Since its inception, the concept of the cocktail shaker has produced many patents that promised to make better cocktails with many functionless stylistic variations. When trying to find the best possible shaker, we found the most important factor was how well it sealed. Stainless steel tins heat up and cool down quicker than the traditional glass when shaking, and use less energy, meaning the cocktails you create are created at the correct temperature.

Cleanup Tests: After each test, we cleaned each shaker set by hand, noting how easy or difficult each was to clean. Enhanced with 18/8 Japanese steel, the Urban Bar Boston can offers a premium finish on basic barware.This can be helpful for ensuring the tins don’t tip over while adding ingredients, but flared bases can make shaking awkward or uncomfortable depending on how you like to hold your shaker. Made from stainless steel, this mini shaker comes complete with a built-in strainer for quick and easy serving. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This Bar Bits Glass Boston Cocktail Shaker tins features a reinforced base, just adding that bit of extra weight to your shaker making it perfect for launching your cocktail concoctions into the air with the added reassurance that they will fall bottom down for safe catching.

What we liked: The flared base might seem like a small detail, but it helped with stability when setting the tins upright on the counter. Let your glassware tell your story The Glass Is Where It All Begins From wine glasses that enhance flavours giving an incomparable tasting experience, through to vintage cocktail glasses which add sophistication to your dinner party. The steel and glass shaker was the most common variation, but when using glass to shake drinks with ice, there is always the possibility of the glass chipping or cracking.The tin features a highly polished exterior and a brushed interior for a top quality look to complement your bar arsenal. PROFESSIONAL BOSTON COCKTAIL SHAKER SET A must have cocktail shaker for any budding mixologist the FLOW Barware stainless steel cocktail making set will be a well used part of your cocktail kit.

Although one of the key advantages of the tin-on-tin Boston versus the tin-on-glass Boston has to be its durability.Some cocktails have very heavy ingredients, like egg white, so by shaking you can really amalgamate the flavours. If you want to learn more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to the cookie policy.

Generally, we preferred bases that were not flared—with a little care, these won’t tip over and they were more comfortable to hold onto and shake.The theory is that one day someone put these two vessels (of different sizes) together and shook the contents, probably for dramatic effect. Following the new copper barware trend, this Boston cocktail tin is the stylish choice for high end bars. You want to be able to feel the ice and cocktail ingredients going from one side of the tins to the other.