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Subject: Re: How to use a Boston shaker?
From: Little_Green_Men
Posted: Wed Feb 13. 2002, 08:25 UTC
Followup to: "Re: How to use a Boston shaker?"  by Kelly Jameson  (Thu Sep 24. 1998, 01:24 UTC)
> > I just bought a Boston shaker (ie. a glass, a steel cone, and a 
> > strainer), and 
> > I'm unsure of how to use it.  As I understand it, I fill the glass 
> > with ice 
> > and the ingredients for the cocktail, fit the steel cone upside down 
> > over the 
> > glass, shake the glass and cone vigorously, set it down glass side 
> > up, remove 
> > the glass and strain from the cone into the serving glass.  I'm 
> > having two 
> > problems: I can't form a proper seal between the cone and glass; and 
> > the 
> > coil-rimmed strainer seems to fit the glass, not the cone.  Any 
> > suggestions?
> 
> 
>      The coil of the strainer goes inside of the tin.  You mix the 
> drink in the glass, fit the tin, upsidedown on top of the glass, as 
> tightly as you can, and then shake.  You could strain from either 
> glass or tin.  You cannot use Gin in the tin, because it will bruise 
> it.....make it cloudy.  I hope I helped!

Kiran:

Try a different strainer.  There are two-pronged and four-pronged.  For the 
cup I recommend the four-pronged.  The MYTH continues about the "Gin in the 
Tin" to this day.  In the old days shakers were made of Silver, Nickel, 
Nickel-Plated Copper and so on....we now have stainless shakers.  Mix your 
drinks in either glass or stainless.  However; since the "myth" continues use 
the glass portion to build the drink, then cap the glass with the cup making 
sure to invert the assembled shaker holding the glass end UP while shaking.  
If you must pour from the glass (indicating that you know Martinis should be 
served from glass) first "crack" the skaker glass-side UP, then pour the 
contents from the tin into the glass, then strain.

Hopes this helps


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