Mixing bowls
Priority Chef Etched measurements, silicone base
Steel bowls with etched internal measurements, a silicone base and airtight lids washed by hand.
Specifications
- Measurements
- Etched inside, doubling as measuring cups
- Why etched
- Etched marks survive a dishwasher; printed ones wear off
- Lids
- Airtight and BPA-free — but to be washed by hand
- Base
- Non-toxic non-slip silicone
- Material
- Stainless steel, stated thicker than industry standard
- Dishwasher
- Top-rack safe; the lids are to be hand washed
- Smallest published size
- 1.5 — the bullet is truncated
- Piece count
- Not published
- Full capacities
- Not published
- Steel gauge
- Not published, despite the "thicker" claim
- Microwave
- Not claimed — no steel set here does
- Weight
- Not published by the maker
- Warranty
- Not published by the maker
- Amazon reference
- B01A10A9UO
- EAN
- 0784672874366
What you are getting
Stainless steel bowls with airtight BPA-free lids, etched measurements inside, a non-slip silicone base, in steel stated thicker than industry standard. Top-rack dishwasher safe — wash the lids by hand.
Etched measurements remove a utensil
Etched measurements that double as measuring cups.
Two sets on this shelf graduate their bowls: this and Ziruma. It means you mix and measure in the same vessel — no measuring cup to find, fill and wash.
And the word matters. Etched survives the dishwasher; printed wears off in a year.
The lid instruction is the most honest on this shelf
“top rack dishwasher safe [Wash Lids By Hand]”
Which quietly confirms the argument Ziruma builds its whole listing on: plastic lids warp in a machine and then stop sealing. Priority Chef has plastic lids and tells you so; Ziruma supplies glass ones and says “say goodbye to flimsy plastic lids”.
Six sets here have lids. Read that bracket as applying to most of them.
A silicone base
Keep your bowl exactly where you want it no matter how passionately you mix.
Six of thirteen sets have one, and it is the commonest complaint about cheap bowls.
And the thickness claim argues with itself
Thicker than industry standard stainless steel that can last a lifetime, yet they still remain lightweight.
Both halves cannot be true of the same bowl, and no gauge is published. Boskermeal makes the same claim, also without a figure.
What is not published
Only partial capacities (“sizes are 1.5, …”). No piece count. No weight. No microwave claim — no steel set here makes one. No warranty.
Availability
On sale at around $38 on the American Amazon store at the time of checking.
Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 4 October 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
The questions that come in
How useful are etched measurements?
They remove a utensil from every recipe, and only two sets on this shelf have them. Priority Chef publishes "etched measurements that double as measuring cups", and Ziruma states "measurement marks for accuracy". What that means in practice: you pour the milk into the bowl you are going to mix in, read it off the wall, and never touch a measuring jug — which is one fewer thing to find, fill, pour out and wash, on every single recipe. The reason the word etched matters is durability: an etched mark is cut into the steel and survives a dishwasher indefinitely, where a printed or painted scale fades and then misleads. Eleven of the thirteen sets here have no marks at all.
Why does it say to hand wash the lids?
Because plastic lids warp, and this is the most honest sentence on the shelf. Priority Chef publishes "top rack dishwasher safe [Wash Lids By Hand]" — the bowls can take a machine, the lids cannot. The mechanism is simple: a plastic lid is a thin molding under tension when it seals, and a hot cycle softens it just enough to relax out of shape. Once it has, it never seals properly again. Ziruma builds its entire listing on this and solves it with glass lids: "say goodbye to flimsy plastic lids... sturdy, dishwasher-safe glass lids that keep their shape and seal." Six sets here have lids, and this bracket applies to most of them whether they say so or not.
Can steel be thicker and lightweight at once?
Not of the same bowl, and the claim contains both: "thicker than industry standard stainless steel that can last a lifetime, yet they still remain lightweight and easy to handl[e]." Thicker steel is heavier steel — that is what thickness means — so one half of the sentence is doing marketing work. Nor is any gauge published, which is the figure that would settle it. Boskermeal on this shelf makes the identical claim ("thicker stainless steel... better than thinner brands") and also publishes no gauge. The only way to check on this shelf is weight, and the sets that publish one are Cuisinart (1,769 g (62.4 oz) for three bowls), Viking (2,722 g (96 oz) for ten pieces) and Pyrex Colors (4,019 g (141.8 oz) for three glass bowls). Neither thickness-claiming set publishes a weight at all.
