Norpro 3080 Mini Measuring Spoons, 5 Piece Set

by Norpro

Product Features

• Material: stainless steel
• Measures 5-inch by 13cm
• Dishwasher safe

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 0.5 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009X1P9S
• Item model number: 3080
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #704 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #2 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Measuring Tools & Scales > Spoons
  • #6 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Measuring Tools & Scales > Cups

Product Description

Fun yet useful, 5 stainless steel measuring spoons. Set includes; tad, dash, pinch, smidgen and a drop. Measures 5-inch /13cm. Dishwasher safe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

98 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Now You Know!, May 31, 2011

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laffin_boy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norpro 3080 Mini Measuring Spoons, 5 Piece Set (Kitchen)

This is bizarre.

We have a product widely sold online who's purpose is to measure small amounts of a substance with, one assumes, some reasonable degree of accuracy. But the manufacturer, rather than mark the spoons with a useful unit of measure chose to stamp cutesy names on them that suggest a rough approximation rather than an actual measure. As if they didn't even know themselves what the true sizes were. And the retailers offering these spoons are uniformly mute as far as describing them any more precisely.

But, nevertheless, customers love them. Many reviewers here stress how handy they for *accurately* measuring out small quantities - in spite of the fact that they DON"T ACTUALLY KNOW what fraction of a teaspoon they're dolling out. Why do I say this? Because every previous attempt i've found to translate the cutesy names into standard units of measure - here and at other O/L retailers - is wrong. All of them. I know this because I did something that *apparently* no one has ever done before. I actually *measured* the volume of these measuring spoons.

I used a syringe graduated in hundredths of a CC and filled each spoon till it was full. I did this 3 times & averaged the results. Then I converted CC's into fractions of a teaspoon. With one exception - the spoons *do* follow some sort of logical size progression as they get smaller and they all appear to be within approximately 5% of their expected nominal size. Here's the conversion:

TAD = 1/4 tsp
DASH = 1/12 tsp <<<< not 1/8 >>>
PINCH = 1/16 tsp
SMIDGEN = 1/32 tsp
DROP = 1/64 tsp

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars actual measurements a little odd, April 18, 2011

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pacificNWlady - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Norpro 3080 Mini Measuring Spoons, 5 Piece Set (Kitchen)

I bought these mini measure spoons to measure medicine for my small puppy and because there were 5 in the set as opposed to the others for sale that have three or four per set. The actual measurements come out a bit strange...., when carefully checked against my standard teaspoon measure are as follows. 1/5 tsp, 1/11 tsp, 1/16 tsp, 1/32 tsp, 1/64 tsp.
I will use them and I scratched the actual measurements into the handle so I would remember.
I hope this helps others who are considering the purchase.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tad, dash, pinch, smidgen, drop measurements, January 27, 2010

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Peggy "pab920" (Norfolk, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norpro 3080 Mini Measuring Spoons, 5 Piece Set (Kitchen)

I ordered these in order to measure small amounts of the vitamin c crystals and potassium granules for my cats. I finally found the veterinarian recommended 250mg cranberry extract soft gels, but commonly the lowest dose is 300mg. One cat had painful cystitis and I decided to treat the other one as a preventative measure since this affliction is common in male cats. I received these today and they seem sturdy enough, worth the price, and are stamped in large print. Since it's not imprinted on the spoons what each one translates to in either grams or teaspoons, I looked it up. I have not actually measured these spoons to see if this link is accurate (a tad looks large more like a 1/2 tsp. to me) but here goes:
"* Tad -- 1/8th teaspoon
* Dash -- 1/16th teaspoon (or less than 1/8th teaspoon)
* Pinch -- 1/16th teaspoon (or 1/24th teaspoon)
* Smidgen (smidge, for short) -- 1/32nd teaspoon (or 1/48th teaspoon)
* Drop -- 1/60th teaspoon (or 1/80th teaspoon or 1/120th teaspoon)
* Hint -- a trace
(At the very least, there is general agreement that these are in descending order according to size (although if you believe that a drop is 1/120th of a teaspoon, it is quite possible that your hint is bigger)." If you want to read the entire link:[...]. It's an interesting trivia quick read.