Food scale

AnaA78

I bought my very first food scale.. any helpful ways to use the scale will be greatly appreciated!!

thomasegbert09

I am getting my tomorrow. I read on here it is better to weigh by grams.

livingleanlivingclean

Utilise the tare/zero function.

Weighing things out of a container is often easier - PB for example. Instead of weighing Pb on to something, put the whole jar on the scale, tare it, take out how many grams you need. The negative number is how much you've removed. This saves having goodness knows how much left on the knife or spoon that you haven't accounted for that no doubt ends up in your mouth anyway!

AnaA78

Ty both!

OhMsDiva

I try to keep things simple. I just put the plate or container on the scale, hit the tare, then add the food. It is also good if you are having say fruit and yogurt. You can hit the tare after adding each food and have it in the container already to eat.

mistymeadows2005

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

Utilise the tare/zero function.

Weighing things out of a container is often easier - PB for example. Instead of weighing Pb on to something, put the whole jar on the scale, tare it, take out how many grams you need. The negative number is how much you've removed. This saves having goodness knows how much left on the knife or spoon that you haven't accounted for that no doubt ends up in your mouth anyway!

Great idea!

rheddmobile

I weigh things like peanut butter or mayo by weighing the plate with bread, spoon or knife on it, hitting the tare button, scooping out the peanut butter, and putting the knife with peanut butter back on the plate on the scale.

The tare button is definitely your best friend, since you can make something like a complicated salad and measure each ingredient as you put it in the bowl.

I also like to use MFP entries for 100g since it's easy math to scale up or down.

Chadxx

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

Utilise the tare/zero function.

Weighing things out of a container is often easier - PB for example. Instead of weighing Pb on to something, put the whole jar on the scale, tare it, take out how many grams you need. The negative number is how much you've removed. This saves having goodness knows how much left on the knife or spoon that you haven't accounted for that no doubt ends up in your mouth anyway!

I do this with LOTS of things.

livingleanlivingclean

OhMsDiva wrote: »

I try to keep things simple. I just put the plate or container on the scale, hit the tare, then add the food. It is also good if you are having say fruit and yogurt. You can hit the tare after adding each food and have it in the container already to eat.

But what about the yoghurt on the spoon that's not in the bowl? If you do it backwards, it still goes in the container ready to eat, and you've accounted for the blobs on the spoon too!

SeikoMonster

To weigh stuff on a plate, turn a bowl upside down, and put the plate on top of it. That way you can still read the numbers.

Rebecca0224

SeikoMonster wrote: »

To weigh stuff on a plate, turn a bowl upside down, and put the plate on top of it. That way you can still read the numbers.

This seems like common sense but I won't admit how long it took me to think of this

Chadxx

OhMsDiva wrote: »

I try to keep things simple. I just put the plate or container on the scale, hit the tare, then add the food. It is also good if you are having say fruit and yogurt. You can hit the tare after adding each food and have it in the container already to eat.

I do this with dry ingredients or things you can pour like egg whites and such.

__TMac__

SeikoMonster wrote: »

To weigh stuff on a plate, turn a bowl upside down, and put the plate on top of it. That way you can still read the numbers.

Smart! That's why I like the Oxo scale with the pull-out faceplate.

Chadxx

I also might or might not have weighed empty containers of Greek yogurt and cottage cheese so that when I have whatever amount left that I will eat at one sitting I don't have to dirty other dishes.

livingleanlivingclean

Chadxx wrote: »

I also might or might not have weighed empty containers of Greek yogurt and cottage cheese so that when I have whatever amount left that I will eat at one sitting I don't have to dirty other dishes.

We have lots of plates/bowls and containers with weights written on them in permanent marker.... Helps in certain situations!

WendyLeigh1119

Keep a little memo pad next to the scale so that when you "tare" after the bowl/dish, add your cereal (tarè and write) then add fruit (tarè and write) add milk.... etc. Obviously just an example, but makes it much faster.

cmriverside

SeikoMonster wrote: »

To weigh stuff on a plate, turn a bowl upside down, and put the plate on top of it. That way you can still read the numbers.

Rebecca0224 wrote: »

SeikoMonster wrote: »

To weigh stuff on a plate, turn a bowl upside down, and put the plate on top of it. That way you can still read the numbers.

This seems like common sense but I won't admit how long it took me to think of this

I just now thought of this. derp. I might have read it somewhere...

I like to play, "How close can I get?" I try to eye-ball everything as I'm putting it on the scale and then look to see how close I am. I can get within 5g for most stuff, and within 0.5 oz for meat. I think it serves me well when I go out to eat.

AnnPT77

My standard tips:

• Assembling a salad in a bowl, a stew in a pan, sandwich on a plate? Put the bowl/pan/plate on the scale, zero, add an ingredient, note the weight, zero, add the next ingredient, note the weight . . . .
• Using something from a carton or jar, or cutting a slice from a hunk of cheese? Put the container or chunk on the scale, zero, take out portion, note the negative value (it's the amount you took out).
• Eating a whole apple, banana, un-hulled strawberries, corn on the cob? Weigh the ready-to-eat food, eat the yummy parts, weigh the core/hulls/peel, subtract & note.
• I like to keep a few clean plastic yogurt-tub lids around to weigh small items, like a handful of nuts or chopped hardboiled eggs or something. Drop the lid on the scale, zero, add item, note weight, eat or use - just a quick rinse of the lid under the faucet & you're done.
• I also use an old junk-mail envelope to scribble the items while I’m cooking to spare spills on my electronic device, and record the results after.

AnaA78

Ty everyone!!!