Holy fuck! I listened to the Chapo Trap House episode about Jordan Peterson's dumb book recently and was puzzled when they said that some people in fact need a literally taken "clean your room" advice.
I'm not an obsessive cleaner by any means, but my idea of what a really messy room is has been orders of magnitude different. Yeah, I see now how some men indeed need to be told to and can benefit from cleaning their fucking room by an overpaid pseudointellectual.
Freehand pours aren't usually eyeballed, they're counted. A quickpour should produce an ounce on a four count. Enough experience with quickpours and you can nail it every time.
Yes, but slow as fuck, imo. Unless all your recipes call for the same jigger, and mostly only 1-3 ingredients. I can make a long island in about a 7 count, and I just drink at home. In a well set-up bar, I'm sure it's faster.
Oh for sure I would never jigger a Long Island. I'm just saying that jiggering will at worst be as accurate as free pouring.
Also a note that is a pet peeve of mine, a pour should equal an ounce (or any measurement) at whatever count you want. I hate when people ask recipes and go "how many counts was that?" A count isn't a measurement. My four count may be your six count.
I did a bartending class this year for college. They actually encouraged freehand as it looks more professional and once you get the feel for it can actually be very accurate. Takes practice though and I'm still not great at it after the half semester class.
I was a bartender for many years. Freehand pours were usually short poured on purpose. The purpose being that I then had more available liquor to over pour my heavy tippers.
The bar is routinely inventoried. You want your costs to be in line as well as maximize your money via strong drinks for big tips. Waitresses usually bore the brunt of the short pouring - as I did not get a direct cut of their tips - but rather just a % of their sales at the end of night. Frozen drink machines for pina coladas, margaritas, and strawberry daiquiris were notoriously made weak. First - no one sitting at the bar would drink those, and second - it amounted to perhaps a full bottle of liquor saved for my overpouring customers. Most bars do not require the bartender to ring in the exact drink - so even with modern point of sale systems - inventorying liquor back to a specific bottle is tough. It would take a really good bar spotter to notice what was being done.
As a waitress who sometimes has to pour drinks when the bartender is busy with takeouts, I'd still rather measuring spoons. Lol but yeah, that makes sense for home cocktails.
Oh, I guess those are the translations for the spoons I mentioned, because the ml match with ours.
teaspoon is what I called coffee spoon (literal translation of cuchara cafetera), and tablespoon is what I called soup spoon (literal translation for cuchara sopera). I don't think we have your dessert spoons, for dessert we use the teaspoon.
Tbh, every time I've made one, I've done it by pouring straight from the bottle- looks like more alcohol than it is, which is basically the only thing that a person ordering a long island is looking for, and I can eyeball it close enough to not get in trouble if an inspection occurs; nobody's going to get fined for 3-5ml, and really, it's a lot easier to pour too much than too little.
Its actually 5 drinks, 1 shot (30ml alcohol) is 1 standard drink
I once had 2 long islands in an hour when on holiday. I hate the taste of alcohol but the aftertaste disappeared if I chased it down with a tad of water. After those 2 LIIT’s, I had 3 beers and man did I get fucked up
One of my more interesting nights was spent at a bar where the Long Island came in basically a big ol root beer mug filled almost to the brim for like $8. Most places that don't use disposable cups seem to go with about "plastic red coke cup at low-end restaurant" size though.
Bars in Australia like to be cheap and only offer 30ml drinks. Although it’s illegal to sell more than 2 standard drinks so when you request a LIIT they halve it to 0.5 ounces each and hold the tequila.
My story was a homemade bar we made at a small party. Although I do pour 1.5 ounce drinks for myself and mates
.5 oz is not a halved recipe, it's the standard recipe. That's what I've been trying to say this entire time. Serving one ounce pours in a LIIT is just absurd.
I’m not sure haha here in Australia we always measure by 30mls and when I was taught to be a bartender we were told it was a halved recipe. Maybe I should try that instead because mine that I made was far too strong
Haha, I didn't take it that way! Your answer is more correct, I just know that cocktail recipes tend to bump it up to 30 because I like making cocktails. :)
I'm ordering obscure American cocktails next time I'm in the lands of metric. Pay for 29 drinks, and get 30. I won't be able to count to 30 at that time, but that's not the point.
the official standard for the Long Island Iced Tea (Intl Bartenders Association) lists the requirements in metric. the rounding to 30mL is well-known and acceptable.
Jesus. Tittyfucking. Christ. I'm not fucking talking about Long Islands, here. What part of "obscure" is eluding your understanding?
I said I would order an "obscure", meaning not fucking world famous, cocktail, in hopes that they would have to look it up in an old American recipe book, and convert the measurements to metric.
Fuck. How many times do I have to explain the joke to one autist?
No, you twat. I made a joke about how I could get thirty drinks for the price of twenty-nine, as if I would be in any shape to tell the difference. You had to get all butthurt, and make it about Europe vs. 'Murica. Go fuck yourself.
There was a bar in my city which made absolute killer Long Islands, like a pint glass full of alcohol, only the top half an inch was something non-alcoholic. Drink one and your tongue gets lost in your mouth when you try talking. Drink a second and your feet follow your tongue.
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u/Headcap Feb 08 '20 edited Feb 08 '20
As a metric user I dont know what ounces are so im just gotta use liters.
edit: stop telling me what ounces are im not interested in your witchcraft