Secret #7 of the 44 Secrets of Mixology. Buy a lot of fancy tools. You wouldn’t think that combining liquids in a glass would require the same amount of tools found in a typical operating room, but that just shows what a neophyte you really are. Along with the usual shakers, tongs, jiggers, peelers, muddlers, stirrers, whizzers and wompers, you’ll need an ice pick, a burlap bag, and a hammer. You probably didn’t know this, but ice you stab from a large block then put in a burlap bag and smash with a hammer is the best kind of ice. No one knows why, but it is!
