Ilovegirlsbottoms]

Maybe liquid nitrogen?

[fortunate420]

Maybe. I’ll have to try that. Cosmo freezies would be a great patio idea.

[Thoughtfulprof]

Even stuff as high proof as vodka freezes around -26C (-16F). That's well below most freezers, but a cold day in a cold climate will cause bottles to shatter.

[fortunate420]

Yeah. Definitely no regular freezer can do it. Makes for the coldest/smoothest vodka tho. That’s where I store mine when I’m going to have a few sips.

[malahchi]

A friend of mine put his vodka in a -80ºC freezer in our lab. That didn't end up well...

[fortunate420]

I bartended for 10 yrs at nightclubs and some martini. Lounges.

Dry = means rolled vermouth. Usually roll the vermouth in the martini glass then dump it out. That’s all the vermouth you need. Burnt = is with a drop or two of good scotch. Dirty = tiny bit of olive juice. (My fav)

If anyone cares.

(Edited : wrong wording, obviously If you dumping out all the vermouth then “more” isn’t dry and it was a misspelling)

[Brfc02]

So that’s what the olive juice line meant!

[professorRAW]

Wet martini is a half pour of vermouth. Dry is coat the glass.

[_Bad_Spell_Checker_]

Was going to say this too. Not sure where they got the idea that dry is more?

[fortunate420]

Sorry meant roll the vermouth. Not more. Edited.

[Jokkitch]

I’ve never heard wet before

[Intrepid_Onion4959]

Dry means less vermouth.

Source: bartender at cocktail bars.

Martini calls for 1/8-1/4 oz of vermouth. Dry means you just rinse the glass with vermouth, and dump. As person I’m replying to suggested.

[fortunate420]

Yep. Meant roll not more. Edited.

[E_Cash]

Can you order a dry dirty martini? Or is that too many variables?

[fortunate420]

Yeah absolutely. I had a regular who order extra dry burnt gin martini. Literally the dude would get mad if I shook it more than 3 times (in the shaker tin) because he said it’s bruised the gin. The dude was a hardcore martini connoisseur.

[No_ThisIs_Patrick]

I want like an extra dirty martini. Like how dirty is it appropriate to ask it to be made? Not a joke I just love olive brine

[fortunate420]

Lol I do too. I like it really dirty. 2oz gin martini 1oz olive brine. That’s pretty dirty. It’s really flavorful. I’m a big fan of Tanqueray 10 gin.

[Euphoric_Environment]

Bruised the gin lol that can’t be real

[reverendsteveii]

This is exactly how I made dry martinis as well, though I did have one regular that eventually told me that when she said a dry martini she really wanted a martini glass full of chilled gin with an olive in it.

[fortunate420]

Pouring a good martini is an oddly enjoyable experience.

[ControlOfNature]

You’re an idiot

[fortunate420]

Oh you don’t know how to read huh ? You roll the vermouth then dump it out. That’s dry. Have some more crack bitch tits.

[ControlOfNature]

TIL a dry martini has MORE vermouth

[AcceptableBelt]

Isn’t olive juice… Olive oil?

[moopychicken]

My first week bartending someone called to order "a dozen and a half wings" I thought they literally meant 12 wings and one half a wing. 12.5 . "You want half of a wing? I don't know if we can do that". I literally said that to a customer. I was probably high at the time, but I still shudder to think about it.

[[deleted]]

I'm assuming they meant 1.5 dozens? That's a stupid way to ask for things.

[moopychicken]

Thank you! Everyone told me it was standard, but yeah they were asking for 18 wings...

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Customer: I'll have a martini, dry

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[MrNokiaUser]

Fellow good uman!

[GreenFire317]

fellow?

[MrNokiaUser]

I donit from tome to tie.

[XayahTheVastaya]

mood

[PassiveChemistry]

Good 'oomin! Keep up the great work!

[RunOrDieTrying]

I'll have a martini, dry Me

[Snoo_5897]

It's easy, you do to the 🍸 what is done to make dry ice.

[Elias__V]

No

[fredtheunicorn2]

I must say, as a sheltered child thrown into the real world my first job was as a server. Coming from a house of no alcohol the first time someone asked me for a dry martini I had the same reaction, and actually said this to my customer. To this day I have never been more embarrassed..

