It also measures Troy ounces (ozt) and pennyweights (dwt), though you won’t find a use for those in the kitchen. We think the Ozeri Pronto Digital Multifunction Kitchen and Food Scale is a great choice if you want something that’s cheap but accurate. Take advantage of our experience, skills, and know-how to ensure optimal uptime, accurate performance, and compliance, and maximize your investment. But it’s nice to have the range in case you want to weigh a pork shoulder or a large batch of bread.

The OXO does offer a pull-out display, though, which is particularly helpful for reading measurements when you have, say, a mixing bowl placed on the scale.That extra precision comes at a cost to size and capacity, however, and most people don’t need it, since measuring spoons are accurate enough for baking.

In China, the earliest weighing balance excavated was from a tomb of the State of Chu of the Chinese Warring States Period dating back to the 3rd to 4th century BC in Mount Zuojiagong near Changsha, Hunan. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You should be able to tare repeatedly so that you can zero out the weight of whatever’s in the bowl and measure additional ingredients.We may give the newer version a chance in a future retest, but unless it’s markedly improved from its predecessors, you’re much better off sticking with one of our more accurate and less costly picks. Home Retail Group Card Services Limited is registered in England (04007072) at 33 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2HT. While in sleep mode, the scale retains the memory of what you last weighed until the 30-minute auto-shutoff point. My Weigh’s Kitchen Scale: This model was slower than the other scales we tested, taking longer to turn on. It’s pretty big—about the size of a pop-up toaster—but of all the scales we’ve tested, it has the highest weighing capacity at 17 pounds, 6 ounces.

But once you get there, you can choose an auto-off duration of two minutes, five minutes, or indefinitely. If you prefer extreme precision for tasks like brewing coffee, we recommend the American Weigh Scales LB-3000. In our accuracy tests using lab weights, the My Weigh KD8000 was accurate to the gram, though it occasionally had trouble reading a 1-gram weight—as did several other scales we tested.Some advanced models even offer multi-point calibration, allowing for higher accuracy over a broader range of weights. Apply a weighing filter if you are weighing unstable loads but you need to visualize a stable weight reading. It is useful if the weight of the container is known and you want to weight both recipient and product altogether. We also found it was ever so slightly slower, often requiring two seconds to read really small weights. Many glass scales also lack a raised platform, making them harder to read when used with a large bowl.