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I have only seen this type of spoon. what shape have you been using? or do you use a teaspoon for a "teaspoon" ? I think that is highly inaccurate. I love oval shapes to reach into jars easier.

In my little world, ALL measuring spoons have always looked just like this. What kind of spoons have you been using before now, Emma? I'm really curious!

Lol, is it really just me?! The ones they gave us at culinary school (and the ones I had before) were super cheap, almost flat, shallow spoons. Like these ones at Kmart from the Martha Stewart line:

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_9990000011880311P?keyword=measuring spoons&vName=For the Home&cName=Cookware%2C Bakeware %26 Gadgets&sName=Cooking Tools %26 Gadgets

Completely inaccurate and frustrating to use!

I was wondering the same thing... all my measuring spoons look like a variation of those pictured above. Some are new, but some were swiped from my mom's kitchen stash. They all measure from 1/4 tsp to 1 Tb. What kind of set have you been using?

Huh. I'd never seen those before, Emma. My folks got me some rectangular ones from William Sonoma (Bed, Bath and Beyond might also carry them) for Christmas last year and they're fabulous. They fit in EVERYTHING.

I have been using these stainless ones for...years... and have to say, they are pretty annoying as they don't fit a number of containers. Much prefer the elongated ones, like the RSVP ones above, or the ones Tiamat describes...

My grandmother has this kind of measuring spoon, which may be what Emma is talking about. Shallow and wide. My mother has a set that are deeper and trapezoid-shaped (sorry can't find a picture), but have flimsy handles. After destroying two cheap sets in college (one plastic, one metal) I bought the oval cuisipro spoons, which are nice and hefty. A few don't fit in my spice jars (Tbsp, occasionally the tsp), but I prefer the ovular shape to the rectangular shape. (Also, amazon had a sale on the spoons and cups sold as one set.)

I have the RSVP set and really like them. They are narrow, so they fit through jar mouths easily. I cook for two, and halve recipes frequently, so the 1/8 tsp measure is nice to have.

I just got some of these for Christmas... love 'em!

i have these oval spoons, and love them. but i like having multiple sets around, so i still often use my old plastic spoons (which are round like those pictured).

I used to have the shallow oval spoons, but bought the OXO set a year or so ago. They're fabulous, except that they don't have ml conversions. I find the metric conversions help me if I'm dividing a recipe in half, or increasing it by 50%, or doing some other kind of scaling.

My mom got me one of these:
http://www.cheftools.com/prodinfo.asp?number=06-0144

It's basically a shot glass measuring glass with up to about 2tbls. It makes measuring small amounts of liquid so much easier. Unfortunately it only goes down 1 tsp, but it's still great for most recipes.