Tell me about your scale

MrsLannister

I'm curious what type of kitchen scales people use, how accurate they are, and how they like them.

Right now, I have an EatSmart scale that I have had for exactly 5 years almost to the day. The scale actually calculates calories and other nutritional information for you. I got it before I had a smartphone that could do that.

I like the scale and it seems accurate, but I am finding that my needs are changing. I need something with a higher weight capacity. It can only weigh up to 11 pounds. That's fine for most things, but if I am calculating calories per serving for a large recipe, I need something that can tell me the weight of the whole recipe, and this can't always do that.

I've been looking for something with a higher weight capacity that is still accurate. Most of the ones with the higher capacity have increments in the 2 g to 10 g range. For some foods, that can be a huge range of calories. For instance, almonds are around 5.75 calories per gram, so that is like 12 - 60 calories of inaccuracy between increments.

The best option I have found so far is one that has a 10kg/22lb capacity with .5 g increments. I'd love to know if anyone has found one with that kind of precision and a higher weight capacity.