Pitcher rinsers for cocktail bar & and small rinser redesign to prevent clogs

I was talking to Gregoire, in Singapore, about our pitcher rinser. He was asking lots of questions, and I asked him what he was using it for.  It turns out he wants to create a coffee bar, and also a cocktail bar prep area, and have them match.

And… that's exactly what I've done for myself recently.  Here are two photos of Bug's cocktail prep area:

The pitcher rinser we sell is a bit more expensive than most, because I specified all-stainless-steel for all parts. At a recent demo I gave at a London café, I broke their rinser, and it was partially made of plastic (most are) and had to pay to have it repaired.

At any rate, I recently made a cocktail-bar cart for my partner, complete with rinser, glass storage, a knockbox. The knockbox is for banging out ice, mint, fruit slices and other things that get stick in a shaker.  There's a “magic bullet” blender under the counter.  Four bottles of the most common alcohols she uses (gin, vodka, whisky) are upside down in an automatic shot dispenser.

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Small Rinser Redesign

In other news, at the World of Coffee trade show, I found that my single-dose-bean-weighing was often causing coffee beans to fall into the holes of my pitcher rinser. The beans then float into the drain tube and clog it.  Epic failure for a production setting.

So, another “lesson learnt” at the trade show, has us moving to much smaller holes in our pitcher rinser top, to prevent this.  We're getting our sample of the new design this week.

#rinser #R&D

German: Milchkännchen-Spüler für Cocktailbars und Neugestaltung kleiner Spüler zur Vermeidung von Verstopfungen

Updated 2022/08/02