KitchenArt Professional 2 Cup Modify-A-Cup, Satin

As a foreigner this helps reduce my anger towards US recipes.
Like majority of the world, we usually measure things in grams, or milliliters. When you get a recipe from an American website, you are expected to have 3/4 cups of this, 2 tablespoons of that, 6 oz of this other thing … and so you end up making a mess with a ton of different items. This did solve my pain.PROS:* All in one! I can use ONE item to make an entire recipe!* Very easy to clean! I even used oil and had no issues wiping it clean with some soap. Very simple to clean both parts.* Lightweight / Space saver – I honestly threw away all my other measuring cups/devices, they just added clutter to my cabinets. This one did replace all of them.CONS:* I have a fear that the markings will eventually vanish since it’s done with some sort of ink. So I would not run this through a dishwasher (anymore)CONCLUSION: Every kitchen does need something like this, one item, all your measurements, 1 thing to clean by the end of the recipe! Perfect for me.

Decent could use some fixes; PERFECT for waffles!
update: i finally found the ‘trump card’ for this exact tool. I have NEVER been able to get just the right amount of waffle mix into a waffle iron. My new waffle iron calls for 1 ‘1/3 cups of mix so i decided to try this tool out for the job. It worked without flaw, i can’t imagine a better way to pull off that chore; my older ‘wonder cup’ style was so hard to push compared to this it would be a struggle to actually empty. The batter was just the right texture that it didn’t stick to the top of the plunger i didn’t even have to scrape it off just push the plunger and go.add’l update; my first copy had a bad seal so amazon swapped it no-charge-for-shipping etc. sadly that won’t get the feedback to the source very well but at least the second one will ‘hold water’ which the first didn’t. It doesn’t hold water great though.. a tiny bit will leak through the seal but i didn’t buy it for water, apparently i bought it for making waffles! If i don’t use it for anything else it will be worth it for me. (i love waffles)=====1) mine came with some labeling smeared as others have commented on; this is definitely a quality control issue; the label ink seems pretty solid, it’s as if it was boxed up before the ink was dry.2) there is a flaw in the desgn that allows the wobble. there should be a set of ‘ribs’ on the plunger to keep it centered in the outer tube. a very simple fix: wrap an o-ring around the inner plunger so that there is a second place to hold the plunger centered. make sure it’s not too tight. even better; put an array of tiny rubber stick-on feet around the inner-tube (i did 3-around about every inch) it makes the center piston stay perfecly centered with the added bonus that it also holds any position very well. basically it’s a design correction to fix the biggest flaw. if i can figure out how to add a picture later i will. again, quality control issue. the design of the seal is fine, but mine has a flat spot from a mold release or somethihng where water will just dribble right on through.3) mine came with a faulty seal; it literally ‘won’t hold water’. since i have much better tools for measuring water-like liquids i think i’ll be ok with that since the primary use i have for this tool is measuring brown sugar, i’m not sure if i’ll be sending it back.4) dishwasher safe may not mean dishwasher friendly. i’m not sure there is any gain in running the plunger through the machine, but the exterier tube is a solid tube of polycarbonate or similar very strong plastic. as long as it doesn’t rub violently around in the mashing to rub off the lettering it should be fine for a long time. I don’t expect i’ll be needing to run mine through the dw.5) precision. i did a simple test of measuring 1c of water and it was within 1 tsp accurate. that amount of error is definitely withing the error bars of me eyballing the meniscus of the water. i’m satisfied with that result.6) pouring ability. agreed it should have a spout! what up with that? you can pour fine if the receptical it’s going into is big enough to commit to 100% pour but often you’d want to slowly pour it in; forget about that plan.7) star rating. i’d give it 3.5 because of the quality control issues that are apparent but i’m rounding up because the overall design is superior to the lower quality soft-plastic models like schmamered schmef design. I’ve used that one for years, it ‘gets the job done’ but this one is an infinite improvement in ‘touch and feel’. the other design has a closed plunger for measuring liquids not relying on the seal but it’s nearly impossible to read through the thick opaqe plastic.8) read the directions: people are pulling the seal off by pulling straight not twisting as it says in very clear lettering on the top of the disc. the static coefficient of friction of a rubber ring on polycarbonate under pressure is ‘off scale’ it *should* rip off the disc. it would be better if they made this more clear but they are serious do not pull w/o twisting.8a) you could surely re-glue should you pull it off; that part is well out of the way of touching your food so it won’t be needed to use a ‘food safe adhesive’.9) storage suggestion; you can avoid that problem by following one of these ideas: a) NEVER store completely closed; just like a syringe will pull the rubber boot right off if stored fully depressed, you can expect problems if the first motion is to PULL out the pluger. If you leave even a cm of space or make sure to PUSH the plunger out you will never put the ‘tension’ type of force on the part so you can’t break it that way. b) as mentioned in ‘a’; PUSH the plunger the first time you use it after storage even just for minutes; the seal will ‘stick’ to the outside wall. if stored ‘open a little’ you can push it closed first then pull & twist open or if stored fully closed, push on the black seal to get things moving. and c) to help keep the seal from wearing out prematurely *and* help avoid self-destruction, put the plunger in backwards or store separately (even better). They made a slight bevel on the BOTTOM of the tube and when the plunger is put in backwards, there is about 10% of the force on the seal. it greatly reduces the problems assosated with the seal being tight.I’m going to contact the company about the manufacturing defects on my copy and i will post a follow-up to see what they suggest in regard to my faulty model and i’ll adjust my star score accordingly.-awr

Water get inside closed container.
When I wash it in the dishwasher water gets inside the closed container. I can’t see an opening and can’t see any drain out afterwords but water gets in.

Push-up Gadget
This tool makes baking so much easier every Christmas. It’s easy to clean, and the quality of it is good. Our old one broke so ordered a new one. All is great, but please don’t put the sticky adhesive gunk on the part that is used to push the food item thru. It takes so much effort to get it off before being able to use it.

La calidad del producto es buena, es funcional y cumple con lo que dice, peeero al momento de ajustarla me gustaria que tuviera mas soporte o firmeza porque facilmente se mueve de la medida, se desliza un poco facil.Fuera de eso me gustó

Really good much better than using different jugs will measure dry and liquids accurate in cups ml pints very useful

This plunger-style measuring cup is perfectly suited for sticky, viscous, or goopy ingredients. It works stunningly well with butter, nut butters, and molasses, to name just a few. As a frequent baker, I’ve found continual use for it, and it keeps my more classic measuring cups from becoming filthy and needing cleaning during a recipe.All that said, this tool is operated by twisting and pulling the plunger out of the sheath. This works decently – but not exceptionally – well, as it isn’t manufactured tightly enough to prevent you from tilting the sheath and messing up your measurement while working with particularly thick ingredients like peanut butter. You can overcome this minor design fault with careful attention, but it is a fault nonetheless.Overall, an excellent tool for any baker.