Cocktails with Saline solution
Saline solution is salt dissolved in water and dosed by the drop, a way of salting a drink without a rim or a crunch.
How it's used
A dash or a few drops damp bitterness, round off acidity and make a drink taste a little sweeter. At that level nobody tastes the salt itself.
Substitutes for Saline solution
Homemade saline
Stir 20 g of fine salt into 80 g of warm water until it dissolves: that is the common 20% saline.
Fine salt
A tiny pinch added with the other ingredients does the same job, though it is harder to dose.
Without salt
Leaving it out is fine too. The drink just tastes a little duller.
Storage
Salt water does not spoil. Keep it capped so it does not concentrate by evaporation, which would quietly make every dose stronger than the last.
