 Welcome to Drinks Made Easy, today we're going to take a look at using a cocktail shaker tin. Now you may have seen people shaking like this, like this or my preferred way like this. Let's go over it real quick. When you're shaking like this, you are fighting gravity. The whole point of using ice is to integrate the ingredients of your cocktail and ideally you want it moving back and forth in the most efficient way. So when you're shaking like this, not super efficient and especially if you're making a drink like a whiskey sour, you're not going to get as good of a cocktail. Now a shake like this, much better, especially if it's moving back and forward, where you're getting the ice movement to help you integrate all of your flavor components, however, if you're making something like a whiskey sour, there's pressure building up in this tin. And these two hands here are not providing a lot of pressure to keep the tin together so it can explode in your face, which is never a good look. So you're running much more of a risk of injury with this technique because of repetitive stress to your wrists. That's why I prefer using this technique, one hand in front, one in back. So if you're making a drink that builds up pressure, you don't have to worry about the tin exploding. And when you lock your wrists and move the cocktail shaker forward to back, you're not putting that repetitive stress on your wrists. The other thing that I've seen and I have seen some bartenders injure themselves using this is when they're shaking with two tins, where they do not separate how the weight is going. So they just have both tins going in the same direction. This puts an incredible amount of pressure on your back. If you've got four drinks plus ice, two in each, that's a lot of weight. What I recommend is to have them going in different directions to balance out the amount of stress that's going on into your shoulders and back. Do you have a way that you like shaking? Feel free to talk about it in the comments below and let's start a conversation. Cheers from Drinks Made Easy.