Fiesta 18-Ounce Jumbo Cup Review

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Like many underemployed young adults, I work part time as a barista. A coffee-shop standard mug fill is within about 1/2 cm of the lip of the cup--not all the way to the rim, but certainly not low enough that you don't run a risk of spilling it if you walk too quickly. If I pull a 16oz Americano into a grande eat-in mug, the mug fills almost to the rim.

My guess is the measurements of volume for this cup taken by other reviewers were taken by filling the mug to what they felt was a comfortable fill and then dumping the liquid into a measuring cup. After seeing all the complaints, I decided to do an experiment, which I repeated twice--when 18oz fit perfectly in my mug, I figured I must have mis-measured. But no. If instead of filling the cup and then seeing how much is in it, you instead measure out 18oz of fluid and put that INTO this mug, you get a very standard coffeehouse mug fill--almost to the very brim, but just enough that there's room to sip.

This is an 18oz mug by the standards of people who create mugs. If you like to have lots of room so that you won't spill your coffee, that's fine--but that doesn't mean this cup doesn't hold 18oz. It absolutely does.

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These mugs are a disappointment, the colors and the size are inaccurate in the listing. I ordered these in plum, tangerine, peacock, and scarlet.

First off, the colors are very muted, not bright like in the pictures. Scarlet is more like a deep milky watermelon,Tangerine is light and milky. The Plum and Peacock are darker than pictured.

None of them will hold 18 oz.

The bowl of the scarlet cup is visibly larger than the other three, but even it only holds (up to the level top) 17 oz. The maximum any of them hold comfortably is about 15 oz.

There are flaws in the pottery and the glazing as well. The scarlet and Tangerine handles are quite crooked. There are white spots at first I thought were chips on the lip of the plum mug, but they are glazing issues. The Red and plum inside handles have what may have been bubbles in the glaze that are now rough dots/spots on the inside of the handles, which will be annoying while holding them over time.

The listing SHOULD be accurate.

These are still one of the largest capacity mugs I've found-but with the flaws, and color issues, they are a tad expensive.

These should be hand picked by the buyer in a store, so as to see and accept the flaws if desired.

Too much hassle to return.

Buyer beware......

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These mugs hold 16 ounces if filled to the brim, rather than the advertised 18 ounces. It is irksome, because I bought a set of these to replace an old set of 18 ounce Gibson ceramic mugs that we use for everything from cereal to soup. The Fiesta mugs are well made, colorful, and easy to handle. I will keep them because the Gibson mugs don't seem to be made anymore. I would rate the mugs 5 stars, but my huband is going to gripe about the smaller size. Sigh.

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I'm with the hubby on a previous review. It's advertised as being an 18 oz. mug and it is most definitely NOT. Using a Pyrex measuring cup I found my mug holds 14 oz. A half cup short makes a big difference. Looks-wise it's okay, but it is too small for my purposes. I feel used.

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I love the size and color of these mugs, but the handles are already starting to break off (can hear the ceramic moving and can see a crack when you hold the handle). I'm not sure if the 2 mugs I bought were an anomaly or that the product is just poorly put together.