Make it THIS Sunday for guaranteed delivery date--with the order placed @ 19:58 on Friday. Can't complain too much about that 🙊 🤔

But will I use it right away??? (Seasonal eating out on both Saturday and Sunday). Goofing off pics coming up soon 🤣

Amazon says that lettucie or Letucia or (thinking names which could prevent defenestration if unhappy) has shipped and is expected today

Busy day today. Chores: vaccuming, folding the laundry I did yesterday, washing two loads of bedding and wrestling the sheets back onto our leesa mattress solo. Meal prepping for the week. I made a beef/mushroom/green bean stew and a stuffed pepper skillet with lean ground beef and cauliflower in place of rice. Watching a hockey game now.

Well.
The package arrived but it is probably bad news for Lettucia!
Assuming Amazon keeps to their Jan 31 return promise I don't think she will be staying.

Don't get me wrong. For $22.34 inclusive of all taxes she really a far from terrible solution.

But I am fairly scale snooty and I do have rechargeable batteries and a fully (and well) functioning scale whose only current issue seems to be faster than expected battery drain. Which is annoying. But not impossible to deal with.

So here is an (unfair) quick comparison and review. Why unfair? Because on Dec 20, 21 when I bought the black OXO 5lb scale my final price was 46.62. Today she sells for $71.84 with taxes. While Lettucia arrived at the house on a Sunday for $22.34. So less than 1/3 the price!

OXO: capacity 5lbs precision 1g

Lettucia (ozeri z28 "graduation" = gradation technology with 0.1g precision below 420g, 1g above, and 13.22lb capacity

Physical:
Oxo is larger though still small and compact.
Oxo is more solid. Possibly TWICE as solid 430.5g vs 215g

Usability: Oxo has the pull out display. In the pictures, possibly due to focus, it looks terrible BUT, the OXO LIT LED display is WAY WAY WAY better. Note: direct sunlight not tested. So way easier to use and see the measurements on the OXO

Measurement: Lettucia DID search a little bit. And did "drift"/change her mind within a 1g range. Even though she stabilized after taring... I've only taken a couple of measurements and she has drifted/searched every time. By comparison OXO drifts incredibly infrequently. Note: everything was at room temp and I wasn't measuring hot or cold items.

Lettucia does go to higher weight 13.3lbs vs 5lbs. That's a BIG difference. She was not faster than the OXO but she was not appreciably slower other than when she started drifting.

I am seriously contemplating:
a) just sending her back and NOT getting anything or
b) getting the 11lb OXO to see if power off issue is fixed and acquire the 2.5 to 5kg upgrade.
I do believe that the 11lb is less "sensitive" than the 5lbs and, at "just" $89.59 at my door, it is just OVER FOUR TIMES Lettucia's price!

So yes, while I am not impressed with the smaller physical size and lighter, more toy-like, feel. The relative cost differences are immense. And the extra precision is of marginal/no benefit for weight-loss, whereas speed of measurement response may well be!

Sorry, the picture sequence is not in order. What happened in order was:

First I looked at the weight and relative size of the zk28. 215g. The chili peppers acted as a wall to make the back of the scales line up.

Then I looked at a tin of coffee with the OXO at the bottom and the ZK28 on top. Tin of coffee weights 161g (160.6g), so everyone is in agreement.

To see the non pull out display I used a handy can of soup as a riser. The pictures don't capture the weight of the can but show the measurement drift between 430.2g, 430.9g and 431.2g where the ZK28 is drifting a bit while measuring the weight of the OXO scale.

Then the tin is measured a second time (with the can of soup and the OXO on top) at 160.6 by the ZK28 (and again at 161g by the OXO). But then the ZK28 drifts to 160.7 in terms of what it is displaying.

In the pictures the backlit display shows marginal or negative improvement. IN real life it isn't even a close comparison. While the unlit LED is readable the backlit LED is EASILY readable.

Nic - you are a wonder! How are you feeling? (dumb question )

Hi all. Well, I froze some dough this weekend! My son is not excited. He said, "You're experimenting with Christmas cookies? Do you think that's wise?" Ha! He can't wait for baking day. By the way, he's 27.

Scared enough to wait until I return from Newfoundland before I order

YES - just booked a flight for 9 pm Christmas day. Didn't think I could do it - but no chemo coming up it seems ???? That is another terrifying story/thought but I"m not thinking about it other than - woohoo I can see The Boy who stepped out of camera and cried during our video chat when I told him I wouldn't be there during christmas. And elder son - and have Christmas day here with younger son! Writing this is making me cry....

Christmas in Newfoundland! With your grandson! What could be better Laurie? And you get to spend time with both sons. 🥰

I see PAV is still obsessing over his new scale. Methinks you’re a bit of a perfectionist. Me too. But as I get old I’ve finally come to accept nothing/no one will ever be perfect or up to my finicky standards. Learned to pick my battles. Sometimes good enough needs to be celebrated and enjoyed.

On the cookie front. I thought I was done. But I just picked up my car from the mechanics and a repair quote at $775 came in at $525. Those boys are getting some shortbread cookies tomorrow.

So this was a close call.

Was walking in the forest path. Something hit the bottom of my glasses. I shut my right eye and stopped. I pulled an inch long twig that was held in place between my shut eye lids, my glasses and my nose.

No visible scratches. Recently fallen tree extending into the path. Twigs at eye level.

I like glasses.

Indeed I am feeling pretty blessed, Yooly.

Sounds like PAV had a Christmas blessing too. Glad for your glasses our good man. We NEED your vision. Who else would keep us up to speed on counter scale technology and availability????? WHO I ask?

Nine more days of the fancy red wrist cast. 👹 It weighs a ton and is uncomfortable especially at night. I just can’t sleep well with my arm and hand trapped in a rigid, airless cast. It’s not my first experience with broken bones or casts but I just seem to be less tolerant. Trying to dress, shower or do simple tasks one handed results in shoulder pain. The removable brace will be a joy!

There - I have whined sufficiently.

I begin cookie baking on Thursday. Hubby will be helping with rolling out dough🫣 and moving cookie sheets in and out of the oven. He likes to cook but this will be an exercise in patience for him. 🥹

Hey Yooly - So I froze my dough and figured that I would take it out of the freezer the night before baking day. Is that what you do? Glad you are close to getting the cast off!

In a past century, I swear that I observed cookies cooking from frozen in a hot oven in just a few minutes.

The image even has a metal sheet and parchment paper.

Could be a dream... or direct from freezer to the oven experiment especially if it is a convection oven! 🤷‍♂️

I would experiment with a test batch! 😎🤔🫣

PAV8888 wrote: »

Lettucia is still around!

And the "unsettled" behavior is way less than before/almost non existent, which makes me suspect that I didn't wait long enough for the scale to come up to temperature after sitting at the doorstep all day. Sure, I waited a few hours but she was still in the (cardboard) shipping boxes....

Love the one you’re with PAV!