It's clean and looks new. I wanted a bigger cup and here we go! Granted the price isn't some great 1$ find like we used to have...
4 cup Pyrex measuring cup
It's clean and looks new. I wanted a bigger cup and here we go! Granted the price isn't some great 1$ find like we used to have...
20 Comments
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 43d
where do you live? that would be like ~$1.00 at the thrift store in my town
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 43d
Most thrift stores are now owned by either Goodwill or Value Villlage.
Since they basically function as monopolistic syndicates, they've been jacking up prices all over the country.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 43d
Yeah I'm kinda pissed. I go to the Goodwill/Renaissances, the Salvation Army, and the Value Villages in Montreal. I have this little circuit I use based on public transit.
I've been to a few other brands of thrift stores but the prices all seem inflated. I don't do garage sales or flea markets. Maybe I should? I'm really looking for unusual electronics finds.
Where do you live and where do you see 1$ for this?
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 43d
deep south rural mountain town. the people who go to thrift stores will do without rather than spend $6 on a measuring cup
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 43d
Yeah it's more a hobby for me. Thrifting is for the well-to-do now.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 42d
Note that goodwill in Canada is not the same organization as goodwill in the USA.
The American one is all corporate and for-profit like Value Village.
Canadian Goodwill is still a charity, and is still focused on providing a service to the community.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 43d
Still 50% of what a brand new one costs. 🤷♂️
Davel23@fedia.io · 7 pts · 43d
Real pyrex or soda-lime?
scutiger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d
Fire-King hasn't made borosilicate glassware in like 50 years, so I'd assume this is just soda lime glass.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 43d
I don't know how to answer that. It doesn't say Pyrex but I assumed the type of glass is the same formulation and just not using the brand name?
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 43d
All caps PYREX good borosilicate. Lowercase Pyrex crappy soda-lime.
Davel23@fedia.io · 8 pts · 43d
Turns out it's not as simple as that, and there is no real certain way to tell. This video goes into some good detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DKasz4xFC0
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 43d
Borosilicate and soda lime glass have a notably different index of refraction.
Submerged in mineral or vegetable oil, soda lime glass will be clearly visible, while borosilicate will disappear.
Davel23@fedia.io · 1 pts · 43d
The video goes over that too. He tries both types of glass in mineral oil and there is little to no visual difference. Not saying that's always the case, but again it's not so simple.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 43d
If it's all caps PYREX, its a really nice score.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 43d
Pyrex or PYREX? All caps is the good one.
Triumph@fedia.io · 2 pts · 43d
I have so many Pyrex measuring cups. No reason, I just like them. Drives my wife crazy.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 42d
I have the same one!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 43d
4 cups for the price of... yeah, 4 cups.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
Ahh I have like two of these. Although bought new from the grocery! They're nice, I like em.