On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 10:05:17 AM UTC-7, gtr wrote:
> On 2015-10-15 21:43:06 +0000, Jeßus said:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:01:24 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>> Any brainstorming appreciated.
> >>
> >> Have you googled it.
>
> Yes, quite a bit.
>
> >> I did and found this in under a minute.
> >> http://www.thekitchn.com/cocktail-in...ow-to-in-52064
>
> I didn't see that, but I'm not surprised since there is no mention of
> onions in it, just generic information about what an infusion is. I
> already know since I've made many of them over the years. Dealing with
> berries, ginger or lemon isn't quite as easy as onions. Additionally,
> there are many kinds of onions.
>
> > You just 3.5 hours earlier:
> > "not everyone has the experience or the years of cooking that most do
> > here. cut people some slack, they are asking questions and learning"
> >
> > Sorry, but I couldn't help but notice that.
>
> I missed seeing the "helpful" google advice above, but had already
> reviewed 8 or 10 of them specifically with onion; many of them
> contradictory and some seem to have been put together without any real
> experience of actually doing it. And a number of them are all about
> prepping the vodka for a bloody mary, in which I have no interest.
>
> I picked up a bag of cippolini onions and a Peruvian sweet onion and
> will put them each in a pint of vodka later today. I'm going to peel
> and slice the cippolini's in half, maybe quarters. The sweet onion I'm
> going to just cut a few slices of. We'll see. I can't imagine it will
> taste good as is, but the idea of carmelizing them is a little
> difficult to imagine too. If these fail with no particularly
> educational take-away, it will the sauté pan for the next guess.

I'm in the process of learning to make my own tonic syrup. I'm getting ingredients this weekend. Have you made any of the coctail syrups?