— Melvin Graham

Your answer to why I drenched my smoked side of smoked salmon in alcohol before trying to dry it. It's because alcohol lowers the evaporation temperature of water. This is why alcohol is particularly good in like fry batters if you're making them, because it evaporates the water faster. And what that does is, instead of like just putting water into your mix or seltzer water, you're putting in, uh, vodka which evaporates faster so you get less steam time and more crisping time. Same is true if you are trying to dry something off by patting it or drenching it with alcohol. It, it sort of forces that issue. It helps to dehydrate the surface of that a little bit faster. So there you go, Melvin. Nice buddy.