Edison2What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?
One of those cocktail stirring spoons with a round handle. Makes stirring a glass full of ice extremely easier compared to normal spoon handles. In contrast, I found mixing glasses and cocktail shakers fairly optional (and those tend to be more expensive than $20 anyway if they’re decent quality, anyway).
Apparently there’s a collector’s club for these, but none of them displayed in photos were the twisted kind, so I didn’t link there.
Not a plastic swizzle stick, a bar spoon. They are stainless steel and have various ends. This is the teardrop, makes stirring ice easier. There’s also a coin (flat disc on the end that op was talking about), that is used for muddling and can also be used to stir ice, and the trident used to get garnishes out of jars like cherries and olives. Source: I am a bartender
Ah, I’m no bartender but every cocktail kit referred to then interchangeably. I was thinking of the spoon style but ironically ran out of metaphorical spoons while trying to find a good example. Thanks.
I bought a pack of dessert spoons at Walmart years ago. About 7.5 inch long or 19cm