Comments on: The Ward Eight

By: a

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:07:49 +0000

Or you could make two servings at a time.

By: c

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:06:49 +0000

Wow. A digital scale! Don’t think I’ve seen any drink recipes but yours with quantities given by weight. I imagine that most liquors are pretty similar in density, but would think that you’d see a fair bit of variation between liqueurs, say from one curaçao to another.

I think, though, that I shall be sticking with my well-graduated jigger — spoons and two-sided jiggers lend themselves to spillage, in my hands at least. I’m fairly adept, and more comfortable pouring to a line with some headspace in the measuring vessel.

And re: the leftover OJ, it’s not really so much a practical problem as merely a mental barrier… it doesn’t go to waste, certainly. Unlike, say, lemon juice, I will happily throw back a few extra ounces of orange juice when there’s a remainder.

By: Nichola Collins

Nichola Collins — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:51:17 +0000

Ah, I see what the issue is re the orange juice. But leftover fresh juice CAN be stored for several days (especially if it is strained), or lobbed into the container of breakfast OJ.

Ingredients used in small quantities tend to come in small, not 750 ml, bottles. Squinting at measures in a glass jigger is a pain, but using a two-sided jigger, which is available in a 1 1/2 oz. and 3/4 oz. combo BTW, is much easier.

We find a digital scale best of all. But still resort to spoons, or the two-sided jigger, when more convenient.

By: c

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:57:55 +0000

Ack. I respectfully disagree re: spoons… I have a hell of a time pouring precisely from a 750ml. bottle into a spoon and much prefer the convenience of little multi-unit measuring glasses, marked in milliliters, teaspoons, tablespoons and ounces. My only complaint is that mine are only 1 1/2 oz., not 2, and lack a 3/4 oz. line, requiring me to pour two 1 oz. measures in place of a single 2, or a 1/4 and a 1/2 in lieu of a single 3/4 oz pour.

No, the business about the annoyingly small portion of OJ wasn’t to do with having to measure 1/4 ounce, but rather that juicing an orange for the use of a mere 1/4 oz is enough to give a solitary mixer pause. I’ll do it, but sometimes I think “I should just mix a drink calling for more orange juice, or find one calling for none of it.” Much less of a concern when you’re serving several at once.

By: Nichola Collins

Nichola Collins — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:42:17 +0000

Get thee a set of measuring spoons that include a tablespoon (1/2 oz.) and a half tablespoon (1/4 oz.). Spoons are more convenient for measuring tiny amounts; also one is less likely to slop in too much. Lacking flair, but then only your cocktail shaker will know.

Measures in both weight and volume when the amounts are a small still maintains accuracy.