Blender
Also known as: bar blender
In short
The blender is the bar's mixer and the machine behind frozen drinks: piña colada, frozen margarita and frozen daiquiri are born in it. We explain the difference to flash blending and why crushed ice belongs in it.
In depth
What is a blender?
The blender is the bar's electric mixer, the machine that turns ice and drink into a smooth mass. Its home are the frozen drinks: piña colada, frozen margarita and frozen daiquiri are its classics.
Frozen or flash?
The blender knows two speeds: frozen drinks run long enough for the ice to become a snow like texture, the kind you know from our ice round, where crushed ice makes the cold. Flash blending runs only briefly and makes texture without frost: "Stirring makes silk, batching makes stock, flash blending makes fluff, the whip shake makes half the way, the reverse dry shake makes the foam."
Why crushed ice belongs in it
A blender works best with crushed ice: many small pieces process more evenly than large cubes, the frozen drink gets cold and smooth throughout. The tiki world in particular loves blending, and there the blender often meets overproof rum.
Remember this one
"Shaking makes texture, straining makes the finish, the blender makes the frost, flaming makes the spark."
At our lounge
When winter should go into the glass: ask our team for a frozen moment, the blender makes it possible.