Bar spoon

A bar spoon (English bar spoon or cocktail spoon ) is a predominantly -used in the manufacture of cocktail spoon, which consists mostly of polished stainless steel. As Barwerkzeug the bar spoon is not to be confused with long-stemmed cocktail spoons ( about 20 cm), which are used for stirring mixed drinks and spooning out of small fruit ingredients etc. by the guest itself and its stem is formed partly as a small drinking tubes ( cocktail drinking spoon ).

Bar spoon are very long-stemmed (often more than 20 cm, up to 30 cm) and can thus also to stir the ingredients in very tall, slender glasses are used. They are often formed with a spirally twisted handle to increase their grip strength and they may use to whisking drinks at the same time. In addition, the upper end of which is often equipped with a small metal or plastic plunger for crushing fruit, etc.. The bar spoon is also used (eg, as in B52 ) to achieve in the way of preparation of the Pousse Café the desired stable stratification of the individual ingredients by letting them run slowly over the back of Barlöffels in the glass.

As a " bar spoon " also a certain quantity of an ingredient in cocktail recipes is called. This unit is equivalent to the unit teaspoon and corresponds to approximately 5 mL or 0.5 cl In recipes is often the abbreviation BL used. In English recipes, the unit is often abbreviated to BS or TS.

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