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(The first I could find is this lovely “apparatus for mixing drinks” by W.

The new method became much more common throughout the remainder of the 19th century and spurred quite a few patents related to this new style of mixing drinks. Rumor has it an Innkeeper decided to make “a bit of a show” by placing a smaller cup inside the larger and shaking. Until the mid 1800’s, bartenders often mixed drinks by pouring them between who cups. “The cocktail shaker can be traced to 7000 BCE in prehispanic Mexico and South America, where the jar gourd was used as a closed container.” ( Source) But as a tool behind the bar, it’s much more recent. If you think of a cocktail shaker as a “container used to mix a liquid” then you can argue that they have been in use for thousands of years. (Note: it’s actually more complicated than that and if you’re into nerdy cocktail science, you should totally read this.) That’s because every cocktail recipe assumes 25-40% water dilution as a result of shaking. In fact if you followed a cocktail recipe exactly and excluded the ice, mixed it all together really thoroughly and put it in the fridge to cool down, you’d find it probably tastes much too strong. Wait, what? Like, on purpose? Yep, it’s a little known fact that cocktails actually need to be diluted in order to taste right. The result? One very cold drink, and very quickly! It Helps to Quickly Dilute the Drink Shaking the cocktail makes the ingredients pass over the ice much more frequently and the ice breaks into smaller pieces, offering more cold surface area. Why? While that ice is acting as a blender ball to help mix ingredients together, it’s also chilling down the ingredients as they pass by. Cocktail shakers are extremely good at making lukewarm ingredients (like booze) really cold and really fast.

While you’re stirring away on your iced tea, that bartender has already finished three cocktails and probably cleaned the bar as well. As a result, your liquid moves around a whole lot more than it would with just a spoon. The reason? All of that ice in the shaker acts a bit like a “blender ball”. The cocktail shaker evolved as a great tool to expedite the stirring process behind the bar and (let’s not forget) look pretty awesome while doing it. That’s a problem bartenders face all the time – cold ingredients take more effort to mix together. If you’ve ever tried mixing sugar into your iced tea, you’ve probably noticed you had to stir for-ev-er before it’d finally dissolve. A cocktail shaker is a special tool designed to do Three things: It Thoroughly Mixes Cold Beverages:

While we’ve probably all seen a picture of what a cocktail shaker looks like, (if not – you’re in luck, there are a lot of those images in this post!), it’s worth taking a second to go over the basics.