Handling of Glassware and Storage

Handling of Glassware

1. Glassware is highly breakable and most delicate and expensive: hence most care has to be taken while handling glass equipment’s.

2. Glasses are normally stored in a glass pantry and should be placed upside down in single rows on paper-lined shelves, to prevent dust settling in them.

3. Tumblers should not be stacked inside one another as this may result in heavy breakages and accidents.

4. The appearance of the drink mainly depends on the glass and therefore, the glass should be sparkling clean and attractive in shape and style.

5. When glassware is machine or hand washed, each individual item must be polished and dried with a glass cloth made of linen, as water leaves stains on the glasses.

6. Glasses whether clean or dirty have to be handled by the base or stem, since the finger prints left on the glass necessitates polishing.

                         

STORAGE

Glassware is normally stored in a glass pantry and should be placed in single rows on paper lined shelves, upside down to prevent dust settling in them. for the purpose of stacking and storing glassware. Such racks are also a convenient method of transporting glassware from one point to another which prevents breakage. Tumblers should not be stacked inside one another as this may result in breakage.