Arnold, Dave. Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
An iterative bourbon comparison shows that protein dose changed whether whiskey character survived washing.
Dave Arnold, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), PDF sheet 349.
Dave Arnold, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), PDF sheet 349.
PDF sheet 349
PDF sheet 349
Arnold, Liquid Intelligence, PDF sheet 349.
Washing — Egg Washing
Fresh audit 2026-10-01: 2014 first-edition metadata and physical-PDF locator checked against completed reading. PDF 349: 20:1 was Arnold's preferred tested ratio, not a universal optimum or evidence of allergen removal. Egg-white amount is a proxy for variable protein content.
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Egg-wash intensity.
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