The other apparatus consists of a burette, beaker and stirrer. A now-rare device, the champagne stirrer or champagne swizzle stick is a stick. A magnetic stirrer is another example of magnetic coupling. The closed bag and the stirrer are pre-sterilized. The producers always intended Abby to be the "pot stirrer". One of his first bands was Doc "Soul Stirrer" Young and The We Four Trio. There was a Northern English dialect word "spartle", for stirrer.