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    Feb 09, 2021 3 minutes
    COMPILED BY ANNIE PEITO

    Weighing Out Fizzy Liquids for Cocktails

    When adding seltzer, soda, tonic water, or prosecco (or any other carbonated drink) to cocktails, Josh Starmer of Chapel Hill, N.C., likes to put the cocktail glass on a kitchen scale and measure by weight ounces as a proxy for fluid ounces. This way, more bubbles make it into the final drink, since he doesn’t have to pour the effervescent beverage into a measuring cup first.

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