Bar Skills Tips and Techniques
Once you complete your Bar skills course it is always handy to have a list of tips and techniques…
Infront Staffing are currently working on producing a series of Bar Skills courses to assist people in obtaining a bar job or employment in the hospitality industry or to further their skills while working in this industry. Once you obtain your certificate these tips and techniques you might find useful.
Below we have a few bar skills tips and techniques compiled by people who have worked in the hospitality industry and are a combination of practical ideas and “showy” displays.
- Ice: It is the most important ingredient in cocktails and often bars cannot supply ice of high enough quality to make perfect cocktails. One solution is to buy a chest freezer and refreeze your ice straight from the machine.
- Cream: The best tool for whipping cream is a whisk but if you don't have one then to replicate their effect for small quantities remove the spring from a clean hawthorn strainer and place with the cream in your shaker. Shake briskly for a minute and you will have perfectly whipped cream.
- Opening Champagne: Remove the foil and place the thumb of your non dominant hand in the punt of the bottle and hold upright. Grasp the loop of the cage and gently allow the bottle to spin on the thumb, with the correct wrist motion the bottle will spin and undo the cage. They are always twisted three times so three rotations of the bottle will always open it. This looks very stylish when performed correctly.
- Carving Citrus Twists: Creative citrus garnishes are an easy and effective way to add interest to a cocktail. They look hard to make but a surprisingly easy. Take time to remove a large section of zest to allow space to work and remove pith carefully to depth of 1mm. Any thinner and the twist will break and add very little oil. Draw your shape or word on paper to see the line to follow and then with the knife carefully gripped as a pen follow the original pattern on the twist. Hearts, Flowers, Stars and initials are all easy.
So just a few bar skills tips and techniques for you to use and perfect once you find your perfect job in the hospitality industry.
Once you have masters your bar skills and are feeling confident then why not try this very impressive way of opening a champagne bottle: Remove all the foil on your bottle of Champagne. Locate the seam of the bottle and run the blade of the sword gently along this to encourage a slight excitation of the champagne. Remove the cage and wrap the bottle in 2 napkins. Take the sword and run the blade FLAT down the neck of the bottle. Very little force is required and make sure that you are pointing away from every one. The cork and the top section of the neck (just where the cage is tightened) will fly off. With practice this can be performed with much smaller objects but the sword always looks best.
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