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    All this talk about food scales

    Posts: 99 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    What kind of food scale do you have?

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    • Posts: 249 Member
      edited May 2015
      I have a weight watchers thing, but just because my sister was buying a new one and gave me her old one.

      If I was buying one, I'd get the Ozeri for $15 on Amazon.
      http://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-Digital-Kitchen-Capacity-Stylish/dp/B003E7AZQA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431736218&sr=8-1&keywords=weightwatchers+food+scale
    • Posts: 1,233 Member
      Mine is a digital, no brand on it. On the back it says "digital kitchen scale". I can do oz, or grams and it is super easy to use. Knowing me, I bought it on Amazon
    • Posts: 7,088 Member
      I just have the 13$ one from Wal-Mart. There's no name brand on it but it works just fine
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      I have a taylor digital scale. Just make sure you can measure in ounces and grams and it has a tare option.
    • Posts: 1,771 Member
      PopeyeCT wrote: »
      I have a weight watchers thing, but just because my sister was buying a new one and gave me her old one.

      If I was buying one, I'd get the Ozeri for $15 on Amazon.
      http://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-Digital-Kitchen-Capacity-Stylish/dp/B003E7AZQA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431736218&sr=8-1&keywords=weightwatchers+food+scale

      I have this and I like it.
    • Posts: 115 Member
      edited May 2015
      I have a Salter digital that I picked up at a goodwill before I started using MFP. Still works, and I like that it takes AAA batteries instead of button style ones.

      I actually bought a Taylor scale at Target this week just to see if mine was measuring as accurately. I hated it and took it back. It felt cheap, the numbers flickered, and it had a huge lag time when I'd tare.
    • Posts: 99 Member
      arditarose wrote: »
      I have a taylor digital scale. Just make sure you can measure in ounces and grams and it has a tare option.

      What is a tare option?
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      pwh300 wrote: »
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      What is a tare option?

      You can put a plate on it and "tare" it to zero before you add food. Or you can add one ingredient, and tare it back to zero before you add another.
    • Posts: 99 Member
      Thank you.
    • Posts: 43 Member
      I have the ones from when I used to make soap and bath goodies as a part time side business. the big scale is pelouze postage one that goes up to 5 lbs and the little one is one I got from a head shop. Really accurate cause I used to be measuring chemicals and just a bit off can mess up a whole batch or soap or bath fizzies.
    • Posts: 3,574 Member
      I bought this one because it has a large platform and a large display. My other scale was a cheaper one, $15 Oster brand. Worked fine but I wanted to be able to put bigger dishes on it and still be able to see the display. I love this scale!!!!

      http://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Precision-Elite-Digital-Kitchen/dp/B009EUPMFK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431736956&sr=8-2&keywords=eat+smart+food+scale
    • Posts: 743 Member
      Tare option <3 best thing ever.

    • Posts: 21 Member
      $14 dollar scale from Walmart. No name. Nothing special but it gets the job done.
    • Posts: 860 Member
      I have the $15 black slimline scale from Walmart. Works just fine.
    • Posts: 860 Member
      edited May 2015
      LisaRoloff wrote: »
      I have the ones from when I used to make soap and bath goodies as a part time side business. the big scale is pelouze postage one that goes up to 5 lbs and the little one is one I got from a head shop. Really accurate cause I used to be measuring chemicals and just a bit off can mess up a whole batch or soap or bath fizzies.

      Lol

    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      LisaRoloff wrote: »
      I have the ones from when I used to make soap and bath goodies as a part time side business. the big scale is pelouze postage one that goes up to 5 lbs and the little one is one I got from a head shop. Really accurate cause I used to be measuring chemicals and just a bit off can mess up a whole batch or soap or bath fizzies.

      I actually never thought of getting one there. I live closer to a head shop than any target/department store.
    • Posts: 860 Member
      arditarose wrote: »
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      You can put a plate on it and "tare" it to zero before you add food. Or you can add one ingredient, and tare it back to zero before you add another.

      Yes! Mine does this and it is awesome! Do not get an analog scale that doesn't have a tare/zero button. I made that mistake with the first one I bought and had to return it. It was even called a "diet scale", but it was completely useless. It only went up to 2 lbs and the numbers were segmented by 20 gram increments. That means the measurement could be off by 20 grams and you wouldn't even know. 20 grams is a lot when you're weighing food.
    • Posts: 49 Member
      I have this OXO scale. It's a bit more expensive than the other suggestions so far, but the feature I like about it most is that you have up to a half hour to keep adding things while it will remember the most recent tare. This is useful when cutting up veggies for example (I'm slow with the knife; perhaps this more expensive scale is the tax on my lack of skill!).

