Favorite Martini recipe

I like Hendrick's but am also partial to Plymouth or Tanqueray.

4 to 1, gin to dry vermouth, with a smidge of orange bitters. Dolin or Martini and Rossi on the dry vermouth. Stirred 40 times with a scoop of ice. Strained into chilled glass. Either olive or lemon peel. Never both. Rinse. Repeat.

Not particularly. I like a gin and vermouth soaked olive at the end of a martini, but not an olive juice soaked gin at the beginning of a martini.

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I like Hendrick's but am also partial to Plymouth or Tanqueray.

4 to 1, gin to dry vermouth, with a smidge of orange bitters. Dolin or Martini and Rossi on the dry vermouth. Stirred 40 times with a scoop of ice. Strained into chilled glass. Either olive or lemon peel. Never both. Rinse. Repeat.

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This is all correct.

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I like Hendrick's but am also partial to Plymouth or Tanqueray.

4 to 1, gin to dry vermouth, with a smidge of orange bitters. Dolin or Martini and Rossi on the dry vermouth. Stirred 40 times with a scoop of ice. Strained into chilled glass. Either olive or lemon peel. Never both. Rinse. Repeat.

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Same for me except 86 the bitters.

I'll give it a shot. Recs on a brand?

Bitter Truth or Fee Brothers

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2 shots vodka 1 shot vermouth and an olive.

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Ouch.

Headstostoreandgetshendricksandorangebitters

There arent many absolute truths in food and drink, but this is one.

A martini does not have vodka. If you dont have vermouth, you dont have a martini, you have a shot of alcohol.

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There arent many absolute truths in food and drink, but this is one.

A martini does not have vodka.

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I'm with you, but it has now become a prescriptive vs. descriptive matter. I'm kind of a traditionalist, so I believe that a martini only uses gin (i.e., the prescriptive interpretation), but so many people use the term to desribe other types of drinks, that I'm afraid it's a losing battle.

I for one, will keep using the term my way, stop fighting, and just enjoy drinking them. The orange bitters suggestion in this thread is, however, intriguing, and I may very well try them in the near future.

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I'm with you, but it has now become a prescriptive vs. descriptive matter. I'm kind of a traditionalist, so I believe that a martini only uses gin (i.e., the prescriptive interpretation), but so many people use the term to desribe other types of drinks, that I'm afraid it's a losing battle.

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When I bartended, people would sit at my bar and ask for a martini, and get pissed when they would see me make it with gin .....definitely a losing battle