Classic Martini

Method

1. 1

   Gather ingredients: 60 ml gin, 30 ml dry vermouth, 150 g ice cubes. Tools needed: mixing glass, bar spoon, Hawthorne strainer, chilled Nick and Nora glass, minicarafe.

2. 2

   Hold ice cubes in palm and crack into jagged pieces using the back of a spoon; fill mixing glass with cracked ice.

3. 3

   Add 60 ml gin and 30 ml dry vermouth to the mixing glass.

4. 4

   Rapidly stir the mixture 50 times in a circular motion until the outside of the glass is frosty.

5. 5

   Strain the martini through a Hawthorne strainer into a chilled Nick and Nora glass.

6. 6

   Strain any remaining liquid into a minicarafe set on ice as a sidecar.