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Cocktail & Bar

Five tools that cover every classic cocktail technique: shaking, stirring, straining and measuring, without a drawer full of gadgets.

A home bar needs less than most starter kits suggest. A two-piece shaker, a strainer, a jigger and a long spoon will make almost every drink in the standard repertoire; a mixing glass improves the stirred ones. These guides cover what each tool does, where cheap versions actually fail, and how the measurements translate to ratios you can remember.

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