Muddle is a word with two meanings when it comes to food/drink preparation, which makes it a little confusing when you first hear it used. There is a tool used by bartenders, and anyone else who really likes to make drinks, called a muddler. It is a rod with a flattened end, like the one shown in the picture. It is used to crush ingredients together, usually at the bottom of a glass, which is a process known as muddling.
Most often, the drinks that are prepared with a muddle are those that involve herbs and citrus, because crushing them together with sugar releases their natural oils brings out their flavors of the ingredients more strongly. For example, a mint julep usually has mint and sugar muddled together at the bottom of the glass before adding the other ingredients. In a mojito, lime is added to the mint and sugar mixture, too.

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6-22-2006 @11:15PM Jonathan said... Here's another cool muddle post...and other foodstuffs.
http://allthemarmalade.blogspot.com
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6-23-2006 @4:54PM floretbroccoli said... "Muddle is a word with two meanings when it comes to food/drink preparation, which makes it a little confusing when you first hear it used."
What is the second meaning?
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6-23-2006 @5:23PM Nicole Weston said... One meaning is a noun, as in "muddler," while the other is the verb, as in "to muddle".
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