What's your favorite martini?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We freeze a half-and-half mixture of water and vermouth, and use that to maximize the chill. A martini needs to be as cold as physics allows!

Glass in the fridge
Vodka/ gin in the freezer
Vermouth frozen in cubes

Once that's done, I like lemon (a large twist, both twisted and dunked) and my husband likes dirty. He uses brine in almost equal quantities to the vermouth, which is too salty for me. Let the vermouth cubes (1-2 depending on size and taste) melt just a little so the water can mellow the booze.

I’m intrigued and a little confused. Do you drink your martinis on the rocks? I’ve never had one that way but I do love martinis icy cold.

If you do drink them on the rocks, do you still mix vermouth into the liquid, or is all of the drink’s worth of vermouth frozen into the ice cubes (50/50 with water). It seems that in drinking it, you’d get little vermouth until the ice cube is mostly frozen.

What am I missing?