Extracting the olive or onion from its jar is the hardest part of making a martini! A regular teaspoon is totally inefficient as a fishing pole. If you’re lucky enough to have an iced tea spoon which has an extra-long handle you’re one step ahead of the game. But unless you put your tongue at just the right angle of the side of your mouth and hold your breath for at least 20 seconds you’re in for at least 3 attempts at getting that little sucker up to the top of the jar where you can grab it before it slides off. Your guests shouldn’t see you sweat getting the garnish out. A spoon allows for too much juice hence the dirty martini. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Right? All self respecting martini drinkers/makers should have a pickle pincher. It’s a plastic gadget that works like the game at the carnival that picks up dolls in the cube for a quarter (maybe now it’s a dollar!) It can pick up olives, onions, cherries, pickles. It has other uses, too: It will remove hair clogs from the drain, rescue beads out of the kids’ ears/noses, pick up the drowned earring from the toilet. How have you lived this long without one?
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