Customer Reviews:
 The only April 6, 2007
Maria Suarez (CA)
9 out of 33 found this review helpful
Lots of things now are shaped and strange and made for just what you want to do with them. I could probably buy a machine to make me coffee and drinks, but they would bothe taste awful. I show a show though once about Las Vegas and the way they dispense drinks through the same tube, but have a way so that they never mix at all. Air or something. They never even touch, so maybe that could be in a machine in your house, but regardless, it isn't now, and a plain silver shaker is still the best way to make a Martini in my book. No tops or strains or things to get in the way of it, just a nice simple shaker (I keeep mine in a separate cabinet, with the gin, etc.) There is just no other way to go. Classic. A little ice and gentle patience and a single olive.
I would make them for my father every day while mother was messing with her brussel sprouts, or my brother, or something loud and messy in the other room. But it was quiet the way I did it, hardly shaking the ice around at all. Clear, cold gin with a smell that was sort-of an unsmell, it took all of the other smells out of my nose. He never spoke when I handed it to him. As a rule he'd put his hat and coat up and sneak close to me so only I would know he was home, and he'd smile when he took the glass, both of our hands toucing it and the coldness putting a silence on us that kept us on our own for a moment, before he straightend up and strode into the kitchen and yelled and kissed my Mother and started the regular, coarse evening.
A Boston Shaker and a glass. There is no other way to go.
 Cracked in the Dishwasher November 11, 2008
Marco (San Francisco, CA)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Boston shakers tend to be expensive, so this product was at a reasonable price. After all, it's only a stainless steel cup.
Well, it worked fine. I had no complaint when using it to mix drinks. I would often place it in the top rack of the dishwasher to clean it. One day, I found that it was cracked when I pulled it out of the dishwasher. I guess it couldn't handle the temperature. Maybe that's why other shakers are so expensive.
This product is useless if you cannot place it in the top rack of the dishwasher.
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