Try These Recipes with Your Shaker

This is totally normal. When you shake a drink, the rapid cooling from the ice makes the parts contract into each other and seal shut. For a Boston shaker, find that frosty line and hit it with one palm while holding with your other hand. I know, I know. It’s hard to explain, so we’ve made a video that you can find here. If that doesn’t work, try running warm water over the outside of the metal for a few seconds or tapping gently around the seal with your palm. A little patience (and warmth) usually does the trick.

For a non-A Bar Above cobbler shaker… Honestly, that’s a tough one (literally), which is the reason we generally dislike cobblers. (The shakers, not the people. They’re rad.) But our cobbler shaker is designed with specialty gaskets that will prevent your shaker from freezing shut in the first place, so you don’t even have to worry about it.