Engraved Old Fashioned Glass Tattoo 330ml (Pack of 6)

For anyone treating the glass as an ingredient in the recipe. It is a choice to make with your eyes open, because decoration this present is not neutral: it adds a great deal to some drinks and takes away from others, and the difference shows the moment the glass reaches the table.

In its favour it works like this: it multiplies the reflections and gives the service an immediate character, which in a room with atmosphere is what you are after. Against it, it competes with the contents: on a layered drink, or one with a considered garnish, the glass takes the scene that belonged to the cocktail. The practical rule in the trade is that heavily worked glasses suit drinks of one colour. A whisky, a Negroni, an Old Fashioned are uniform, and there the cutting adds without confusing; on a two colour cocktail the pattern breaks the reading and the layering work is lost.

There is a second thing to weigh, and it is the light in the room. Cutting works by refraction, so it needs a source striking it: under bar lighting the Tattoo is the glass noticed first, while in near darkness it gives back far less than the catalogue promises. Anyone working a deliberately dark room gets more from thick, smooth glass, which reflects the little light available instead of breaking it up, or from irregular relief, which always has some facet angled the right way.

• Capacity: 330ml (337ml on the supplier’s spec sheet)
• Format: double old fashioned
• Pack quantity: 6 glasses
• Decoration: elaborate cutting over the whole wall
• Use: vintage cocktails, whisky and amber spirits
• Base: solid, suited to muddling
• Dishwasher safe: yes, rinsing first after sweet liqueurs

Take the Tattoo old fashioned if

If you serve drinks of one colour, you have light striking the bar and you want a glass with a character people recognise. For layered or heavily garnished cocktails, a plain or lightly fluted model leaves more room for the contents and does not compete with the garnish.

The format: 330ml, the middle of the double

Three hundred and thirty millilitres is the size that takes a single 5 centimetre cube with the right amount of liquid, and it is why this band became the standard on modern bars. Below 320 the large cube fits but eats into the measure; above 400 the glass starts asking for longer drinks so it does not look empty.

Care

The denser the decoration, the more it holds: that rule covers all worked glassware. With syrups and thick liqueurs a rinse before washing is not optional, because dried sugar inside the cutting only comes out by hand and a hot cycle fixes it rather than dissolving it.

FAQ

Is the Tattoo old fashioned right for layered cocktails? Less so than a plain model. The dense cutting breaks the reading of the layers: on drinks of one colour it works well.

What is the true capacity? The name says 330ml, the supplier’s spec sheet says 337ml. It is the same measure rounded differently.

Can it go in the dishwasher? Yes, with the care to rinse first when you have been working with sweet liqueurs.

Can it be used every day? Yes, the decoration does not mind washing: it only asks for that rinse before the cycle.

Does it take a large ice cube? Yes, 330ml is the size that holds a single 5 centimetre cube with the measure.

The more you buy, the less you pay: 4 packs -5%, 6 -7%, 8 -10%, on the same item.

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The comparison between decorations, from plain to full cut, is in the old fashioned glass guide, along with the table of capacities and uses.