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Glass Shapes Can Make Us Drink Too Much
Roland Piquepaille writes "Some people think that a glass is half empty while others see it as half full. But one thing is sure: some glasses are fuller than others. According to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), researchers from Cornell University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that short glasses are more likely to lead to over-indulgence. In fact, people pour 20-30 percent more alcohol into short, wide glasses than into tall, narrow ones of the same volume. The researchers obtained similar results with students and professional bartenders. So, as New Year's Eve is coming, remember to use only tall glasses for your party!!!"
You're supposed to use a measuring thing, or optics, not measure it out by hand. That's just asking for arguments.
This is what's taught in most bartending schools,
Bartending school? If you need to go to school to work out how to pull a lever, operate a till and get packets of pork scratchings from a box on the floor, then you've got problems. What next, burger flipping school?
Evidently "bartender" does not mean the same where you are as it does where I am. Here, a bartender is generally a mixologist - someone skilled at and knowledgeable about mixing drinks.
Unless you live in some pretentious yuppie place where drinks are $20 each I very much doubt in order to be a barman you need to mix complicated drinks. Even in America, I doubt that when Bill the redneck from Texas goes into a bar after a shift at the hardware store he asks for a 'Lemon cheesecake martini'.
Like I said, in America "bartender" is a very different job from much of the rest of the world.
In the rest of the world we drink beer, wine and spirits, maybe Americans are different.