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Types Of Martini Shakers

The perfect Martini can make the perfect evening. Whether you’re entertaining guests or having a quiet evening at home. In order to make the perfect Martini we need the perfect tools and nothing is more essential then the Martini Shaker.

The standard Cocktail or Martini Shaker is a stainless steel container. Besides mixing the ingredients, shaking the ingredients with ice will cool the drink without having to actually have ice in your drink. Martinis aren’t served on the rocks. The longer you shake the drink the colder it will get.

The standard cocktail shaker most of us envision, is the Cobbler shaker. A three-piece stainless steel shaker with a strainer built into it. It consists of the shaker tumbler, a lid with a strainer, and the cap. This is also the easiest shaker to begin with, although sometimes it is difficult to get the cap off if a vacuum seal is formed.

A more advanced but often times preferred Martini Shaker is the Boston Shaker. This shaker has a stainless steel tumbler and a slightly smaller mixing glass. You put the ingredients into the glass and then fill it up with ice. Place the stainless steel tumbler on top of the glass. The tumbler is upside down and you can form a seal between the glass and tumbler by giving the tumbler a whack.

Carefully shake until your drink is properly mixed and chilled. Then find the spot where the glass and tumbler meet and give it another whack to break the seal. To avoid getting ice in your newly mixed martini, you will need a strainer. The preferred strainer is the Hawthorne strainer which has a spring around the bottom so that it will fit any glass or tumbler.

James Bond may have preferred his Martini shaken and as cold as possible, but some people may prefer theirs stirred. The reason some preferred stirred is because they don’t want to bruise the gin or vodka which would mean getting little chunks of ice mixed with the alcohol.

If you will be making a stirred martini then a mixing spoon is essential. This is an elongated spoon with the head about the size of a teaspoon, and the handle is swirled. The swirled handle makes it easy to quickly stir your drink and the length makes it easy to reach the bottom of the tumbler.

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