Last week when I made the Raspberry Lemonade, I showed a few of the bar tools I had. While going over them I had thought about explaining in a bit of detail what each was and what it was used for. Then, I realized that it would make a much more interesting post on its own. There’s tons of different tools that we use in the bar, different variations in them, different styles, and I thought it could be interesting to break it down. Luckily, my copy of the Ultimate Bar Book has a comprehensive list of different bar essentials, however, as you’ll soon see, some of them aren’t exactly essential. I intend to cover all of them listed in the book, let you know some alternatives if you don’t have them, and if I personally find any use with them, either at home or at work. I decide to present this on a slideshow, which you can see a video of below. I recommend pausing on the slides if you’d like to read more.
To do this, I made a slideshow on Canva. I found images of every tool from Cocktail Emporium, a website that sells bartending equipment and ingredients. Making the slideshow on Canva was easy and simple, it worked about as well as PowerPoint. I edited the background out with Photopea, a free alternative to photoshop that I highly recommend. I had heard about it before, but this is the first time I tried it out. To my surprise, it could perform many of the same functions as photoshop, though it was a tiny bit clunky. Having a bit of graphic design experience definitly helped, but if you want to try it yourself, theres a few decent guides out there to help you out.. Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t easily just add the slideshow onto a blog post. So instead, I created a video, also on Canva, by taking screen shots of each slide and edit it together. This unfortunalty made the show a bit clunky, with out the fancy effects and transitions I added to make the slideshow flow a bit better.