Bartending is fun when you have all of the right tools to make it work! There are a lot of different bartending tools, most of the equipment is necessary to make the drinks when you have a full bar. Bartending is fun, and if you know the use of all your tools you will surely impress all of your friends! This is a quick list that you can run through to re-fresh your memory when your having a party. Its good to know your equipment before you start whipping up drinks & this a great refresher!
Bartending Equipment: These tools are necessary for making drinks
- Measuring jug – these usually come with general, standardized measures. It looks like a trumpet.
- Measure – A measure can be called a “jigger,” and this measures tablespoons and it happens to look a little bit more professional.
- Cocktail shaker – The shaker is used for drinks that need mixing. It can also be used to cool the drink.
- Blender or Liquidizer – is good for drinks that need to aerated, and it is also good for drinks that need to be frothy.
- Ice Bags – are good for keeping nice round pieces of ice oppose to the hard edgy ice that comes out of your home fridge.
- Ice crusher- you can use a wooden hammer and a towel, or just have a blender if you don’t want to go out and get an ice crusher. They both work equally as well.
- Wooden hammer – used to crush ice.
- Ice Bag or towel – its to crush ice, and you would generally use the wooden hammer to do this.
- Ice bucket or chiller bucket – will keep bottles drinks nice and chilled, unless you want to just keep it in the fridge, but that becomes a hassle when everyone continuously opens up the fridge.
- Mixing pitcher or bar glass – is useful because it is used to mix and stir large amounts of drinks.
- Muddler – is a long stick that has a bulbous end. It is used for crushing sugar.
- Bar spoon- long- handled and usually very skinny. This tool is used to reach the tallest tumblers, and is used in jugs, or for mixing drinks directly. They look very fancy, somewhat like a dessert spoon.
- Strainer – used for pouring drinks from a shaker or mixer without the ice falling into the cup.
- Corkscrew – the fold up type of corkscrew incorporates a can opener and bottle-top flipper as well as the screw itself.
- Sharp knife and a squeezer – citrus is the quintessential fruit for many cocktails. Having a sharp knife is good for halving fruits and peeling the skin for decoration.
- Nutmeg grater -a tiny grater with small holes. It’s used for grating nutmeg over drinks like eggnog.
- Zester and canella knife – these are used for presenting fruit attractively by garnishing the glass.
- Egg whisk – is used to beat the frothy texture into egg whites before adding it a drink.
- Straws, swizzle-sticks and cocktail sticks – these items are used to add the finishing touches to a cocktail. Cocktail sticks are purely decorative, and swizzle-stick is useful for stirring a drink.
