Grapefruit Cordial Sustainable Life Hacks for Preserving Your Fruit

Here are my tips for a sustainable life hack in saving and preserving your fruit. Today we'll do it in the tradition of making a grapefruit cordial.
Don’t you just hate throwing away fruit? I sure do. Making cordials is a great way to upcycle your old juice and rinds from citrus fruit, and it’s really quite simple. All you need are a few household items (a scale and a sealable bag), your fruit that’s almost past it’s prime, and some sugar. You could even add some other spices to take it to the next level, but I like to keep mine pretty basic. It’s a great addition to dessert, breakfast foods like yogurt or oatmeal and of course drinks!
Method:
Completely remove outer peel of citrus fruit, weigh it on a digital scale
Add the same weight of sugar to fruit peels
Massage. - you just made oleo sacchrum!
Juice your fruit, or measure out your leftover juice and heat with equal parts (by volume) sugar until sugar dissolves.
Add Juice syrup and oleo sacchrum and store in the fridge.
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[@TheWeePearl]

I love a good bar hack that saves my fruit (and money). Not only is cordial easy to make and a great way to upcycle old fruit, it’s also so delicious and a great alternative to simple syrup in lots of cocktail recipes. I hope you give this method of cordial making a try and let me know what you think. Cheers!

[@RobsHomeBar]

A great hack. You’re right, there’s definitely a lot of citrus waste when making cocktails! 🤦‍♂️🥃

[@CoachVinoLLC]

Citrus waste is pretty inevitable in the cocktail biz but it's nice to see ways of preserving some of it. This looks great! 🥃

[@marcos-ne3tw]

Thank you for shearing its an honest pleasure seeing someone doing bar work so perfectly and with such spirit 💪🧠

[@cocktailswithlele4042]

Beautiful video and great advice!

[@simplyapleb9027]

Somehow I just thought of a mezcal with grapefruit cordial 😋

[@halflitcocktails6964]

Love the style of your videos! So aesthetic. 🙌🏻

[@LuisOrtega-jn4vd]

I love all your recipes..

[@cdoconn]

Have you thought about using glass jars to help make your oleo? I feel like it would help you on your waste!

[@carl_busch]

What a great bartending hack. Will for sure give this a try.

[@patximartel]

Great channel

[@TheTribalBarGuy]

Great video. This looks fantastic. Usually I don't have issues with the juice, since I like to drink it or add the lemon or lime one to water for some extra taste. However I definetly am trying lately to use more of the citrus peel as well, including drying it, for infusions or other cocktail projects in the future.

[@rho1360]

Stirred into yoghurt or drizzled over oats! 😋 I'm going to make some right now!

[@feuste75]

Hey when would you add spices like cardamome or pepper during the process ? Looks nice i'll try tomorrow with tangerine !

[@dizturb5062]

Better way it's to put juice and sugar cooked in sous vide, you loose less flavors and aromas 😉 doesnt change a lot but you keep consistency on point every time you do it, heating can end up with some evaporation.

[@SeeHearASMR]

What’s the difference between between a Oleo, Cordial and Simple Syrup? Would you use the three interchangeably? Is there more flavor in one than the other? Anyone know?

[@valhala73]

Great tip!!! Didn´t you use any citric or malic acid? Isn´t necessary to make a cordial? All the best

[@randyperry9023]

Can you show us a drink with this in it. Maybe a cocktail and a none alcoholic drink?

[@hsiaochen9042]

Hi what’s the ratio of oleo sacchrum to juice ? I am a little confused

[@kwunhungchan6283]

How long can it keep？