Essential Bar equipment and

tools list and their use

Cocktail shaker

• Cocktail shaker is used in bars to mix drinks (like Cocktails, Mocktail)

by shaking. It is basically made of stainless steel, plastic, glass.
• Ingredients are placed in a sealed shaker such as liquors, syrups, fruit
juices, and ice.  After vigorously shaking and mixing the drink, shakers
allow for easy pouring into the customer glass.
• There are three varieties of cocktail shakers are there
The Cobbler Shaker The Boston shaker: The French shaker:
Cocktail strainer

• Cocktail strainer is normally used to remove ice from mixed drinks as

it is poured into service glass. The strainer is placed over the mouth of
the shaker or glass in which drinks were prepared, small holes in the
strainer allow only drinks to pass as it is poured into the service glass.

• There are two common types of cocktail strainer are there

Hawthorne strainer: It is a disc with a Julep strainer: It is shaped like a bowl with a
handle and two or more stabilizing prongs. handle and will fit tightly into a mixing glass or
A metal spring fixed around the edge of shaker when inserted at the proper angle.
the rim rolls inward to fit inside the glass.  Liquid passes through holes or slits in the bowl.
 Waiter's friend/Corkscrew
• A most popular corkscrew used by service
staff with a knife on one side, nick grip on the
other side, and a lever in between, the spiral
at one end. This is a crossbar-type lever. It
requires a strong hand to operate. It should
have the perfect shape for operation. It goes
out of shape very soon.
• Corkscrew is basically used for drawing the
corks from wine bottles, it is consists of a
pointed metallic helix (often called the
"worm") attached to a handle, which the user
screws into the cork and pulls to extract it.
Wings Screw/Geared Wings

• Easy to handle with great mechanical

advantage by pressing downwards
both the arms. This can be carried in
pockets by a wine waiter.
 T-Shape wooden screw

• It is very simple, very difficult to use.

Mostly the bottle is held within the grip
of two knees, forcibly the cork is
dragged upward with a loud pop.
Spilling is often seen. For red wine with
sediments, this cannot be used.
 Bench corkscrew

• It is bench wise to hold the corkscrew, to

hold the corkscrew, then with a piston
corkscrew is pushed down and pulled up to
extract the cork while going in the
corkscrew moves to pierce through the
cork but while pulling up its staus stationary
and the cork is extracted thus. It is used in
the dispense bar.
 Broken cork extractor

• It is like a trident with a handle. When

inserted, there is a grip that traps the
cork inside and the reverse prongs
bites the cork from the bottom. Thus
the cork is pulled out.
 Bottle opener
• It is used for the removal of metal bottle
caps from the glass bottle. 

• There are many varieties of bottles

opener available in the market
Crown cork opener Speed opener/ bar blade

Wall - mount opener Multi opener

Thimble measure/Peg measure/Jigger
• It is used to measure the
amount of liquor, a measure
used in mixing drinks that
usually holds 1 to 2 ounces (30
to 60 milliliters). It has two
sides one is large, and another
is small
 Bar spoon

• It is a long-handled spoon for

stirring in mixing bar glass.
Cocktail Muddler

• A cocktail muddler is an essential bar

accessory when striving to make the
best drinks. It is used to mash or
muddle fruits, herbs, and spices in
the bottom of a glass to release their
flavor.
Wine Cradle

• A wine cradle is basically used to

hold the wine bottle as the image
showing above
 Vegetable knife/ pairing knife and chopping board

• A sharp stainless steel knife for

cutting citrus fruits as garnishes
with a Teflon chopping board with
protruding edges to prevent fruit
juices from flowing out
Melon baller

• Melon ballers are used to make balls of

melon from a scoop with a diameter
from around 1 centimeter to 3
centimeters (about 3/8 inch to 1 inch). 
Peeler

• It is consists of a metal blade with a

slot with a sharp edge attached to a
handle, used to remove skins of
vegetables or fruits, or to create a
ribbon of vegetables or fruits
Lemon zester /machine

• It is used for peeling lemon and

other vegetable skins
Fruit squeezer/ lemon squeezer

• Made of glass / plastic stainless

steel manually operated, lever-
operated, and electrically
operated. Fruit squeezes are
becoming very important in
modern bars as fresh fruits are
becoming more popular than
ever before
 Coasters
• Coasters have different meanings,
one for the bottles made of silver or
stainless steel, one for the glasses
made of pepper mats or blotting
paper. Frequently coasters are
supplied by beer products for
advertisement
 Optics/Optic measure
• These are inserted on bottlenecks for
smooth flow but some of them have the
unique feature of pouring exactly 30 or
60 ml. Every time it is invented on a glass.
Better ones, once inverted, intermittently
pour a drink exactly the same quantity
after a fixed pause. In India, optic
measures are neither recognized nor
standby excise department and by weight
and measure department. However, for
mixing cocktails or parties where drinks
are sold in turns of bottles, they can be
used unofficially.
Pour Spouts/ Pourer

• A speed pourer is a stainless steel or plastic spout that is inserted into
the most often used liquor bottles in a bar. It offers precise control
when pouring alcohol into a glass or cocktail shaker. 
Standard Metal Pourer Tapered Metal Pourer Screened Metal Pourer

Metal Flap Pourer Cap-On Pourer

Standard All-Plastic/ Rubber
Pourer
Wine cooler

• Made of glittering silver or barrel-

shaped wooden bucket for chilling
champagne, white, and rose wines.
Ice bucket/ Pail
• a cylindrical container holding
chunks of ice, either ready to serve
in drinks or for chilling a bottle of
wine in.
• They come in combination with an
ice tong and bottom strainer used
while serving sprit at the table.
Ice Tongs

• Tongs are basically used in bars

to lift the ice scoop from the
bracket into service glass
Ice crushers

• For crushing ice when needed to

prepare cocktails or mocktails such
as mojito.
Ice scoop

• Ice scoops are used for a variety of ice

handling tasks. An ice scoop can be
used to fill glassware with ice on the
buffet line or at the bar.
Refrigerator
• For storing fruits, vegetables,
juices, syrups, cream, cheese,
egg yolk, egg white, dry fruits,
milk, sauces.
Wine chiller

• Refrigerated bottle holders with

regulated temperature for
champagne, white and rose wine,
beer.
Bar Glass Rimmer

Rimmer is used to apply sugar and salt

to the rim of a glass. It usually consists
of one or more shallow plastic or metal
discs that the glass is turned upside
down into
Rubber Bar Mats
• Drinks are prepared on this
mat to prevent spills and
protect the wet glasses from
the surface of the bar. It is
made of thick and heavy
rubber, as they are small in
size easy to wash in the
basin.
Swizzle sticks and cocktail sticks
Straws
 Cleaning equipment
• i) Dishcloth: Sanitized and dried before use
• ii) Swabs
• iii) Dispense cloth
• iv) Glass cloth made of linen to prevent lint from spreading
on the glass.
• v) Brushes Soft brushes for cleaning glasses without
scratching and hard brushes for cleaning washbasin and
sinks.
• vi) Woolen mops for cleaning floors
• vii) Service cloth/Waiter,s cloth
• viii) Cleaning material: Water, soap, detergent, abrasives,
solvent, polishes, and bleaches.
• ix) Dustpan and brush.