What happened to 3/4 cup?

These will take a lot of room to store.

dcarch

I don't think many sets have that any more, nor the 2/3 cup. The last really nice set I bought had just those 4.

Clever, but maybe awkward to use.

Ditto, but great for teaching.

and cool looking...

I like them, but would prefer stainless steel.

Nay. Mainly for the reason dcarch said, they don’t nest. also look awkward to use but I’d reserve judgment until someone actually tries it. Grainy picture but the handles look concave which means they’d collect extra of whatever it is you’re measuring.

Maybe they think that people hang their cups, not nest them. I have an old plastic set with 3/4 C, 2/3 C, and 1/8 C. My favorite metal cup is a 2 C measure. However, these days I mostly measure with my kitchen scale.

Thanks Carol I stand corrected on both comments. The handles appeared cupped upward not downward to me which made the whole thing look awkward but obviously I was wrong. Wonder if dcarch saw similar at first?

I'd guess the rounded handles help to keep them stacked.

Carol, Thanks for the picture. I was envisioning that. The shapes didn't look like perfect sections, but just off enough to stack, and your picture shows that to be true. Recognizable, but shorter and wider for stacking.

It comes to mind that it would be easy to tell one from the next, by sight or feel. The one cup and 1/8 cup of the stainless set I've had since childhood are obvious, but I'm always reading the handles to the 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2. ;)

Good find on that photo, Carol. I also thought they'd likely stack.

I like the visual. I also assumed they nested. Not sure I trust the material. Short handles. I have two sets of stainless. One set is wide and shallow. Both are hard to read the stamped quantity. Same with the tBsp sets. Both different shapes. The brand logo is clear, but the quantity, most important, is so small I have to hold it up to good light and shift back and forth. Industrial and product design is increasingly frustrating.

DH fails at nesting. Good idea though, but one handle sticking up wrong would be trashed/cracked in no time. Shutting or opening the drawer where they would live. With all the other un-nested measuring devices. lol

sleevendog - perhaps you can take some nail polish and mark your stainless with a code - 1 dot for 1/4, 2 dots for 1/2 3 dots for 1/3, etc. Or, different colors painted over the stamped labels? I had a set of spoons that I got so frustrated trying to read that I took my Dremel and made the code marks a lot bigger and deeper.

“Not sure I trust the material.”

That was my next thought but I decided not to say it because I‘ve already been negative enough. More often than not clear plastic in the kitchen seems to end up either cloudy or crackled. But I won’t say anything since I‘ve no evidence as to how these hold up. 😜

A good design idea does get the brain juices flowing, 😂. A quick visual in the drawer I welcome. Cup/half cup/quarter cup is good for me. I never exact cook ever. Baking I use the scale. I would buy that in a sturdier material.

A so called lifetime stainless set lost the handles at the crappy rivets. One-by-one. Thanks life-time warranty no longer in business, 😂

Yeah - I'm not crazy about clear plastic/acrylic/whatever, and assume it'll get crappy in no time - esp. if I drop it on my terrazzo floor.

FWIW, I have a very sturdy stainless steel nesting set I found at the local dollar store years ago, and they've held up great.

They're slightly odd, though, with pouring spouts on the opposite side of the way I normally hold a cup, and embossed line markings slightly below the rim that I think might be for liquids. Otherwise very useful and durable.

Nay. They seem like they would irritate me.

Sleeve, I hate those little spot welds on so many metal things now. A stainless steel colander that I loved, had the handle come off, because of the minute little weld holding it. My handles are the same on my measuring cups. I lost the handle off of my 1/4 cup but I have a couple of other sets, so I'm okay.

Rather cool, but as has been noted would be better in metal. I would like a 1/3 cup In there, but that would likely make this unstackable.

Artemis the 3rd one is 1/3 cup.

I was thinking of this thread, specifically dcarch’s “what happened to 3/4 cup” yesterday. I was at a Williams Sonoma outlet and saw a single set of stainless measuring cups. Went to look and there were 3 or 4, all wacky amounts like 2/3, 3/4, 1.5. Got me wondering if someone pulled a fast one by buying a larger set and returning the odd ones.

ETA - Nope no funny business. They‘re sold as an odd size set:

Thank-you Mrs. Brown! Odd sizes are cute, and I daresay convenient, but I know my fractions. ;)