This cannot be rocket science, as I know they are used to deprive me of an over-pour of liquor in bars all the time. Need a 1.5 ounce pourer that will fix a wine bottle neck and will actually work. Bought a couple of the type that have metal ball bearings in the mechanism. They look good, seem well made, don’t work worth a damn. Constantly stuck in either the open or closed position, so I either get no pour or an endless pour. Is there something I need to be doing to these (oil them?!) to make them work. Or is there a better variety that someone has found to be dependable?
It’s not suited for commercial service demands probably, but if you’re just portioning for a small tasting group, check out the Centellino:
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with the ball bearing ones, you might need to “prime” then…plug the end and flip it all the way upside down…then it might work better
When I was in the restaurants, I tried those ball bearing measured pourers–Precision Pour are supposed to have been the best, even–and had the same issues Chad notes. Designed for distillates, I think all the particulates in wine wreaks havoc on the mechanism. Even practicing priming, I couldn’t get them to pour consistently, and gave them up after some months of struggle.
Another trick - put a simple pour spout in the bottle then practice pouring until you time how long it takes to pour out 1.5 oz. This is a form of controlled free-pouring
Local “Wine Club” has a self service tasting bar and they have little white lines etched on glasses at the 1 1/2 oz pour.
Btw the ball bearing pourers work great with oilve oil, exactly 1 tbsp per pour.
this is good too…once you’ve poured a bunch the same, it just gets easier to know when to stop…especially if you are in a tasting room, using the same glasses all the time…you’ll end up figuring out how high to fill em up…also, if you use one of those white plastic tops that slows the pour, it helps a bunch
and while I’ve used the them before, using a pour spout really can be annoying, and I would try and find an alternative solution if you could