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Jiggers

To find the best tool for measuring spirits for cocktails, we had to rejigger our expectations.

|Published on May 29, 2019

What We Learned

A jigger is a handy bar tool used to measure small volumes of liquids for cocktails. Conventional jiggers are roughly hourglass-shaped, with one end designed to measure a larger volume (most commonly 1.5 or 2 ounces) and the other to measure a slightly smaller one (usually 1 ounce). But in recent years, several innovative new jiggers and small-volume measuring tools have appeared on...

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