The dropper bottle in two lines
This is the 100 millilitre graduated dropper bottle: the container for preparations dosed in drops, with a printed scale on the body so you can read what you have taken out.
Who it is for
For anyone working with ingredients that get counted rather than poured. Concentrated bitters, saline solutions, acid solutions, tinctures and extracts all go into a drink in tiny amounts, and getting them slightly wrong changes the result in a way anyone can taste.
Why drops, and why the scale matters
A twenty per cent saline solution goes into a drink at three or four drops: two more and the cocktail tastes salty, two fewer and nothing happens. At those quantities a jigger is no help, because its smallest marking is ten times the dose. The pipette solves how you take it out, the scale solves repeatability: knowing that a preparation has dropped by 5ml over a week tells you how much you are using, and lets you make tonight’s drink again tomorrow.
Specifications
- Capacity: 100ml
- Graduation: scale on the body
- Supplied with: dropper pipette
- Use: bitters, tinctures, saline and acid solutions
What goes inside
The solutions you make in house and use in drops. Saline, which is water and salt in a fixed ratio and works by raising the reading of the other flavours rather than by salting. Acid solution, which brings acidity where you do not want to add citrus volume. Tinctures, meaning alcoholic extracts of spices or herbs, which add scent without touching the structure of the drink. And house bitters, which are the same thing with more ingredients.
One hundred millilitres is the right size
Because a preparation used in drops lasts weeks, and a larger format means keeping a liquid around for months while it takes in air every time it is opened. With 100ml you make a little and often, which is how these solutions stay good. Anyone using several keeps four or five identical dropper bottles in a row on the station shelf, all labelled, and that is also why labels count more here than anywhere else: two clear liquids look the same.
How many drops make a dose
It depends on the pipette and on the density of the liquid, so there is no number that holds for everyone: a drop of a water based solution is around 0.05ml, one of an alcoholic tincture is smaller because alcohol has less surface tension. In practice the count has to be calibrated once on your own dropper bottle, by counting how many drops fill one millilitre on the scale, and then written on the label along with the contents. From then on the spec is written in drops and anyone can repeat it.
Care
Rinse the pipette at every change of contents, not only when the bottle empties: the rubber bulb at the top holds liquid and carries the scent of the last tincture into the new one. Hand wash in hot water, rinse thoroughly, dry completely before filling. If a preparation is strongly coloured it is worth giving it a dropper bottle of its own rather than alternating contents.
FAQ
How much does the dropper bottle hold? One hundred millilitres, with a graduated scale on the body.
What is the graduation for? To know how much you have taken out, which makes the dose repeatable from one night to the next.
Is it right for bitters? Yes, that is the commonest use along with saline and acid solutions.
Can it be used for syrups? Only for thin ones: a thick syrup does not rise well in the pipette.
How is it washed? By hand in hot water, paying attention above all to the pipette and its bulb.
The more you buy, the less you pay: 4 pieces -5%, 6 -7%, 8 -10%, on the same item.
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The other dosing containers are in the speed bottle category.
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