Shopping for best food scale

fraklein

I'm tired of guessing how much food I'm eating, so I would like to buy a food scale. I don't have much money, but I do want accuracy. Any suggestions? Thanks for your support!

KickassAmazon76

I got mine for like... 12 from Walmart and it does the trick.... As long as I use it. Lol

Marcus_Eating_Donuts

Amazon has decent digital scales for $14. I like the tare feature that lets me set the scale to zero with an empty plate on it then I can weigh the food. I have even done this in steps so that I weigh the chicken, tare the scale, add and weigh the rice, microwave, log, and enjoy.

Chef_Barbell

I got mine at Costco for like $14

Jennliftsandspins

I’ve had a Starfrit for probably 15 years. It still works great. Look for a tare function and a units function.

kshama2001

This Ozeri comes in different colors and at $9.97 red was the cheapest when I bought it. Another poster here said the batteries last a really long time. I also have an expensive XOX but it eats batteries and is not good with just a few grams. I've had the Ozeri for about a week and like it.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NX47YP4/

Dogmom1978

If you are in the US, get a food scale from somewhere with a return policy. Set it to grams. Put a nickle on the scale. It should weigh exactly 5 grams.

Also useful to check the batteries as they tend to become less accurate when the batteries run low. 😊

acpgee

Check what type of battery they use. Some types of batteries are more expensive than others.

callsitlikeiseeit

ive had several, most off amazon. some more $ than others, but none over $30. they've all been decent.

features I love:

tare
ability to switch between grams/ounces
easy to clean/waterproof
a display that pulls out so if you have a large plate or bowl on it, you can still read it. (I only had this on one or two but LOVED it. my current one does not have that feature)

AnnPT77

Agree with the above, but wanted to add a couple feature recommendations:

1. Displaying negative weights. (Hugely important for me: Put peanut butter jar on scale, tare, take out blob of peanut butter, read negative value because it's the amount I took out. Big time-saver, for many foods in containers, blocks of cheese, etc.)
2. Weighing at least the weight of your largest frequently-used pot, when it's full. This is useful for recipes, so you can set the serving size to the number of grams in a whole dish, then easily log portions of various sizes as you use it up. I don't worry about the super-giant stockpot I only use occasionally, just the routine ones.)

You can get around the pull-out display (which is indeed a nice feature): Put a stable, lightweight bowl on the scale, the thing you want to weigh on top of it, to create a "riser" so you can read the display).

goal06082021

I have an Escali that I got on Amazon. The platform is very stable, it measures in grams, will show negative values, and takes like four minutes to time out. It runs on two AA batteries.

fraklein

Thank you for all your suggestions! So many things that wouldn't occur to me.

Onedaywriter

kshama2001 wrote: »

This Ozeri comes in different colors and at $9.97 red was the cheapest when I bought it. Another poster here said the batteries last a really long time. I also have an expensive XOX but it eats batteries and is not good with just a few grams. I've had the Ozeri for about a week and like it.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NX47YP4/

I have this one too for about nine months. I like it so much I bought it as a gift for someone else. It does negative, tare weight and goes to 11+lbs (5kg). I don’t recall ever changing the batteries but maybe I did.

AnnPT77

Oh, BTW, don't remember anyone mentioning this, by I think it's a nice-to-have (though not essential) feature: Battery type.

Personally, I prefer a scale that takes AA or AAA batteries, because I pretty much always keep a pack around. I had a scale that required some particular one of the many little flat watch-type batteries, and when it needed new batteries I was usually SOL until I went shopping.