When the climate is correct, there’s nothing fairly like a frozen cocktail. In actual fact, even when the climate shouldn’t be so good, I’m by no means actually towards a frozé or a frozen margarita. Making frozen drinks is all the time a labor of affection that includes a number of ice and a blender and crossed fingers that every part works out OK and also you don’t find yourself with a glass filled with ice chunks.
Enter Inoviva and its slushie machine, which presents up a restaurant-style slush expertise, a miniature model of the Slurpee/Icee so nicely.
After taking a look at a photograph of the Inoviva, you most likely don’t want a complete lot of clarification about what it’s and the way it works. Dump your elements into the barrel (as much as 48 oz complete), punch a button, and a paddle begins spinning the elements round a thick aluminum core, which chills the elements to freezing because it swirls. You don’t (and may’t) add ice: The slushie is generated by freezing the liquid straight.
5 preset modes are included (cocktail, wine, milkshake, and extra), together with 5 “thickness” settings. It takes a couple of half hour to totally slush up, at which level you may dispense your beverage straight into your glass by pulling the tap-like deal with. Clear-up is surprisingly straightforward. There are solely three items to scrub that contact liquid elements; a cleansing mode enables you to swirl heat water across the cooling aspect, which then might be merely wiped off with a rag.
I attempted a few cocktails with the Inoviva — a frozen margarita and an try to recreate the frozen Irish espresso I loved at The Lifeless Rabbit Austin. Mixing up your drink is straightforward. Getting it to freeze to the appropriate consistency is tough. Actually laborious, the truth is, to the purpose the place I by no means actually bought the slushie expertise I needed. Having the correct amount of sugar within the drink is what’s key to getting it to freeze — similar deal as with making ice cream — and I tweaked my recipes endlessly. (A brix stage between 11 and 13 is alleged to be excellent.) I by no means fairly bought there, although. The drinks tasted good and had been good and chilly — however they had been all the time extra liquid than I actually needed.
At $360, the Inoviva is dear however appears honest for what it does — or can do, no less than. I look ahead to experimenting with it extra over the months to return… however particularly as soon as issues heat up.
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Inoviva Slushie Machine
$360
