What is dishwasher vodka and, is it a good gift?

[lighthousekeeping]

I've seen it come up on here before but I can't work out what it is. Can you get away with using the cheap stuff?

[WordsPuttingIntoSentenceDoing]

I've just been to the shop and got a small bottle of vodka, some butter mints and some sherbert lemons (Damn buy one get one free!)

I can't decide which sweets to eat and which to put in the vodka!

[LynetteScavo]

OK, maybe a silly question, but I don't drink Vodka.

Can you do anything similar with other alcohol?

[fuzzpig]

Clearly you have to try both!

Hope you don't mind OP, I reported this thread to be moved as it would be a shame if it disappears after 90 days!

[fuzzpig]

Apparently rum is good too LS.

[GlaikitFizzog]

There is a recipe further back for Christmas pudding rum lynette.

[CatherineHMumsnet]

We've been asked to move this into the Christmas section so it doesn't disappear so if there are no complaints we'll be doing this shortly.

[Selks]

Can you turn any of these recipes (such as the toffee vodka) into a creamy drink by adding cream?

[Selks]

Am thinking along the lines of malteser vodka (easy to get them into the bottle anyway!) or dime bar vodka. Think those would work?

[Selks]

Must. Stop. Thinking. About. Chocolate. And. Alcohol.

[GlaikitFizzog]

Malteasers leave a chalky residue behind, just so you know!

[weegiemum]

I did it with Soor Plooms (might be Scotland specific!).

It was amazing

[GlaikitFizzog]

Soor plooms would be amazing!!

Black jacks and fruit salads haven't dissolved I. The dishwasher. So they have sort of clumped together in the side of he bottle.

[gussiegrips]

Soor plooms!

Where can one buy soor plooms nowadays...

[GlaikitFizzog]

www.amazon.co.uk/Soor-Plooms-3-25-kilo-jar/dp/B0047052HK?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[NicholasTeakozy]

I am so going to be making some 'dishwasher vodka' to give to me kids at xmas. :o

[GlaikitFizzog]

:o

[OlaRapaceFru]

I've decided I'm going to make some for me with Caramac!

[lighthousekeeping]

I don't know why I started this. I haven't got a bumming dishwasher.

[OlaRapaceFru]

Yeah, but you make make all sorts of different types without a dishwasher - some of them don't even need a dishwasher, and the other you can just stand the bottles in a bowl of hot water.

Don't give up now lighthousekeeping

[NicholasTeakozy]

Youngest is 17 Glaikit :o

[GlaikitFizzog]

Well that's fine Nic! As long as they aren't still in nappies!

[4forkssake]

If you're making quite a few different flavours to give people, I've found these bottles to be really good. That way rope get to sample a few flavours & try can put their orders in for their favourites for next year!

www.lakeland.co.uk/15585/6-Mini-Presentation-Bottles

Has anyone tried dairy milk vodka?

[Dawnywoo]

Ooh, hello fellow vodka tinkerers.

I've literally just made some chocolate orange vodka (3 bars terrys choc orange chopped up and rammed in the neck of a 35cl bottle)

Stood it in the sink filled with hot water for an hour - gave it a few shakes. Bingo! Looks lush, smells lush. Reminds me of the one I used to gorge on have occasionally in Revolution Bar.

Speaking of which - they are good for some good insipration www.revolution-bars.co.uk/lovevodka/vodkaflavours.php

No idea how they make the Birthday Cake vodka though.

[Peanutbutterfingers]

For those of us without dishwashers is there any reason not to do in a pan on stove overly heat enough to melt sweets/chocolate but not to cook off alcohol and decant into bottles?

[Dawnywoo]

Seriously, put it all in the bottle and just stand it in the sink with hot water.

Works a treat. No need to be messing on with the cooker or microwave.