Transcript: Edging (Alberta Essential)

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Cocktails on the fly
Episode “Edging”

Alberta Strauss: Hi, this is a Flighty tip. I am going to show you how to get your edge on, ok here we go. Its pretty simple, no big deal, you wan to put a nice uh. Well, ok, the bartending books and cook books they call it rimming. Flighty like to call it edging, there's a little story behind this but no big deal. Imagine bellowing out in the middle of a busy bar, which all of a sudden goes silent. Hey is this that stuff we use for rimming?
So just to let you know flighty calls it edging. So this is all you got to do. You just take your citrus, whew here we go, you just use a lemon. It doesn’t even matter at all but we are going to use a lemon for the sugar and we are going to use the lime for the salt. No big deal you can use either or.
You just want to, the only thing you want to make sure, that its not too moist you don’t have to much liquid on there because other wise it will clump your sugar or salt. So just dip it in, there we go. There we go you got a nice glass ready for a margarita or whatever. And this one this is a bar fine sugar. Actually its baker’s sugar, you can find this at any grocery store. It is pretty hard to find bar fine sugar these days.
Bar fine sugar is kind of a sugar that is more finely ground than the regular sugar that you find in the store, but it’s less fine than confectioner’s sugar, which also has starch in it, so you don’t want to use that for a cocktail. But you know what it’s really worth it to get this sugar for the edge of your glass because it taste, it makes your cocktail taste better. Trust me flighty tasted May, many cocktails and flighty knows.
So all you got to do, edge your glass dip it, oh get it going. Get it going ooh there we go. And there we go, we got two great glasses. Edged, were ready and filling and we are ready for drinking. Cheers. Edging, rimming, that’s what we got.
Edging:
1. Take half a lemon or lime
2. Run around glass edge
3. Roll edge through sugar or salt
4. You’ve edged a glass!
5. Delicious