Dishwasher vodka - how to break up the sweets without making a mess?

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For those who don't know, dishwasher vodka involves drinking removing a quarter of the vodka from a bottle, refilling the bottle with crushed boiled sweets of your choice, doing the lid up tight and putting it through a 70 degree hot dishwasher cycle to cook the sweets into the vodka. It's delicious.

The bit I can't figure out is how best to crush the sweets and get them in the bottle. I've been leaving them in their wrappers and whacking them with a hammer on a chopping board, but they cut through the wrappers and even two plastic bags, leaving a sticky mess everywhere.

Is there a better way?

Take them out of the wrappers, and wrap them in a tea towel, then batter them on the chopping board.

Yep that. ^^

Also: what a great idea.

In a plastic bag wrapped in a tea towel? Otherwise they'll get tea towel fluff in them. Does the towel mean the bag doesn't get punctured?

Omg, that sounds awesome!

Which flavour sweets taste good? I could fancy doing it with sherbet lemons, or some rhubarb and custards.

Try with pear drops! 👍🏻

Skittle vodka is awesome, and they’re small enough to pop in the top.

Otherwise I’d do as pp said, put sweets in a ziplock bag and bash with a tea towel on top.

Ooh, pear drops and skittles both sound good! Maybe I'll buy two half bottles and try both!!

What do you mix it with after? I'' guessing tonic or soda, so you can taste the sweets?

Werther's Originals Vodka , poured over vanilla ice creme

I'm actually salivating at the thought of that, Finally

Ah, I was thinking more like a linen tea towel, but if you have fluffy tea towels then do stick them in a ziploc bag first.

Skittles vodka is excellent, but never use the green skittles. They’ll make your vodka murky rather than pleasantly colourful. Werthers Original vodka is even better.

Terry's Chocolate Orange vodka - absolutely fucking amazing.

I can confirm that rhubarb and custard and pear drops both taste great. Also if you use the yellow and green ones out of a packet of Glacier Fruits, then mix with tonic you get a perfect sherbet lemon.

Chocolate limes didn't work very well, too much murky solid brown stuff that wouldn't dissolve.

I've done cherry drops today but haven't drunk any yet, will report back tomorrow. Skittles sound much easier!

I'm using crap Tesco £10 a litre vodka by the way, and decanting it into smaller Fentimans bottles so I can try different flavours and give some to friends.

Wine gums would probably work, and would be easy to chop up.

OK I'm too old for this!