OXO Steel Angled Measuring Jigger

Last updated: 6 October 2026

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What the angle does

An ordinary measuring vessel puts its markings on the outside wall, running up the side. To use it properly you have to get your eye level with the liquid, which in practice means bending over the worktop, or lifting the thing and squinting at it while it drips.

OXO's fix is to run a spiral ramp down the inside of the cup and print the markings on that. The ramp rises as it goes round, so a given level of liquid meets it at a point you can see from directly above. Stand over it, pour, stop when the liquid reaches the line. There is no second step and nothing to check.

It sounds like a small thing until you use one for a fortnight and then go back to a normal jigger. Small amounts are where measuring by eye goes wrong, and this is a tool built for small amounts.

Specification

The markings are the one spec where OXO's two sites disagree, and it decides what you can actually read off the ramp. OXO UK lists millilitres and tablespoons. OXO US lists ounces and tablespoons. The Amazon UK listing describes it as "2 Ounces", which suggests US-spec stock. If you want millilitres on the ramp, that is a question worth asking the seller.

The price, plainly

OXO sells this for $11.99 on its own American site. Amazon UK wants £22.48 for it, which is roughly double once converted, and the listing is a marketplace one rather than an Amazon-stocked line. The title on that listing is also mangled, running a seller name, the model number and the product name together, which is usually the sign of a third party importing stock rather than a distributor.

Lakeland used to carry it under code 62112 and now lists it as unavailable, so there is no obvious UK retail alternative at the moment. Consequently £22.48 is the price of having one in Britain this month rather than the price of the object. If you are not in a hurry, watch for a UK stockist to pick it back up.

Where the angled measure came from

The ramp is not a gimmick bolted onto a bar tool. It is the second-generation version of the idea that started OXO.

Sam Farber had run the kitchenware company Copco and retired in 1988. His wife was finding ordinary kitchen tools hard to use, and Farber, who called a lot of what was on sale "functional disasters", asked what Cooper Hewitt records as the founding question: "if you made comfortable tools, wouldn't everybody use them?" He took that to the industrial design firm Smart Design, and Good Grips launched at the start of the 1990s with twenty kitchen tools built on the principle that a product designed for the person having the hardest time is a better product for everybody.

That principle has a name, universal design, and OXO is the reason most people have held an example of it. Fortune and the IIT Institute of Design later ranked the Good Grips peeler sixth on a list of the hundred most important designs of all time. The angled measure is the same reasoning applied to reading rather than gripping: instead of asking the user to move, move the information.

Who it suits

Anyone measuring spirits, vinegar, oil, syrup or vanilla in small quantities, which is to say anyone making cocktails or dressings. It is dishwasher safe steel, so it will outlast the plastic version by decades, and at this size it lives in a drawer rather than taking up worktop.

It is not a measuring jug and it will not replace one. Two fluid ounces is 60ml, so anything bigger than a dressing needs something else. If you are building out a kitchen rather than filling a gap, the site's Robert Welch Signature cook's knife page covers the tool that actually deserves the money first.

Frequently asked questions

How much is the OXO angled jigger in the UK?

£22.48 on Amazon UK, with only five in stock, checked 6 September 2026. OXO's US price is $11.99.

How much does it hold?

Two fluid ounces, or four tablespoons, which is about 60ml. OXO does not print a capacity on its own product pages.

Is it stainless steel or plastic?

This one is stainless steel. OXO also makes a clear plastic Good Grips mini angled measuring cup at the same capacity, which is a different product at a much lower price.

Is it dishwasher safe?

Yes, per OXO.

Does it show millilitres?

OXO's UK page says millilitres and tablespoons; OXO's US page says ounces and tablespoons. The Amazon UK listing reads "2 Ounces", so check before buying if metric matters to you.

Can I buy it anywhere other than Amazon?

Not easily right now. Lakeland stocked it as code 62112 and currently lists it as unavailable.

Sources

• OXO UK: dimensions, material, markings and dishwasher status.
• OXO US: the patented angled surface, the US price and the US markings.
• Amazon UK: UK price and stock, checked in a browser on 6 September 2026.
• Cooper Hewitt on Sam Farber: the founding of OXO and the "functional disasters" quote.
• Smart Design: the twenty launch tools, universal design and the peeler's ranking.

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