Are food scales helpful?

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  • bean_jean
    bean_jean Posts: 12 Member
    I've had my Ozeri for about a week and it is as good as everyone here said it would be. thanks.
  • Pootler74
    Pootler74 Posts: 223 Member
    edited January 2015
    Something that doesn't get mentioned on MFP is that you can actually sometimes use your scale for measuring some liquids, which makes buying one an even better idea. Some scales have this feature built in, and you can search on Amazon for one that measures liquid.

    For fluids with the same density as water (juice, milk, and I'll even do this for booze) a gram meis more or less equal to a millilitre. A fluid ounce is more or less equal to an ounce in weight.

    I've checked this with my cute Oxo Good Grips teeny tiny measuring jugs, and it's accurate enough that I use my scale this way all the time, especially when putting protein smoothies together.

    (I'll even do things like mayo and oil this way too if I can't find an entry in the database that gives values for single grammes, but only ml. However, I still have a lot of weight to lose and my deficit is large enough to take any discrepancies this might cause.)
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Pootler74 wrote: »
    Something that doesn't get mentioned on MFP is that you can actually sometimes use your scale for measuring some liquids, which makes buying one an even better idea. Some scales have this feature built in, and you can search on Amazon for one that measures liquid.

    For fluids with the same density as water (juice, milk, and I'll even do this for booze) a gram meis more or less equal to a millilitre. A fluid ounce is more or less equal to an ounce in weight.

    I've checked this with my cute Oxo Good Grips teeny tiny measuring jugs, and it's accurate enough that I use my scale this way all the time, especially when putting protein smoothies together.

    (I'll even do things like mayo and oil this way too if I can't find an entry in the database that gives values for single grammes, but only ml. However, I still have a lot of weight to lose and my deficit is large enough to take any discrepancies this might cause.)

    This is true as well. I noticed the mL setting on my scale and tried it and it was accurate.
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    I held off getting one for a long time, but they are totally worth it.
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