History Main / ScienceCocktail

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. Captain Archer gets caught out on a covert mission to a pre-warp drive civilisation this way. He watches a woman create a liquid from her equipment, and asks in a hushed voice what it is. She gives him a funny look as it's their version of a SpotOfTea.

* Jake Stonebender, from Creator/SpiderRobinson's ''[[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan]]'' series, owns a Rube Goldberg contraption that looks a bit like a 50s movie doomsday device. Its sole purpose is to make the perfect cup of coffee.
* Magical version: Potion class in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Blend exotic things in a cauldron and make a drinkable mixture.
* The machine that makes Three-Course Meal Chewing Gum in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' works this way.

Science, as we know, involves [[GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks lots of interesting glassware]] filled with [[TechnicolorScience bubbling fluids, condensing, percolating, spinning and being pushed through tubes]]. A pan across such equipment establishes that we're in a laboratory. When the pan ends with a scientist pouring the final product into a martini glass, adding an olive and drinking it, that's this trope. The drink doesn't have to be alcoholic. Often a subtrope of MundaneUtility.

Science as we know involves [[GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks lots of interesting glassware]] filled with [[TechnicolorScience bubbling fluids, condensing, perculating, spinning and being pushed through tubes]].

A pan across such equipment establishes that we're in a laboratory.

When the pan ends with a scientist pouring the final product into a martini glass, adding an olive and drinking it, that's this trope. Often a subtrope of MundaneUtility.

There can be the magical version of this trope, replacing the scientist with a wizard or witch. The TechnicolorScience becomes Technicolor Magic, but looks remarkably similar.

In essence, extensive arcane equipment is used to make an unexpectedly mundane drink.

* Magical version: Potion class in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Blend exotic things in a caldron and make a drinkable mixture.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' features a fancy resturant where the food is "deconstructed," and drank out of test tubes, or eaten in bite-sized spheres.

* In the new ''Film/GreenHornet'' movie, Kato makes apparently extremely good coffee with this big scientific industrial looking machine that he made and only he knows how to use.

When the pan ends with a scientist pouring the final product into a martini glass, adding an olive and drinking it, this is a ScienceCocktail. Often a subtrope of MundaneUtility.

In essense, extensive arcane equipment is used to make an unexpectedly mundane drink.

Science as we know involves [[TheThousandAndOneBottles lots of interesting glassware]] filled with [[TechnicolorScience bubbling fluids, condensing, perculating, spinning and being pushed through tubes]].

Science as we know involves lots of interesting glassware filled with [[TechnicolorScience bubbling fluids, condensing, perculating, spinning and being pushed through tubes]].

There can be the magical version of this trope, replacing the scientist with a wizard or witch. The TechnicolorScience becomes TechnicolorMagic, but looks remarkably similar.

* Coffee is produced this way in one episode of ''Series/BreakingBad''.

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* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Doc Brown has this elaborate machine in his Old West blacksmith shop. Takes up most of the room it's in. When he activates it, the thing huffs and puffs and shakes and finally, after all this ostentatious display, spits out two ice cubes.
-->'''Marty:''' "Its... a refrigerator?"
** Effective for the implied humor, but also fairly realistic as creating a refrigeration unit in that time with limited materials and technology would result in a large machine.

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* Jake Stonebender, from SpiderRobinson's ''[[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan]]'' series, owns a Rube Goldberg contraption that looks a bit like a 50s movie doomsday device. Its sole purpose is to make the perfect cup of coffee.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. Captain Archer gets caught out on a covert mission to a pre-warp drive civilisation this way. He watches a woman create a liquid from her equipment, and asks in a hushed voice what it is. She give him a funny look as it's their version of a SpotOfTea.

* In ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to the Future: Part III]]'', Doc Brown has this elaborate machine in his Old West blacksmith shop. Takes up most of the room it's in. When he activates it, the thing huffs and puffs and shakes and finally, after all this ostentatious display, spits out two ice cubes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold asks if the exotic glass-tube contraption will provide the forensic results they need, and Gerald replies that it's just to make hot chocolate.

* Magical version: Potion class in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Blending exotic things in a caldron and make a drinkable mixture.

* In ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to the Future: Part III]]'', Doc Brown has this elaborate machine in his Old West blacksmith shop. Takes up most of the room its in. When he activates it, the thing huffs and puffs and shakes and finally, after all this ostentatious display, spits out two ice cubes.

* In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'', The desert tiger has many scenes where he makes coffee out of tubes and bubbling pots and whatnot.

* Coffee is produced this way in one episode of {{Breaking Bad}}.

* The machines that make the Everlasting Gobstoppers and Three-Course Meal Chewing Gum in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.

* The machine that makes the Everlasting Gobstopper in ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.
** Also the machine that makes the Amazing Three-Course Meal Chewing Gum.

* Jake Stonebender, from SpiderRobinson's [[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan]] series, owns a Rube Goldberg contraption that looks a bit like a 50s movie doomsday device. Its sole purpose is to make the perfect cup of coffee.

* One episode of TheSimpsons features a fancy resturant where the food is "deconstructed," and drank out of test tubes, or eaten in bite-sized spheres.

* Some modern fusion restaurants that don't necessarily have elements of molecular gastronomy in their menu still serve drinks in test tubes or flasks. This is a trend among modern Chinese restaurants, where it is known as "test tube juice" (usually consisting of mixed fruit and vegetable juices) and is served as a kind of desert.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy Molecular gastronomy]] / [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_mixology molecular mixology]] is the real life version of this.