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Cuisipro 5-Piece Odd Size Measuring Spoon Set | 
 enlarge | Brand: Cuisipro
List Price: $12.00
Buy New: $11.95
You Save: $0.05
Rating:  10 reviews
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 1.7 x 1.1
MPN: 747004
Model: 747004
UPC: 065506070049
EAN: 0065506070049
ASIN: B000HS7QJS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Five measuring spoons for pinch, 1/8, 2/3, 1-1/2, and 2 teaspoons | | • | Made of heavyweight 18/10 stainless steel | | • | Oval shapes fit into spice jars | | • | Handle-ends curl to prop spoons flat without spilling contents | | • | Handles fasten together by removable clip |
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Product Description
Oval shape designed to fit into narrow bottles. Spoons sit on the counter without tipping over. The unique sizes include: pinch, 1/8, 2/3, 1 1/2, 2 tsps. sizes.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Odd Size Measuring Spoons August 3, 2008
Patti S. (Great Falls, MT)
Very good quality. More usefull sizes than other odd-size measuring spoons. Enables me to get more consistent results with old and downsized recipes.
 Supplements standard set but definitely not perfectly or economically December 8, 2007
Piasta Wnuczka
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought both the standard Cuisipro measuring spoon set (1/8 tsp, 1/4 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1 tsp & 1 Tblsp) and this one ("pinch", 1/8 tsp, 2/3 tsp, 1-1/2 tsp and 2 tsp) thinking they would fully complement one another. They don't. I am now the proud owner of two of the 1/8 tsp spoons. That's not the size I would have chosen to have two of. Meanwhile, while this set includes a 2/3 tsp, there is no 1/3 tsp in either set. A 1/3 tsp is immeasurably more useful than a 2/3 tsp, if you have to choose, since you can always dip the 1/3 tsp twice if you need 2/3 tsp of an ingredient, but it's very difficult to eyeball half the 2/3 tsp if you only need 1/3 tsp.
The spoons themselves are nicely made, but I would not have bought this set at all had the regular set included a 1/2 Tblsp, which is really the only "odd size" spoon I wanted, and which if you do a lot of baking you know is not that odd at all. It's in here under the name "1-1/2 tsp", since a Tablespoon is equivalent to three teaspoons. But not everyone knows that -- certainly a lot of novice cooks do not -- so it would have been nice to have the spoon marked accordingly.
I can take a "pinch" with my fingers and don't really need a spoon to do that, nor do I need a "2 tsp" spoon when I can just dip the 1 tsp twice if I need that much.
I haven't decided whether to send them all back. It's annoying to pay an additional $11.95 over the initial $12.95 just to get one spoon I need, and a bunch more I don't, including the duplicate. Considering that out of the two sets, there are only six spoons I really need, that are truly useful and not redundant, they are costing me more than $4 per spoon. I think that's a bit high regardless of how well made they are.
ADDENDUM:
I found the Culinary Institute of America's spoons (search for "CIA 6 Piece Measuring Spoon Set") and decided to return the two Cuisipro sets and get that instead, at $19.95 for the exact six sizes I want. And it's what the pros use.
 Non Standard Sizes October 18, 2007
Earl S. Cory (Oakland, CA)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
There are five measuring spoons, but in very strange sizes. This is a European company and they have converted the metric measures to English equivalent. If you are using the metric system, great, but if you are using an English system cooking book, for example, anything in the US, then these will be useless. There isn't even a tablespoon measurement.
Better than I expected May 11, 2007
Domenico Bettinelli (Peabody, MA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I thought this set was going to be useful, it's even more useful than I thought. Half of a Tablespoon is 1-1/2 teaspoons. It used to drive me made when a recipe asked for 1-1/2 Tbsp because I'd have to drag out three spoons to measure. The pinch and dash are not as useful, I think, although they are apparently technically 1/16th tsp and 1/8th tsp. At those amounts, I can just use my fingers.
The shape of the spoons is useful too because the narrowness lets me put them into those annoyingly narrow spice jars.
Now I wish I could get the regular Cuisipro measuring spoons, except they apparently only come with measuring cups, which I don't need.
Odd size measuring spoons May 10, 2007
Peter S. Feliz
Came very quickly, but I think the shipping charge (which cost as much as the spoons) was excessive, AND I was not allowed to see the shipping charge until after I made the purchase.
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