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?

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!

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

Can you do anything similar with other alcohol?

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!

Apparently rum is good too LS.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It was amazing

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.

Soor plooms!

Where can one buy soor plooms nowadays...

www.amazon.co.uk/Soor-Plooms-3-25-kilo-jar/dp/B0047052HK

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

:o

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

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

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

Youngest is 17 Glaikit :o

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

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?

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.

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?

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.