For the modern, everyday cocktail bar, this set of stainless steel shaking tins is the gold standard. One tin is small and the other is large—typically 18 and 28 ounces respectively—and they’re loved for their relative durability and efficiency. This style of Boston shaker usurped the glass-on-tin style (large metal tin and glass pint glass) in the early aughts during New York City’s cocktail renaissance.
Like the glass-on-tin Boston shaker, the tins create a vacuum-tight seal when pressed together, keeping the contents of the vessel secure and ready to be shaken without spilling. They can also easily fit within one hand so that a bartender can double shake (i.e a set of tins in each hand) when service is bustling. But unlike the glass-on-tin Boston shaker, the tin-on-tin shaker can’t smash into bits when dropped or hit too hard.