Digital Kitchen Scale Recommendations ?

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bmcky said:

Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

If you have a Bed, Bath, and Beyond or Linens 'n Things, go in and look
at the various scales. Features that are useful are a flat surface so
you can put a plate on it; a tare function, so you can reset the weight
to 0 after you put the plate on it; switchable ounce and gram
measurements. I bought mine 6 or 7 years ago, and it's still going
strong. I only wish it measured in 1 gr rather than 2 gr increments, but
that's not enough of a drawback for me to consider replacing it.

--
AF
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Well, a postal type scale is good enough to do the job. I used one like
that for many months, which I bought on eBay for about $30. However, some
months ago I invested in two digital scales with better readability. One
weighs up to 500 grams to .01 gram. I use it for measuring things like
freeze dried coffee, or powdered L-Glutamine. I leave this scale set to
grams. My second scale reads to 3000 grams with a readability of .1 gram.
This is large enough to handle a very large bowl of food. I leave this 2nd
scale set to ounces, and it can read to an accuracy of a little better than
1/100th of an ounce. Fitday accepts numbers with two significant figures
after the decimal point. I bought these two scales through eBay too. One
was a little over $100, and the other was around $150.

I have great fun with my new scales.

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Quoted message said:

Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

Just bought a Hanson "Gourmet" from Robert Dias; £9.99 (needs 9v battery).
Has a 5kgx1g (11lbx1/8oz) display, tare function, flat platform and plastic
weighing jug. Also has a count down timer. Footprint about 62x8". Used it
already - neat.

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Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

Sorry - just seen you are in US

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foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Just bought a Hanson "Gourmet" from Robert Dias; £9.99 (needs 9v battery).
Has a 5kgx1g (11lbx1/8oz) display, tare function, flat platform and

plastic

Quoted message said:

weighing jug. Also has a count down timer. Footprint about 62x8". Used it
already - neat.

--
Delboy

A common mistake that people made when trying to design something

completely

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foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

bmcky said:

Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

Hi Alice, Cubit & Delboy -

Yikes ! Quick replies all around, thanks. Here's a link for something
I'm thinking of getting, its at:

http://www.lnt.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1849160&cp=1903548&parentPage=family

It has a feature that calculates food values of what's being weighed,
and that's why I'm considering it. I've seen some absolutely
nifty-looking other scales that are cheaper, but I like the extra
utility of this one. I'm not locked into it yet, just soliciting
opinions pro or con.

Alice - thanks for the links.

bmcky

Boston, MA

I've had this one for more than a year and I am very satisfied with it.

Rich

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Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

I've got an Escali digital scale (www.escali.com). While I'm very
satisfied with the product, if I could do it again, I'd get a bigger
one so I could see the display (currently, it's often blocked by the
plate).

I got their Belecco 6.6lb postal scale (accurate to 0.5g) but you
probably should be looking at the larger kitchen scales. Just make
sure that whatever you get is accurate to 1g or less and has a "tare"
button.

It looks cool, but check out Fitday first. You might not need the features
in the scale. I suspect that programming the scale to give nutritional
readouts would be time consuming. It would have to know what foods you are
weighing, and there are only so many buttons to do that.

http://www.FitDay.com

I have no connection to Fitday, except as a download customer.

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bmcky said:

Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

Hi Alice, Cubit & Delboy -

Yikes ! Quick replies all around, thanks. Here's a link for something
I'm thinking of getting, its at:

http://www.lnt.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1849160&cp=1903548&parentPage=family

Quoted message said:

It has a feature that calculates food values of what's being weighed,
and that's why I'm considering it. I've seen some absolutely
nifty-looking other scales that are cheaper, but I like the extra
utility of this one. I'm not locked into it yet, just soliciting
opinions pro or con.

Alice - thanks for the links.

bmcky

Boston, MA

I agree with Cubit....this scale has many features that are viturally
useless to someone who really wants to track food/nutrient intake.

Cubit <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> It looks cool, but check out Fitday first. You might not need the
:> features
:> in the scale. I suspect that programming the scale to give
:> nutritional
:> readouts would be time consuming. It would have to know what foods
:> you are weighing, and there are only so many buttons to do that.
:>
:> http://www.FitDay.com
:>
:> I have no connection to Fitday, except as a download customer.
:>
:>
:>
:> "bmcky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:> news:[email hidden]...
:>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:11:44 -0400, bmcky
:>> <[email hidden]> wrote:
:>>
:>> >Hi -
:>> >
:>> >I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something
:>> >better
:>> >than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm
:>> >wondering if
:>> >people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
:>> >them? Thanks
:>> >
:>> >bmcky
:>> >
:>> >Boston, MA
:>>
:>> Hi Alice, Cubit & Delboy -
:>>
:>> Yikes ! Quick replies all around, thanks. Here's a link for
:>> something
:>> I'm thinking of getting, its at:
:>>
:>>
:>
http://www.lnt.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1849160&cp=1903548&parentPage=family
:>>
:>> It has a feature that calculates food values of what's being
:>> weighed,
:>> and that's why I'm considering it. I've seen some absolutely
:>> nifty-looking other scales that are cheaper, but I like the extra
:>> utility of this one. I'm not locked into it yet, just soliciting
:>> opinions pro or con.
:>>
:>> Alice - thanks for the links.
:>>
:>> bmcky
:>>
:>> Boston, MA

In a previous article said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

bmcky said:

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

If you have a Bed, Bath, and Beyond or Linens 'n Things, go in and look
at the various scales. Features that are useful are a flat surface so
you can put a plate on it; a tare function, so you can reset the weight
to 0 after you put the plate on it; switchable ounce and gram
measurements. I bought mine 6 or 7 years ago, and it's still going
strong. I only wish it measured in 1 gr rather than 2 gr increments, but
that's not enough of a drawback for me to consider replacing it.

I got mine from Digital Scales Direct, 18 months ago, when it was an
eBay store. It's no longer on eBay, but you can find them at
digitalscalesdirect.com. They have a *dizzying* array of scales, no
foolin'; I got an Escali that weighs to the nearest 0.5 g. I paid
about 50 bucks for mine, but they have some that are cheaper. (No
decent scale is going to be really cheap, though. You want precision,
you pay for it.)

They even have pocket scales that you can take with you.

I'm not connected with these folks in any way, just a customer.

Vicki
--
Of all the stupid things I've done, this is certainly the most recent.
- Chris Clarke

Search on Amazon - I have one similar but much cheaper that works
great. The brand is Cibo and I think I paid more like $39 for it.

Jennifer
267/163/150

Well, duh, I bet this would have been more helpful if I actually posted the
link

http://balance.balances.com/scales/460/

Rich

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I've had this one for more than a year and I am very satisfied with it.

Rich

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Quoted message said:

Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

bmcky said:

Hi -

I'm going to need some kind of kitchen scale and want something better
than the little mechanical postal scales at Staples. I'm wondering if
people here in this group have any recommendations or advisories on
them? Thanks

bmcky

Boston, MA

Update -

I ended up buying the Salter Model #1400 thinking that would be easier
to track my food intake values. Thanks for the suggestions, opinions
and ideas.

bmcky

(almost ready for induction)

Boston, MA