Pyrex Glass 2 Quart Clear Measuring Cup with Red Lettering  Product Reviews

"I use this measuring cup mainly as a mixing bowl. Hold the handle with one hand while you mix and pour the batter out from the spout. It works great."

"When it comes to cooking this great. It is good for dry or wet, hot or cold. Very versatile and useful. Very well made and durable. Highly reccomended"

"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!"

"This Pyrex cup is great for so many things. I use it to mix up quick breads and brownies, for pancake batter, for handling homemade soups (straining stock, etc.), even as a salad bowl. It's so handy to be able to just grab the handle instead of using two hands, especially when dealing with hot liquids. And I feel that it gets so much cleaner in the dishwasher than plastic would. The glass will chip if you're not careful, but Pyrex is usually pretty tough. "