Measuring cup and spoon brings you all sizes with just a slider

For those who love to cook (or even those who don’t love it but need to do it), measuring cups and spoons are an essential part of their tools. Unless they can actually estimate the correct quantity of ingredients, these are needed for those that follow exact recipes or at least estimate the correct mix of ingredients and flavors. Kitchens are often cluttered with all kinds of measuring tools along with the usual array of pots, pans, and other cooking devices and accessories.

Designer: Lékué

Kitchenware manufacturer Lékué has come up with something that can sort of declutter your kitchen. It’s a singular spoon that uses a slider to give you the different measures that you need when using your ingredients. All you have to do is slide it to the desired measurement, whether it’s a teaspoon or a tablespoon, or a specific measurement like 5ml, 10ml, or 20ml. It can be used for things like sugar, flour, grains, and even liquids like oil, vinegar, soy sauce, etc.

There is also a measuring cup that serves as the spoon’s storage. Using it is simpler. For half-cup measurements, fill it up until the colored portion.. And if you need a full cup, fill it up to the top. If you need to be specific, half a cup is 125 ml while a full cup is 250 ml. If you need something less than half a cup, then you’ll have to estimate what is one-fourth of the cup storage which should be pretty easy unless you need to be super exact with your measurements.

If you want to keep your kitchen accessories neat and tidy, this Measuring Spoons and Cups “invention” should be the perfect one for you. Not only will you get more space in your kitchen space, you also will have less things to wash and dry whenever you’re keeping. It comes in different colors as well like red, blue, and green so you can choose which one to match your kitchen aesthetics. The set sells for $13 and you have to buy them together and not just one or the other.

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These measuring cups are designed to visually represent fractions for intuitive use!

The joy of my job comes in discovering products that make me go “Damn, I wish I thought of that”. These moments admittedly don’t come often, but that just makes their arrival more worthwhile. The Visual Measuring Cups are one of those products. They’re sensible, they’re useful, and they have absolutely no learning curve. They’re good design in practically every way, because they enrich lives with their simplicity and ingeniousness.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t own a measuring cup, so I play out my ingredients by eye. I have a cup at home I use for all my measuring activities, and my intuition tells me when the flour or sugar or milk is occupying 1/4th of the cup, or half the cup. The problem here, other than me relying on my sense of spatial awareness, is that not everyone has the same cup, or teaspoon or tablespoon. While recipes try to make things easier by using measuring units like cups, because not everyone can measure in grams, ounces, or milliliters, that simplification has its own demerits. Cups and spoons vary across households, not to mention, not everyone can tell the difference between a 1/3rd cup and a 1/4th cup. The genius of the Visual Measuring Cups is that not only do the provide a fixed, standard measurement, they’re visually indicative too. Designed to look like the fractions they represent, the cups make it easier to understand measurements. The quarter cup is quadrant-shaped, the half cup is semi-circular. This sheer sensibility makes it quicker to measure out multiple ingredients without worrying about whether your measurements are accurate, because you know for sure they are!

The Visual Measuring Cups turn textual references into visual references, helping us understand the measurements better. While most measuring beakers and cups use indicative lines to ‘tell’ you how much half a cup is, the Visual Measuring Cup ‘shows’ you how much half a cup us, giving you a quicker, better understanding of fractional metrics. Available in four sizes spanning a full cup, half cup, one-third cup, and quarter cup, the Visual Measuring Cups are easy to use and need literally no explanation. Their visual nature allows them to be used universally, without numbers or languages being a barrier… and just when things couldn’t get any better, they nest right into one another to make them easy to store!

Designer: Pam Daniels of Welcome Industries

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The Visual Measuring Cups

What if you could tell a measurement at a glance, without having to read a label? What if you could know by feel which was which? Meet Visual Measuring Cups, the first measuring cups where the shape itself indicates the unit of measure, making it easier for everyone to take part in cooking.

What You See Is What You Get

The Visual Measuring Cups show you what’s what. A full cup looks like a whole circle. A half cup looks like a half. A third looks like 1/3, and a quarter looks like 1/4.

Each set contains four standard U.S. measures: 1/4c, 1/3c, 1/2c, and 1 cup. The set of four cups nests neatly and fits inside a standard drawer.

Inspiration & Design Features

The inspiration for the Visual Measuring Cups began with a pie chart, and after four years and lots of 3D-printed prototypes exploring possibilities, every detail was considered in the patented design:

– Nests neatly and fits in a standard drawer
– High quality clear resin will not crack or craze
– Dishwasher safe and BPA-free
– Four-part set includes 1c, 1/2c, 1/3c and 1/4c

About The Designers

The Visual Measuring Cups were designed by Pam Daniels, one of the founders of Welcome Industries and a faculty member at Northwestern University’s Segal Design Institute.

Welcome Industries is partnering with Chicago-based Janler Corp, a woman-owned business, to do the tooling and manufacturing of the Visual Measuring Cups. Working locally makes collaboration easier and means faster delivery times and less uncertainty for retailers.

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This bottle is your ultimate all-in-one kitchen tool!

While it occupies the exact footprint of a wine bottle on your kitchen shelf, the Bin 8 is actually pretty much all the kitchen accessories you need, combined into one ‘Swiss Army Bottle’ of sorts. A prime example of utilitarian, artistic, and thoughtful Japanese design, the Bin 8 is a combination of eight kitchen tools stacked one upon the other, made to look like a wine bottle. The bottle’s spout acts as a funnel, and its base, a measuring cup. Sitting in between these two are a citrus juicer, a spice grater, cheese grater, yolk separater, egg masher, and a jar-opening silicone ring.

Stacked together, the Bin 8 occupies much less space than each of those items would individually, and does so with a certain flair that you’d probably use the words “innovative” and “brilliant” to describe. I know I would!

Designer: Bento & Co.

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The Family that Cooks Together, Stays Together

Everyone remembers the first time Mom & Dad let them give a hand in the kitchen! The Make: Family Cooking concept aims brings the whole family together to participate in cooking with an easy-to-use E-ink system. The cutting board serves as both a place to dice food and as a display for step-by-step instructions and recipes. Simply follow the directions while using the modular handles to control the whisk, board, and measuring cup. Fun and safe for kids – worry-free for parents!

Designer: Joshua Harris

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