Weights and measures

You see, I'm not one of those "precision" people in the kitchen. If I need to boil something in water, I don't care how much water the instructions tell me to boil — I just fill the pot until it looks like there's enough. I add spices in the "about that much" measurement; even if I cook a frozen pizza, the cook time on the package doesn't match the actual time that I cook the thing.

So I didn't pay much attention to the ounces contained in my shot glasses when mixing drinks. Even if I wasn't pouring precisely 1.5 ounces of bourbon into my highball, for instance, I could still keep the ratios intact.

And then I came to the Long Island Iced Tea and the Hurricane.

Even with the mixers, the concoctions I came up with could've sterilized surgical equipment. So I took it upon myself to determine my shot glasses' volumes, which turned out to be 2 ounces. Which means in both of the drinks mentioned above, I was pouring 10 ounces of alcohol into a 16-ounce drink.

That's not drinking. That's "Leaving Las Vegas" territory. However, I can now say that my steak knives are sterile.