The fact that I have pretty much everything on this list means it must be pretty good. One addition, one piece of advice, and one pedantic correction:
- Vintage Rival electrical ice crushers can be had for a reasonable price on eBay. Unless you have some frustrations to take out, they're preferable to a Lewis bag for anything more than a drink's worth of crushed ice.
- If you're going to use a pint glass as the top of your shaker, make sure you're buying the tempered kind.
- Mostly what a metal mixing tin will change is a cocktail's dilution, since it doesn't take as much energy to cool down a metal tin as a mixing glass. (This will make the drink a little colder, since less dilution means higher ABV means lower equilibrium temperature.) You can accomplish pretty much the same thing by pre-chilling your mixing glass.
Estate sales are a good place to find inexpensive glassware, particularly coupe glasses
+1 to the Koriko shaker from Cocktail Kingdom—definitely upped my game
The fact that I have pretty much everything on this list means it must be pretty good. One addition, one piece of advice, and one pedantic correction:
- Vintage Rival electrical ice crushers can be had for a reasonable price on eBay. Unless you have some frustrations to take out, they're preferable to a Lewis bag for anything more than a drink's worth of crushed ice.
- If you're going to use a pint glass as the top of your shaker, make sure you're buying the tempered kind.
- Mostly what a metal mixing tin will change is a cocktail's dilution, since it doesn't take as much energy to cool down a metal tin as a mixing glass. (This will make the drink a little colder, since less dilution means higher ABV means lower equilibrium temperature.) You can accomplish pretty much the same thing by pre-chilling your mixing glass.