Equipment Expert's Top Pick for Liquid Measuring Cups 

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Yeah, I did. I have four of them.

@@JohnLight1 Me too, 1, 2, 4 and 8 cup ancient PYREX.

Always…!

Not me, I looked at it and went: it's shitty soda lime glass that will explode.

No question

I have an older (25+ years old) version of the Pyrex, and it has a scale to be read from above on the inside of the cup. And the markings have not faded in the least.

@@ralphkern380 mine are every bit that old as well. Love Pyrex!

Pyrex fan I am Have had Mine forever too and have given them as gifts as well

Also have both, also love both and knew they would win!

Me too but the paint doesn't last in the dw

Issue is, that the Pyrex labware you were buying, was borosilicate glass. Quality stuff, made to last when going from the heat of a bunsen burner, then having cold chemicals added or into a chiller. The new Pyrex glassware is no longer borosilicate. It is now made to a price point, of soda-lime glass. The markings are pretty good, but it no longer has the temperature shock resistance it once did!

Yes, the numbering is 'baked' into the surface.

@@dreamingrightnow1174 I don't know about that. My old measuring Pyrex cups have recently started to fade, so much so that I need to replace them.

Yep, I'm here looking because the markings have worn off my Pyrex cup, after 20+ years.

I had the same problem. In time loads of tiny cracks formed. If you never use it to measure hot liquids and hand-wash it holds up better. Forget about using it in the microwave.

I used one for about a year and then the handle just snapped off completely

I agree about the cracks forming, but I also had issues with the markings washing off after a year or so in the OXO. I'm Pyrex all the way

I use the OXO most of the time, but I have a glass Pyrex cup that I use for hot liquids. So their two top picks are my most used!

@Larry Bundy Jr "But, hello you..."

I have six or seven Pyrex measuring cups in all different sizes. Some of the sizes I have two of. (I cook and bake a lot and don’t wNt to stop to wash one)

Special memories! I'm with you on that. And, for sure, Pyrex has been around for so long because they know what they're doing: making measuring cups that are easy to use, easy to clean, and ACCURATE. 👍

I've also have had the 1 and 4 cup Pyrex for about 35 years. Both still look good as new.

@@ilovegoodsax I got mine as a set from K-Mart. For you younger folks out there, K-Mart is the Mrs. Havisham of big box stores. For you even younger kids, Mrs. Havisham is a Dickens character from ... oh, never mind.

@@Leguminator I'm pretty sure I got my Pyrex from K-Mart too, circa 1985. Target and Walmart didn't hit my city until later in the 80s.

I have my mom’s 2 cup Pyrex from the 60’s. I don’t think it can go in the microwave. But I have several newer ones. The 1 cup is so cute.

It's my favorite bridal shower gift. I add the nesting glass bakewear or mixing bowl set with lids. Great kitchen basics.

I use them both. The OXO is great for thin liquids that have the kind of surface tension that makes it harder to eyeball the side markings. The Pyrex is better for more viscous liquids that you need to scrape out.

That's probably borosilicate. This seems to be soda lime, so not the same product.

@@BooBaddyBig in addition to the measuring cups, I have several pieces of Pyrex bakeware. All my Pyrex pieces were purchase in the 1980s/90s -- quality stuff. I don't think I'd buy Pyrex today.

@@ilovegoodsax i've fancied getting a 4 cup pyrex. just didn't know if I would use it enough to give it the space in my kitchen. do you use yours a lot?

@@cindyb8775 I don't use it nearly as much as the 1-cup but it has come in handy over the decades.💯😁

Yes 100% my go to!!!

@@fluffylee Yeah!-- it's so weird that it's sitting there right in front of them, and they never talk about about them:-).

I can see why they wouldn't be one of their top picks (which is all they talk about usually. Their articles have more info). 1: It's very hard to scrape viscous liquids out of all but the largest ones, creating a drawback vs regular liquid measuring cups. 2: The top of the beaker is higher than the measurements so you can't level off the substance like you would with flour or baking powder, cold butter scooped/smashed into a measuring cup/spoon, peanut butter will stick to the high unmeasured part of the beaker rather than be in the measured part like it would be in a measuring cup/spoon. This creates a drawback vs regular measuring cups and spoons. These drawbacks make it so now I own liquid measuring cups, dry measuring cups, measuring spoons, and these measuring beakers rather than just the first 3. When I first bought them, I was thinking it would replace measuring spoons and liquid cups but that's not the case so I regret buying them.

@@themikeroberts Yes, I would never use these for anything but liquids, and for small amounts, at that. If you have the room and budget for additional measuring tools, I find them invaluable, I use them all the time. But if you need to stick to liquid jug, measuring cup and measuring spoons, then they you can sure get away without having them.

I’ve heard about that, but the glass cleans up very easily, so I just hand wash mine. I would think that people would be willing to pay a bit more for another version with some kind of glaze on top to protect the markings though.

@@tempesttube I would gladly pay two or three times as much to get ones that would last a lifetime going through the dishwasher.

lowercase pyrex logo pieces aren't microwave safe either

I have never had this issue. I an Anchor measuring cup that did that but never a Pyrex.

I had that same problem with my pyrex cups, the red writing rubs off after a while. Its frustrating because I don't have a secondary use for it.

What do you use for flour one cup equivalent weight? I have seen conflicting advice on this.

@@williammeek4078 one cup is a volume measurement. Not a weight measurement. What a cup is for one brand is different for another.

@@HH-le1vi You clearly don’t do a lot of baking.

@@williammeek4078 you clearly don't understand that I'm right. No good professional Baker uses imperial measurements for dry ingredients.

@@HH-le1vi That is absolutely irrelevant to my question and reveals you don’t understand what I am asking so please stop trying

It's one of those things that you have to figure out once but then you just know it.

As an engineer, my response to their criticism was "Really?" Pretty much every measuring instrument that I have ever used just calls out the larger measurements with larger hashes at the middle points and smaller hashes to indicate further halves, thirds, or fifths (which you can figure out by counting the hashes). Think ruler, scale, thermometer, etc. None of them indicate the value of every mark.

You should always use the proper measurement jar. Measuring 20 ml using a 250 ml jar is as good idea as using a rule to measure 10 yards.

A B S O L U T E L Y !! That makes too much sense. But common sense us the least common of all senses.

"very viscous liquids (like water)" I suggest looking up the definition of "viscous." Water is NOT viscous, but honey IS. In fact, the opposite of "viscous" is "watery."

@@seikibrian8641 It's been a day, and it's been REALLY HUMID in AZ. I blame my environment.

Same issue - but not the really old one from my mom’s estate.

Totally came here to say that. I love the Pyrex ones, but agree that the markings fade and they get scratched on the inside, most likely from when I'd quickly whisk an egg with a fork or some such. Sure, they last forever, but they become unsightly, even useless.

Unfortunately, the markings on my Oxo cups came off after about a year or so of regular use. I had 3 of them 1, 2 and 4 cup and they all lost their markings. I went back to glass.

Yup. I have a 1 cup from around 2000 and the lettering is still going strong, but the 2 cup that I bought around 2015 lost almost all the lettering in 2 years.

My mom's have been in the dishwasher hundreds of thousands of times with no problem but there's lots of Amazon reviews saying the lettering came off and the pouring spouts leak all over. I wonder if that's because of counterfeits on Amazon (a huge problem with other products at least) or if genuine ones are poor quality now.