This is not a complaint about the retail workers at IKEA. Customer service there has been very good in my experience.
This is about the freaking moron that labled the Svepa glassware. We bought a dozen glasses in the 7 oz. and 8 oz. style. Now when one buys an 8 oz. glass one quite reasonably expects that it will hold eight fluid ounces, usually when filled to a reasonably level for serving. Not, apparently, if you purchase said glass from IKEA. In this case it holds about 7 ounce when filled to the brim so full it can’t be picked up without spilling. It does hold about a half pound of water or 8 ounces weight of water when filled to the brim.
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT? How useful is it to have a glass that will hold its capacity when filled so full it can’t be used? What moron lists a drinking glass’s capacity in weight? Glasses hold fluid and their capacity should be measured in fluid ounces, dammit. Why bother listing a capacity that is not accurate? What was that idiot thinking and how did that mistake make it to the whole line of glassware; the 15 oz. and 7 oz. are similarly mislabled. Are all their glassware lines mislabled? How can this make it all the way to the retail shelf without anyone noticing how insanely stupid it is?
I was looking for 8 oz. glasses because I need to drink three 8 oz. glasses of milk each day. Next time I should go armed with a liquid measure and water.
Maybe what with IKEA being european, they were using British ounces? You should have used the metric capacity instead, for less confusion. And why wouldn’t the capacity be measured to the brim? That’s sort of what I’d expect, which is why you buy 590ml glasses to hold 473ml of beer…
I’m surprised by your surprise. I would expect the size to list the actual maximum content, so that would indeed only apply for the glass filled to the brim. How else would you properly define the size of the cup? I find it handy to know that when using such a cup as a measure.
Maybe this is indeed a European thing. Or maybe just my personal ignorance.
WTF? Just poor your drink into the damn glass until it’s almost full. Then… Drink it. What they difference does it make how it’s labeled in ounces? You want measurements, build a meth lab.
If I’m reading the OP correctly, the glass only holds SEVEN OUNCES of actual liquid water when filled to the brim, although the “water weight” is equivalent to eight ounces.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if this is right, then I think that’s a legitimate gripe.
Actually if I buy an 8 oz drinking glass, I’m not really expecting it to be calibrated to an exact measure. It’s more of a generic approximation as in “tumbler” size or “drinking glass” size.
The beef is that the size of the drinking glass is off by an ounce?
Only one problem, racinchikki…her claim that the 7 fluid oz glass held 8 oz of water when weighed is bullshit. The ratio of a fluid oz of water to it’s actual weight is 1:1.04. Therefore, 7 fluid oz of water would weigh 7.3 oz…not 8, as she claims.
Jadis, the only bullshit being spewed is by you. I stand behind the accuracy of my measurements and lee’s representation thereof. In fact, the “8 ounce” glass holds 8 ounces (by weight) of water, which is somewhat more than 7 fluid ounces, but definitely not eight. (I just verified this a second time, just to be sure.) Given that we used measurement methods that had an error of about half an ounce, measuring an actual value 7.3 as 7 is reasonable experimental error. Getting 7+ ounces of water into that glass requires filling it to the point that you’re relying on surface tension to keep the water in, too.
In an case, why should anyone take seriously someone who appears unable to use the apostrophe correctly? (Or, for that matter, express a thought coherently. Reread your own post; it is internally inconsistent.)
Now that I think about it, I would expect an 8 oz glass to hold 8 oz. plus a bit more, for air space. I have no idea why, I just do. All bets are off when dealing with Ikea, they’re Yurpean and they have their own charming logic.
Given that I come from a country that doesn’t use “ounces” as a measurement, the impression I’m getting from this thread is that “fluid ounces” and “weight ounces” are two different things. Is this correct ?
Thanks Haj ! Very neighbourly of you to provide the explanation
Now that that’s cleared up in my head, Lee I’m with you, in that I’d expect something that was designed to hold fluid to be labelled with the volume unit of measurement, not the weight. I’ve never seen glasses sold over here with the capacity in grams, only in millilitres.
OTOH, I’d expect the measurement to be up to the brim. If you need to get certain measurements, how would you be able to know what a ‘reasonable space’ at the top would be ? I would expect to fill it to the brim, knowing that that amount was the advertised capacity, and sip it down a little before moving the cup.
Waitaminute, it occurs to me that some people are using drinking glasses to measure. Now I understand why you’d expect a glass to hold x ounces when filled to the brim. All is made clear now, though I still say it should be whatever ounces plus a bit more. For measuring accurately, I’d use a measuring cup.
This is clearly true. The glass manufacturer has no idea if you want to use their glasses for water or mercury which have very different weights for the same volume.
