We have had a somewhat similar measuring device for years but it was not dishwasher safe. Finally saw this one and took a chance. So far we really like it. It is easy to read, easy to use and very convenient. If you use anything like peanut butter or Crisco in your cooking you should really consider one of these. Now that we have one that is dishwasher safe we need to retrain ourselves to use it for many more things. The key will be to do all the dry ingredients first and then the liquids. Then all we need is this.