      I also used the ozeri model mentioned earlier. It worked fine, but would shut off after two minutes. If needing more time to do multiple tares doesn't matter to you, it is a great value.
    • Posts: 37 Member
      I have this one. I love that I can take the glass off to clean.

      Ozeri The Epicurean LED Kitchen Scale with Removable Glass Weighing Platform, 18-Pound, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WLPVUG/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_YHRvvb0N5XFYJ
    • Posts: 17,456 Member
      arditarose wrote: »
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      You can put a plate on it and "tare" it to zero before you add food. Or you can add one ingredient, and tare it back to zero before you add another.

      This type
    • Posts: 1,771 Member
      seiffertrk wrote: »
      I have this OXO scale. It's a bit more expensive than the other suggestions so far, but the feature I like about it most is that you have up to a half hour to keep adding things while it will remember the most recent tare. This is useful when cutting up veggies for example (I'm slow with the knife; perhaps this more expensive scale is the tax on my lack of skill!).

      I also used the ozeri model mentioned earlier. It worked fine, but would shut off after two minutes. If needing more time to do multiple tares doesn't matter to you, it is a great value.

      That is my only complaint about the Ozeri. Kind of annoying, because who wants to mise en place a salad? I'm close-ish to goal and I think I'm going to splurge on a new scale, since I feel out of control when I can't log and that's probably not going to change in maintenance.
    • Posts: 402 Member
      +1 for that OXO scale. I got mine long before I started here on MFP to measure ingredients for sausage making. It's a very nice piece of equipment and being able to pull the display out when you have large plates/bowls on it is a very convenient feature.
    • Posts: 99 Member
      PopeyeCT wrote: »
      I have a weight watchers thing, but just because my sister was buying a new one and gave me her old one.

      If I was buying one, I'd get the Ozeri for $15 on Amazon.
      http://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-Digital-Kitchen-Capacity-Stylish/dp/B003E7AZQA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431736218&sr=8-1&keywords=weightwatchers+food+scale

      Just ordered this...thanks for the suggestion.
    • Posts: 433 Member
      seiffertrk wrote: »
      I have this OXO scale.

      I just got this for Mother's Day. I'm loving it so far.

    • Posts: 45 Member
      Thanks for the tip. I just ordered one! ;--)
    • Posts: 4,374 Member
      seiffertrk wrote: »
      I have this OXO scale. It's a bit more expensive than the other suggestions so far, but the feature I like about it most is that you have up to a half hour to keep adding things while it will remember the most recent tare. This is useful when cutting up veggies for example (I'm slow with the knife; perhaps this more expensive scale is the tax on my lack of skill!).

      I also used the ozeri model mentioned earlier. It worked fine, but would shut off after two minutes. If needing more time to do multiple tares doesn't matter to you, it is a great value.
      Automatic shut off is so annoying. I would rather spend extra money on batteries than have to deal with it.

    • Posts: 99 Member
      spacequiztime wrote: »
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      Automatic shut off is so annoying. I would rather spend extra money on batteries than have to deal with it.

      I would rather see how much I use something before before spending more money on it. I think this will be fine. So it automatically shuts off. Can't you just turn it back on?
    • Posts: 4,374 Member
      pwh300 wrote: »
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      I would rather see how much I use something before before spending more money on it. I think this will be fine. So it automatically shuts off. Can't you just turn it back on?
      I completely understand you. Even with as often as I use my current scale, I'm not sure I'd want to spend that much money on a new one. I just wanted to vent a little.


    • Posts: 49 Member
      pwh300 wrote: »
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      I would rather see how much I use something before before spending more money on it. I think this will be fine. So it automatically shuts off. Can't you just turn it back on?

      Yes, you can turn it back on. The problem comes in when I'm cutting up veggies especially. I'll cut some, add those, cut some more, and it turned off. So then I have to pick out what I put in so far, re-tare, and start over.

      I know, learn to cut faster. Alas, the tax...
    • Posts: 15,267 Member
      I have a starfrit I got on sale.

      I put my plate on then turn it on...goes to zero. Tare button, oz/grams and lbs/kgs up to 5lbs I think.

      It has an automatic shut off too...not that big of a deal. I write down the weights if I know I am going to be a while.
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