I bought this for dividing lumps of dough so I end up with buns and rolls of similar size. Any measuring device is most accurate at the midpoint of its range; you shouldn't use a yardstick to measure some less than 6" or greater than 3-" in length, not if you need accuracy, and this scale's "sweet spot" was appropriate for me.
I bought this about 2 months after buying a mechanical kitchen scale from Webstaurant Store, and it wants you to invert the cover, providing a bin to put things in. If might be suitable for weighing dry ingredients, but it didn't cut the mustard for my purposes.
There were cheaper scales out there, but I finally learned in my 30s that buying too-cheap tools was far too expensive for me. Sites that sell primarily to restaurants don't sell cheap crap, because they depend on repeat business, and I found that this brand is carried by them, The sites that sell to wanna-be gourmet chefs sell a lot of gimmicky stuff for people who have too much money in their pocket and too big a kitchen.
I didn't read the manual, and my biggest problem was figuring out how to open the battery cover, and that must have taken me 15 or 20 seconds, because, if there's way for a battery cover to break, I'll discover it. Rest assured, there are no surprises here, and the battery cover is durable.
My eyesight is failing (which is why I didn't read the manual), but I quickly found a button that turns it on, and another one that switches from ounces to grams. If left unattended, it turns itself off, which is good, or it'd cot me a fortune in batteries. When it turns on, it zeroes out the tare. If I had a lump of sweet roll dough on the scale, and I removed it, it would show a weight of MINUS 93 grams. which told me all I needed to know. I punched the on/off button twice, and the scale zeroed out again.
My late first wife always said that no perfume. no lingerie, no porn, excited a man as much as a stroll through a great hardware store, and I never gave her reason to doubt that. I love a tool that's well-designed, and well-made, so that it's a delight to work with it. This scale is lightweight, but is sure-footed, it's east to keep clean, it's compact so that it's easy to keep handy; you can even store it sideways between cookbooks on the bookshelf.
I read a lot of reviews of other scales before I crossed my fingers, stuck my tongue in the "lucky" corner of my mouth, and clicked to buy this. The scale arrived in jig time, well-packaged, and the vendor contacted me to make sure everything was jake with the order. I can't think of ANY "gotchas" with this item, not one.
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| Price | Currently unavailable. | $27.24 | $61.00 | $12.59 | -32% $23.70 List: $34.99 | $26.94 |
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| material | Steel | Plastic | — | Stainless Steel | Plastic | Plastic |
| max weight capacity | 11 pounds | 11 pounds | 5 kilograms | 11 pounds | 8 pounds | 6.6 pounds |
| weight | 0.9 pounds | 0.7 pounds | 0.7 kilograms | 0.84 pounds | 1.17 pounds | 1.1 pounds |
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All the features I wanted, good price, easy to use and store. Highly recommend!
Best price and product for most home kitchens. Love that it can do both metric and US measures with just a flip of the switch, no having to hunt down a conversion chart. Easy to read dial. Liquid and dry measures, up to 11 lbs. Good size for most home use - photos show a medium all-clad mixing bowl, and an 8 ¾ " paper plate on top so you can see the dial's readability. I researched this one a lot - had bought a few clunkers, and am very happy with it.
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