The Blender Bottle Makes An Excellent Cocktail Shaker

The Blender Bottle is an item “healthy people” own and use, so I’ve never spent a ton of time thinking about it. But that little whisk ball inside the spouted plastic bottle is destined for more than merely blending protein powder—that whisk ball is made for alcoholic greatness.

As you probably know, Beth Skwarecki is a healthy person. Beth is also a beer drinker who does not own a cocktail shaker—but she does own a blender bottle because she routinely lifts a lot of heavy things, which requires lots of protein, and so she drinks a lot of protein shakes. But like so many of us, Beth also needs a fun cocktail from time to time, and recently made one of the most challenging cocktails in cocktail canon—the Ramos gin fizz—using her Blender Bottle.

I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna make a Ramos gin fizz in a protein shaker and blame @clairelizzie for the outcome pic.twitter.com/aPnWmz2MKN

— Beth Skwarecki (@BethSkw) May 30, 2020

Spoiler alert: It worked, and it worked extremely well.

I think I did it pic.twitter.com/Y8FsI6lNfj

— Beth Skwarecki (@BethSkw) May 30, 2020

As you can see, the Ramos is a frothy cocktail. It’s served with a dome of foam on top, and the little whisk ball inside the blender bottle—made for… breaking up protein powder or something, I don’t know—does a bang up job of building that dome. It aerates and agitates, essentially whipping the egg whites into a meringue.

In fact, if you have a blender bottle, you don’t really need a cocktail shaker; if Beth can make a Ramos in one, you can use one to make a daiquiri, a sour or any drink that needs a good shake. It’s especially helpful if you enjoy an egg white in your sour; not only does that whisk ball make building a foam much easier, but you can actually see inside the bottle, and this visually track the foam as it builds. Just add all your sour ingredients to the blender bottle, shake for a bit without ice (aka “dry shake”) until you see that foam from, then add ice and shake to chill. Pour into a glass and you’re done.

That whisk ball contributes two things—violence and air—and that’s what you need to build foams, with or without eggs. That little wire ball can even help build a beautiful foam in eggless drinks, like Sam Bithony did a while back with his whipped coffee frappe. It can also help you make make any shaken drink super refreshing and fluffy. (Sam’s frappe is not technically alcoholic, but it could be if you try hard and believe in yourself.)

The Blender Bottle doesn’t come in with a built-in strainer, but that’s ok—you can buy one of those. Better yet, just get a sieve and strain your drink through that—it can also be used for more than just cocktails, and I do love a multi-functional kitchen tool.