Need help identifying this

[pnc75]

It has measurements on the side that go to 12 cups, but there's no way it would hold 12 cups. I'm wondering whether it's used to measure amount of powder or ingredient to mix with up to 12 cups of water / liquid? 

I have NO idea

TIA

[countessalmirena]

@pnc75

I think we've all done that - been absolutely sure that [mysterious item] is part of something else, or is something else... and have been insistent about it... only to find some sort of evidence later that we were wrong. It's only then that the confirmatory droplets of memory start to trickle in.

[pnc75]

And from personal experience - the older you get the worse it gets!!! 

[pnc75]

And the final chapter!

It's not from an old grinder, it's from the one that's sitting right there in their kitchen!

They see it hundreds of times per day! But they story is they have never used that container - have always just kept in in the cupboard and somehow came to believe it was part of their juicer. Thank heavens for astute forum members.

[papermoon.lady]

I have just found this:

A "coffee cup" is 1.5 dL or 150 millilitres or 5.07 US customary fluid ounces, and is occasionally used in recipes. It is also used in the US to specify coffeemaker sizes (what can be referred to as a Tasse à café). A "12-cup" US coffeemaker makes 57.6 US customary fluid ounces of coffee, or 6.8 metric cups of coffee.

[countessalmirena]

How satisfying to know that this particular mystery item has been identified!

(Oh yes, that old "It's part of the thing that's right in front of me" outcome ...)