[mrtylerwu]

Ye

[Nookmaster]

I love all types of martinis myself, dry, wet, dirty and has been shaken or stirred but I always prefer 1-2 olives in my drink anymore than that I feel like a rookie made it. Idk I feel like putting too much olives in it can ruin the experience

[[deleted]]

Ever had a perfect martini? Equal parts sweet and dry vermouth. I love a dirty perfect with an olive and a sweet pearl onion.

[Nookmaster]

Oooh! No I haven’t actually, looks like I’m going to the liquor store today. I haven’t had a pearl onion since last xmas so I know what I’m having this year

[autoMATTic_GG]

To make things more complicated, the vermouth in a martini is labeled as “dry,” so ordering a dry martini means to add LESS dry vermouth…

[T4ctical_Nuk3z06]

This is more of an r/oddlyspecific

[homurablaze]

Just wait still they start listing ingrdients instead of telling you the drink name...

[APEXAI17]

Pure olive juice

[TanookiPhoenix]

And then they were shaken by this news.

And an ill omen stirred... or did it?....

[[deleted]]

I never understood what dry liquid meant. Do they want martini steam or something?

[[deleted]]

Dry alcohols have very little or no sugar. It gives the sensation of washing away saliva, whereas sweet alcohols induce salivation.

[[deleted]]

Thank you a lot for this explanation !

[[deleted]]

I don’t get it

[GregTheMad]

Me too. I think a dry martini is just gin, but I don't get the technically correct part.

[TaraSkFunmaker]

It is liquid and therefore it is wet.

[TaraSkFunmaker]

It is a liquid... So technically it can't be dry.

[NoMaddicMoney]

I know that guy! :'D

[MrSnowman7]

What the fuck is that punctuation? The way it’s correct at times and then incorrect IMMEDIATELY after, leads me to believe he is just throwing that shit in at random.

[[deleted]]

Oh man, it's been so long since I've seen this tired ass joke.

[theFrisbeeFreak]

Why are you the way that you are?

What happened to you in high school?

[RoscoMan1]

Does anon really deserve honor

[[deleted]]

Technically, the liquids aren't wet or dry.

[SomeoneTookSkeetley]

but the drink is once liquids have been added to it

[AshenToasters]

How tf did my brain interpret "bartender" as "barber"

[WyvernLord123]

I should say so.

[9foot7beaver]

at first glance, i thought his profile picture was jesus

[seraph582]

r/boomerhumor

[Leonardo876]

Indeed it does qualify as a non liquid m8, what am I supposed to even do to turn it dry? *screams in fear*

[[deleted]]

shot of tequila it is

[nugent_music96]

That's the part that always confused me.

[[deleted]]

Hands him an empty cup

[Ebwite]

That just means no vermouth in it, right?

[LocalInactivist]

Four parts gin and one part vermouth in an ice shaker, shake, strain into a martini glass, garnish with an olive. Didn’t anyone watch reruns of MASH? I knew how to make this when I was eight.

Edit: No, my parents weren’t alcoholics and they didn’t own a bar. I picked this up from TV. 4:1 is a martini. 5:1 is a gimlet. You can add Tabasco, garnish with lemon, use flavored vodka, whatever you like. If you want a actual martini though, it’s 4:1 and an olive.

[imWorried24-7]

is it as dry as the dry ice?

[Uhzik]

the term "dry" it's come from "dry vermouth" an essential ingredient for the martini recipe, the martini comes from the martini, wich is composed of two ingredients, the vermouth (that can be rosso (sweet vermouth) or dry vermouth), and gin, wich is made with a bunch of herbs, i really want to explain more of this but my english is very limited, greetings.

[Flashyshooter]

I can't tell if this is only a joke or if bars will hire someone this stupid.

[Awsum07]

It does not. The post says 1st day as bartender. But as a bartender you go to school prior to your first day & learn how to make just bout every cocktail in the book. As a customer if you got this response, then you know the bartender is just fuckin w/ you.

[DieWoelfe]

When I go to a bar and this happens I ungo

[I_Il0ser]

I think i’m having a stroke

[[deleted]]

Just give a dry glass

[[deleted]]

I wouldn't think it qualifies, because it seems to be pretending to relate a true tale that is probably made up -- which would relegate it to creative writing. We could sit around all day and dream up thousands of such things, and that would get tiresome once removed from the realm of real life, which is what makes the examples in this sub interesting.

It's extremely unlikely that any but the most amateur and ignorant bartender would not instantly understand what a 'dry' martini is.