The Cocktail Kit

Raise Your Glass

America’s Test Kitchen and cocktails? You bet. This handsome set features everything you need to serve up the best-ever cocktails, from essential classics to brand-new test kitchen creations. All items come perfectly snug in a beautiful and sturdy America’s Test Kitchen box for easy storage or display (it also makes a great gift!).

"Worth its weight in gold for the practical cook who wants to feel confident about putting good food on the table."

— Detroit News

This Set Includes:

Cook Along with Bridget and Julia

Enjoy mastering a new recipe while tuning in to and following along with new episodes of America’s Test Kitchen with all-new recipes. Every recipe that has appeared on the show is in this cookbook, along with the test kitchen's indispensable notes and tips. You’ll also find a shopping guide that shows what ingredients the ATK Reviews team recommends so that you can re-create the exact dish you see on your screen.

New and Improved Shopping Guide

Enjoy mastering a new recipe while tuning in to and following along with new episodes of America’s Test Kitchen with all-new recipes. Every recipe that has appeared on the show is in this cookbook, along with the test kitchen's indispensable notes and tips. You’ll also find a shopping guide that shows what ingredients the ATK Reviews team recommends so that you can re-create the exact dish you see on your screen.

A Simple Citrus Peel

Hold a citrus strip horizontal, pith side facing you, near the surface of your cocktail. Pinch the zest to express oils onto the cocktail and then rub the outer edge of the glass with the peel.

This Kit Includes:

America’s Test Kitchen Etched Rocks Glasses, Set of 2
America’s Test Kitchen Engraved Bar Spoon
America’s Test Kitchen Cocktail Picks, Set of 4
How to Cocktail Book

Review Key:Good Fair Poor

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America’s Test Kitchen Etched Rocks Glasses

Baking

Also called old-fashioned glasses, these rocks glasses are essential for countless stirred or shaken cocktails usually served over ice. These short, thick-walled glasses allow room for chunky ice cubes and help insulate your cocktails served on the rocks.

Material: Etched Glass

Dimensions: 11 oz capacity, 3 in diameter, 3½ in height

Dishwasher Safe: Yes

MADE IN THE USA

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America’s Test Kitchen Engraved Bar Spoon

Performance

A long twizzle-handled stainless-steel bar spoon is essential to achieve maximum chilling with minimal dilution when stirring drinks with ice. Unlike, say, stirring a cup of coffee, applying some technique when stirring cocktails leads to better-tasting drinks. The elegantly twizzled long-handled bar spoon looks dramatic, but it allows you to stir cocktails efficiently with a few flicks of your wrist.

Material: Stainless Steel

Dimensions: 7¾ in length, 1 in width

Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Imported

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America’s Test Kitchen Cocktail Picks

Baking

When it comes to making cocktails at home, garnishes are often overlooked, skimped on, or simply skipped altogether. But cocktail garnishes should never be an afterthought, because they contribute far more than just decoration to a drink. Cocktail picks allow you to enjoy your garnishes without having to fish them out with your fingers. This set of four cocktail picks featuring a different engraved glassware choice on each pick does double duty, as a stylish garnish spear and “this cute design is mine” drink identifier.

Material: Stainless Steel

Dimensions: 4 in length, ¾ in width

Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Imported

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How to Cocktail Book

Durability

The first-ever cocktail book from America’s most-trusted test kitchen includes essential, canonical classics; twists on old favorites; and brand-new test kitchen creations. The recipes are organized by technique (stirring, shaking, muddling, blending, and more), with plenty of recipe step photos to light your way. For those who love a great DIY project, we offer up superior versions of vermouths, liqueurs, bitters, flavored syrups, and garnishes. Best of all, we’ve solved practical challenges such as how to make a wide array of cocktails without buying lots of hard-to-find bottles or specialty equipment. Also packed inside: recipes for heavenly snacks to serve alongside cocktails. Perfect for beginners and more experienced cocktail builders alike, this handsome hardcover book with beautiful photography makes a great gift (for yourself and your cocktail-loving friends).

Recipes: 150

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Item Number: CQ26

Top Tips For Transcendent Cocktails

Chill Your Glassware

Chilling your serving glasses, which takes only a few minutes, ensures that all that frosty goodness you’ve carefully created in the cocktail shaker or mixing glass won’t be lost by pouring your cocktail into a room-temperature glass.

It's All About the Technique

With a little practice, you can learn to keep the outer curved side of the spoon against the wall of the glass so the spoon glides around magically, almost of its own accord.

The Garnish Is Not An Afterthought

The next time you want to add a citrus twist, olive, cherry, onion, or other garnish to a drink, use a pick and get a little creative. We made accordion folds with lemon twists and even tied them in a little knot before spearing them. Think of the pick and garnish as signature bling for your cocktail.