Pornstar martini glasses

The workable size sits between 20 and 26 cl. The recipe comes out at around twelve centilitres, so in a 20 cl bowl it stands full and in a 33 cl bowl it looks stingy. If you go for a coupe, you want a shape with a rim that turns slightly inwards: it carries the passion fruit and holds the foam together. A classic martini bowl with a straight V shape works too, although the fruit slides towards the middle faster there.

After that you choose on stability. Coupes have a low centre of gravity and tip over less easily than a pointed martini bowl, which matters at a busy party. Nick and Nora glasses of 15.5 cl are the nicest option if you prefer to pour smaller and top up more often. Watch the stem as well: a thicker stem is less elegant but survives the dishwasher better, and for a cocktail that crosses the bar twenty times an evening that is the deciding factor.

Chill the glass for five minutes in the freezer, or fill it with ice and water while you shake. The cocktail goes into the glass without ice, so all the cold has to come from the glass and the shaker. Tip the ice water out, shake the glass dry and only then strain into it. A frosted glass keeps the cocktail at temperature noticeably longer than one at room temperature, and with twelve centilitres and no ice that buys you a few extra minutes of drinking pleasure.

Shake a pornstar martini hard and short with vanilla vodka, passion fruit puree, lime juice and sugar syrup, and double strain so no seeds get through. Lay the passion fruit half rounded side down on the foam and set the shot of prosecco beside it, not in it. The same bowl then serves for an espresso martini or a dry martini, the latter being stirred rather than shaken.

Stemmed cocktail glasses almost always break in the same place: where the bowl meets the stem. That rarely happens while pouring and nearly always in the dishwasher rack, where stems knock against each other. Give them room and use a compartment rack if you wash a lot at once.

Passion fruit and lime leave acid behind that eventually dulls the glass, so rinse them briefly before they go into the machine. Store them bowl up so the rim rests on nothing, because a damaged rim is the end of the road for a glass your lips run along. Polish afterwards with a lint-free cloth while the glass is still lukewarm.

Looking for a different shape for the same cocktail? They sit side by side. The classic V-shaped martini glasses have their own page, as do the wider champagne coupe glasses and the smaller Nick and Nora glasses. The shot of prosecco that goes alongside is poured from a small shot glass. Already have the glassware but missing the shaker, the fine strainer and the jigger? Then have a look at the cocktail shakers, where you will also find complete bar sets. And if you want to take in the whole list at once rather than a single recipe, all the proportions are on the cocktail pages.