Washing our glasses

[ralfy legend]

It’s probably been asked before but how do we all wash our whisky glasses? I Only use warm water and my fingers but many I hear use there dishwasher, seen one done in a dishwasher and it’s very clean, for the ones who use dishwasher is that with just hot water or do you add anything?

[TheMaster]

Hot soapy water, first thing washed, rise well, dry first. Never had a problem.

[Dave h]

Dishwasher, for me in with a full load of plates, cups, cuttlery, you name it....
Use the more expensive dishwasher tablets, quantum or something like that name, find they are better at leaving no residue compared to the standard tablets. Not too hot though.
Sparkling, no need to dry, no residue.

However I have been known to use the same glass on 3 nights in a row without a wipe or clean. The glass holds odour all day long from the night before (a little sniff to remember the last pour from last night) and then pour your next dram for the new evening

Dare say most pubs use dishwashers for all there glasses, but still you get the grubby lipstick stained glass on the £10 dram!

[Kilchosam]

I used to use warm running water and my fingers to clean my glencairns but one of them shattered during the middle of me cleaning it. It gave me a deep cut right up the inside of my middle finger and it had blood litterally streaming from the cut. I had to go to A&E and get it glued up and paper stitches put on it.

Be careful if you use your fingers to clean your glencairns!

[Kray]

Good old Fairy liquid and hot water.

[MattS]

Usually wash by hand but will be mindful of the breakage warning.

I have sometimes put glasses in the dishwasher and no issue with Aldi tablets Magnum All-In-1.

[BigShing]

Glencairns are extremely sturdy glasses to be fair, I know the Whiskey Vault did a video where they dropped various types of glasses from a table onto an outdoor concrete floor and the Glencairn was the only glass that didn't break. I've got a couple that have been washed by hand for four yrs now with barely a scratch on them, You should always be careful when washing any glass of course because the risk is there, but I think you'd have to be really unlucky to have a Glencairn shatter on you unless there was a clear sign it was on its way out.

Now, standard whisky tasting/copita glasses on the otherhand, you've only got to look at one of them and they'll break!

[Kilchosam]

[ralfy legend]

And of course some weigh heavier so that means thicker, some Glencairn’s are easy to break,

[BigShing]

Yeah I remember someone posting about their glasses being different weights, was it you ralfy? I still think you would be unlucky to have a fragile Glencairn glass, all the ones I've ever used have been pretty sturdy, but at the end of the day it's not the thickest of glasses around the rim area so a lighter one might be thin enough that you can snap it if not cleaning carefully I guess.

I took miine out tonight and weighed them to compare:

I have two basic Glencairn glasses ordered as a two-pack from a wineware store online: One was 140g, the other was 138g (the lighter maybe has some nicks in it).

I have two Machir Bay branded Glencairns from the Machir Bay Gift Pack: Both are 130g
I have one Laphroaig branded Glencairn from the Laph store: 130g
I have two Whisky Birmingham Festival branded Glencairns: Both are 130g

All these glasses are sturdy and really only the Machir Bay ones haven't been used, so they've all served me well, but for whatever reason the bog standard glasses are a little heavier than the branded ones.

[ralfy legend]

Yes bigshing it was me, the lighter ones of mine was about 135 to 138, I’ve got one at 165 which was my first from a charity shop at 40p hehe, the crystal cut I think was 250 plus as it should be, , last Monday I spotted 6 glencairns in another charity shot so I bought 5 of them, couldn’t resist at 50p a glass 🥃

[BigShing]

Is that 165g one a plain glass or is it branded? If it's plain I wonder if it might be an older glass and earlier Glencairns were a little thicker?

[ralfy legend]

The 165 glencairn is defo thicker on the lip, it’s got some emblem on it but not whisky related, I just checked on the bottom of it and it says the blenders malt glass where as the others say the Glencairn glass,

[ralfy legend]

Just a question! Is there a cut crystal Copita ? I haven’t seen one, my cut crystal Glencairn’ is superp I love it but nosing wise it’s not as good as the standard glencairn in my view of course .