(please feel free to use this thread for other cocktail-related nonsense)
Over the weekend my favourite spirit measure got broken.
It was basically a small chemistry beaker graduated in 10ml increments up to 40ml.
“Fear not!” says I, “I have another”.
After a bit of digging I locate it, however the graduations have been selected by a crackhead. 10ml, 25ml, 40ml, plus a random indication of 50ml that seems to be showing a level lower than 40.
The steel one has 10/20/30/40/50/60ml graduations on one inner side & tablespoon (15ml) graduations on the other ranging from half a tablespoon (7.5ml) up to four & effectively covering 7.5/15/30/45/60 ml.
The plastic one covers more different measurement standards from 1 to 12 teaspoons (5ml increments), from half to 4 full tablespoons, up to 60ml in 10ml increments & usefully also going down to 5ml quite usefully & also very usefully if following cocktail recipes from some books or internet sources it also covers UK fluid ounces in a range from a quarter up to 2 fluid ounces.
One slight idiosyncrasy of the plastic one is that on the teaspoon scale is that 4teaspoons is pretty much bang on 25ml, not 20ml as it should be, but all the other scales seem accurate when I’ve decanted into other measures to check.
Definitely useful to have both, for if you are doing different drinks at the same time. They’re nice thoughtfully designed pieces of kit with good ergonomics & are very easy to use with the graduations always easy to read. With the thoughtfully provided lip/pouring spout & generosity of sizing they are near impossible to spill from unless you have pretty bad shakes.