Scale tare shenanigans

zyxst
zyxst Posts: 9,151 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I use the hell out of the tare function of my scale. Just venting/ranting about a out-of-nowhere "glitch" that occasionally happens with this scale.

Put plate on scale
Tare
Add banana, write down 53g
Tare
Add snapeas, write down 21g
Tare
Add Oreos, write down 29g
Put bowl on scale
Tare
Add yogurt, write down 175g
Tare
Add honey, write down 9g
Tare
Add 1 T scoop of oats, write down 234g

WTF?!

That 234 grams is for the bowl of yogurt AND honey AND 1 scoop of oats. From habit, I know that 1 T scoop is around 11-12 grams. Randomly throwing out how much my entire lunch weighs because when I'm hungry I really want to do math.

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  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    I was thinking about the volume of food in my salad for lunch today. I thought it was a pretty light meal, but felt very full afterwards. I just added up how many grams the whole meal was, 389g. No wonder I was full afterwards :)
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    Yeah, when I add that many ingredients, I usually don't even bother trying to tare. I'll just add the numbers together.

    I really need to get a new scale...
  • johnnylakis
    johnnylakis Posts: 812 Member
    zyxst wrote: »
    From habit, I know that 1 T scoop is around 11-12 grams. Randomly throwing out how much my entire lunch weighs because when I'm hungry I really want to do math.
    I am one of the few Americans who is fluent in metric. One tablespoon of water at 4 degrees Celsius is 15g. If you are measuring anything else (sugar, yogurt, mayonaisse, butter, etc) you aren't looking at 15g. There is no way that the banana is 53g (under 2 ounces). The average banana weighs at least 100 grams (4 ounces) peeled.

  • DeficitDuchess
    DeficitDuchess Posts: 3,099 Member
    edited November 2016
    I never use the tare, especially because I've often weighed something twice & it was a different gram, then I had to weigh it a 3rd time; to choose the 2 out of 3 option!

    Nice new, profile picture btw; you look very happy! :)
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,151 Member
    johnnylakis wrote: »
    zyxst wrote: »
    From habit, I know that 1 T scoop is around 11-12 grams. Randomly throwing out how much my entire lunch weighs because when I'm hungry I really want to do math.
    I am one of the few Americans who is fluent in metric. One tablespoon of water at 4 degrees Celsius is 15g. If you are measuring anything else (sugar, yogurt, mayonaisse, butter, etc) you aren't looking at 15g. There is no way that the banana is 53g (under 2 ounces). The average banana weighs at least 100 grams (4 ounces) peeled.

    It's called half a banana. I'm glad you're able to tell me how much my banana weighed when you weren't here to see me weigh it and I even stated it's 53 grams. Maybe it was a baby banana!

    The tablespoon scoop is just a tool to get the oats out of the container more easily. That's why I scoop the oats out onto a scale to get the weight. I've used the same scoop for 5 months to portion out oats. Leveling it off gives either 11 or 12 grams of weighed oats, depending on settling.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    One day last week, one day only, my scale was giving me senseless readings at breakfast. It claimed that my Ole' tortilla was 21 grams. I was forced to guess what I was eating for breakfast. It was terrible, terrible. #NotMyScale.
  • CurlyCockney
    CurlyCockney Posts: 1,394 Member
    Mine does this too! I think that it happens when I change the dish as you did (from plate to bowl), it sometimes randomly tares to the first thing (in this instance, plate), instead of the second one (bowl). I on/off between dishes now, and then tare again.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    What's even worse is if you're adding things too slowly and the scale turns itself off half way through :rage:
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    What's even worse is if you're adding things too slowly and the scale turns itself off half way through :rage:
    While I see the point in automatic shut off, I am buying a scale that doesn't do that as soon as I see it.

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