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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!!!"
Shouldn't that be "use only short glasses"? It's New Year's Eve, after all.
Do you mean by "drink too much??"
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Silly me. I thought it was the alcoholism.
The real trick to this is the "four pour". With a certain standardized spout that they attach to bottles in most bars, you start pouring, count to four, and you're pretty close to the 1.5 ounce mark. This is what's taught in most bartending schools, and if the bartenders stick with it instead of trying to eyball the amount, they get it right much more often.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Use short glasses when someone else is buying the liquor, tall when you are.
Use short for your date, tall for you.
--MarkusQ
P.S, To my wife (who also reads /.): I'm just kidding of course. I never did that. Especially since I met you.
Heh, given the lack of women here at Georiga Tech, it is no wonder that the only possible research is in analyzing alchohol and alchohol glasses.
The only other possible research alternative would have been to analyze network cable lengths, but then you get into cliched-joke territory.
Funny anecdote - a graduate student here asked a prof for a good hangout, and he recommended a place right across our research lab. Dude took his girlfriend there, only to realize that it's a strip club. Hilarity ensued. And of course, the same prof usually offered free beer and pizza if you came to his saturday meetings.
Now you know why they do research into alchohol glasses here at Tech.
After extenshive testing I haff determined that the shshshort glasshes are the besht for extenshive testing porpuses.
Now where the hell did I put my pants?
Faversham, Mr. Domo.
keep us from drinking anything at all.
One of my friends has taken to ordering Jack Daniels, chilled, in a martini glass. Most bars charge you for one shot but pour at least two--even bartenders who can pour a good 4-count will pour it, take a look, think it looks empty, and double it.
rage, rage against the dying of the light
In the UK all pint glasses (and other sized glasses) that alcohol is served in are engraved with the size and an official coat of arms - it's illegal to use any non-standard glasses.