Pyrex Prepware 2-Quart Measuring Cup, Clear with Red Measurements

by Pyrex

Product Features

• Ergonomically designed handles
• Pyrex glass is non-porous, so it won't absorb food odors, food flavors or food stains
• Made in the U.S.A.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 8.2 x 5.6 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002KZMCY
• Item model number: 6001072
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,333 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Pyrex Prepware 2-quart mix n measure set includes 1-each 2-quart mix n measure with red graphics. Whether you are preparing a multi-course meal or simply a snack for one, Pyrex offers products which make food preparation a little easier, from beginning to end. There's no substitute for Pyrex, the original glass bakeware. Introduced 90 years ago and made of a durable, high temperature material, Pyrex remains the ideal medium for safe, dependable food preparation.

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107 of 122 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pyrex is NOT Pyrex now, August 5, 2007

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Christopher D'Amico "MockSwede" (Brewer, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pyrex Prepware 2-Quart Measuring Cup, Clear with Red Measurements (Kitchen)

Posted elsewhere and added here for others:

New measuring cups are heavier because it's NOT PYREX anymore! After 1998, when Corning Glass stopped making Pyrex. (Think fiberoptics and bankruptcy, etc.) They sold off their 'household' glassmaking and it reformed as World Kitchen. PYREX is borosilicate glass and very resistant to wear and chip and cracking due to exposure to heat or quick changes in temperature. This is why Pyrex and Kimax other borosilicate glasses are used for chemistry glassware. (Timex was to watches as these were to chemlabware! Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!) Corning has licensed the name of 'Pyrex' to World Kitchen, but nothing else about it is 'corning glass'. (As an aside - Corning made great glass - of all kinds. A world-beater in their day. Management screwed them over going down the wrong economic road. Do check out their lovely glass museum in Corning, NY!) NOW, World Kitchen makes their 'pyrex' measuring cups out of ordinary soda-lime glass (kitchen drinking glass type). This is NOT safe to expose to heat changes!!!! (Think wear safety goggles - like you WERE working in a CHEM LAB!) I suspect that soda-lime glass is denser than borosilicate, but the actual measure wall thickness may be different now than before, and, thus, this accounts for some of the weight difference. If you want my opinion - find 'vintage' Pyrex Measuring Cups somehow and they will last multiple lifetimes. I have one of my mom's and she has two of her mom's measures. My new ones cannot hold a candle to the old ones (30 to 60 years old) and aren't worth a tinker's damn. Happy times in the kitchen!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You may not know what you are missing!, August 29, 2005

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B. Marold "Bruce W. Marold" (Bethlehem, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pyrex Prepware 2-Quart Measuring Cup, Clear with Red Measurements (Kitchen)

I bought one of these simply because I had to have every piece of kitchen ware I laid my eyes on (at one point) and, while most of my gadgets gathered dust, this little (actually not so little, and that is the point) beauty got used over and over again.

There may not be many times when you need to measure a full two quarts, but when you are measuring 2 cups or 4 cups, then mixing this with some other ingredient(s), the ability to measure and mix in the same container is a great time and dishware saver.

I learned the value of this measuring cup when mine broke and I found myself without one through the height of my baking season.

This is a bit heavier than a corresponding cup in plastic, but you simply cannot clean plastic to the same level of sanitary confidence as you can glass. Therefore, I ordered two to replace my lost heirloom. They are cheap!

33 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE: new Pyrex EXPLODES., August 27, 2008

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Harry Perlmutter "finister" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pyrex Prepware 2-Quart Measuring Cup, Clear with Red Measurements (Kitchen)

Pyrex is NO LONGER BOROSILICATE. The new stuff will crack and break, as multiple reviewers have noted; nor are the Catamount borosilicate products a good substitute, since they shatter easily due to their thinness.

Luminarc still makes their stuff out of thick borosilicate. It's the only viable replacement for traditional Pyrex to date.

If you're interested, look up the Pyrex scandal. The nutshell version is that in 1998 Corning spun off the Pyrex brand to World Kitchen and other companies, who now use soda-lime glass. Injuries and lawsuits have cropped up everywhere.