Cocktails that you inhale

A West Loop lounge called Red Kiva is about to introduce the Vaportini. It's kind of the same concept as "alcohol without liquid" but I don't think there's a machine. Basically, you inhale the fumes, rather than drinking the liquor.

Has anyone ever tried this? Is there any merit to it? It seems to me to be a way to get drunk quickly for people who don't like the taste of booze. (Although it's going to come in several flavors.) But I haven't tried it, so I could be wrong.

This is the first I've heard of this so could be quite wrong but I wonder how much alcohol, if any, one would ingest with this technique. Ethanol boils at 173F but the Vaportini container is only heated to 110F.

jpreiser wrote:This is the first I've heard of this so could be quite wrong but I wonder how much alcohol, if any, one would ingest with this technique. Ethanol boils at 173F but the Vaportini container is only heated to 110F.

Yeah, at that temperature all they're doing is speeding up the alcohol's rate of evaporation. So you'll be there sucking in bits of boozy fumes for quite a while, while normal people had already thrown down three ice-cold, drinkable martinis & called it a night

"A lot of people are calling bullshit on that tostada, dude."

jsagoff wrote:"A lot of people are calling bullshit on that tostada, dude."

Maybe Morgan Freeman will weigh in on the issue.

jsagoff wrote:"A lot of people are calling bullshit on that tostada, dude."

In case anyone doesn't get the reference (and how would you?): http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02052007

Edit: Link to the source.

geno55 wrote:

jsagoff wrote:"A lot of people are calling bullshit on that tostada, dude."

In case anyone doesn't get the reference (and how would you?): http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua2QvlLg

That's cracking me up a lot more than it should.