Taylor Digital Kitchen Food Scale with Silver Top - 11 lb Max Capacity

I’m a mechanical engineer and have extensively used various laboratory and industrial scales. Importantly, I’ve also used a decades-old kitchen scale daily at home, but its pushbuttons started giving out. I had three prerequisites while weeding out other scales from consideration: 1) My new kitchen scale had to take either AA or AAA batteries (no specialty batteries like coin cells), and 2) It had to have a non-backlit LCD display. Non-backlit LCDs consume exceedingly little power so you aren’t frequently replacing batteries. 3) It had to have liquid-tight membrane pushbuttons (no gaps for spilled liquids to seep inside). Who wants to think about batteries and power adapters all the time in return for having an illuminated display? My Taylor Glass Top Food Scale consumes only four milliamps (see photo) when turned on, so one pair of AAA alkaline will last for 250 hours of continuous operation; if you use this scale so it is powered “ON” for an average of 13½ minutes per day, seven days a week, its batteries will last THREE YEARS before needing to be replaced. What is also outstanding about the Taylor Glass Top Food Scale is that its internal weight sensor (a “load cell”) appears to be very high-quality. Taylor’s programmers consequently didn’t have to resort to software tricks to make the scale “appear” to have rock-stable readings. Scales that rely on software-faked stabilization can seem to stubbornly lock onto a value while you are slowly trickling in the last gram or two; it will suddenly skip ahead a gram, jumping past the value you were aiming for. The tradeoff to not using artificial software stabilization is that imperceptible breezes can cause this scale to oscillate between two readings, like, “27 – 28 – 27…”. But that’s fine, especially when doing non-food activities like mixing small amounts of pigments or critical-ratio epoxies. The Taylor Glass Top Food Scale also excels in its lack of display reading lag. It appears that it does an outstanding job of calculating the “rate of change” as you add ingredients, which enables it to use predictive “look ahead” so the displayed value is real-time “now.” This means you can rapidly pour ingredients and abruptly stop without annoying scale lag, causing you to overshoot your target value. It's a simple feature that saves time and effort in the kitchen. See the video for more, including the glass top, which is nice, and the membrane-type pushbuttons, which are very handy in spill-prone kitchens. ___________________________________ PS (made months later): I’ve been using this for close to seven months now, like this scale even more, and should mention something I didn’t initially notice. This scale gives rock-stable readings irregardless of where, exactly, you place a bowl or plate on the platen. This is a hallmark of a quality load cell design. You can precisely center a large dinner plate (overhanging the digital display) and move the plate towards the back—or even one of the corners—and the reading won’t change a single gram. Nice.

Love this food scale! It is the perfect size and easy to use. It is actually stylish and I don’t mind keeping it out on my counter.

I really like this scale. Super easy to use. The weight is repeatable and appears to be very accurate. It is a good size, fits the items I want to weigh without taking up to much space. Only thing to be aware of, and I was so I don't count it as a negative, the display needs to have some light on it for easy readability as the display is not backlit. It will not work well in a dark area.

HOw did I survive without this?!?! I bought it for making sourdough, but have used it for many other things. IT is a wonderful little scale. I have had it for 6 months now and not had any problems. I would buy again.

The scale is okay but it's actually kind of annoying that it can't measure less than 1 gram. My other scale measures fractions of a gram.

Started making sourdough bread. This scale is so easy to use. It’s very accurate and light weight. Display is easy to read and the battery life is excellent.

Works perfectly for my homemade sourdough starter feedings! Also use for other recipes now since it’s a lot easier to measure out in the scale then to have to wash a thousand measuring cups.

Excellent scale. Easy to use. Cleaning is a breeze since its glass. Use it primarily for bread making.

Su tamaño es ideal porque no ocupa mucho espacio, y es muy precisa en cuanto al peso, es de gran ayuda cuando para pesar los ingredientes más cuando te dedicas a la repostería