How to Pick a Good Digital Food Scale for Your Kitchen
A digital food scale in your kitchen is very important for anyone who wants to eat healthy. It helps by ensuring you are using proper portion sizes and makes food planning so much easier.
Make sure you get a scale that fits all your needs. These are the most important thing to look for in a digital kitchen scale.
- CAPACITY - It is important that a digital food scale be able to take at least 10 pounds or 5kg because most bowls or cups can weight close to 4 pounds with out food in them.
- PRECISION - It is mportant that your digital food scale be able to weigh food down to the gram. Some scales only give you a reading with an error margin of 5 grams. This isnt good especially for chefs. being able to measure down to the gram is very important.
- STABLE PLATFORM - When weighing bulky items it is important that the platform is stable enough to support the items you wish to weigh without compromising durability.
- STANDARD BATTERIES -- Look for a digital kitchen scale that uses standard batteries like AA , AAA or C, D or better yet ... an a/c plug (no batteries). It is not fun when your food scale requires some over priced specialized battery that is not sold in regular stores. These special batteries are often difficult to find and very expensive to replace.
- PRICE -- I think $20 - $40 is good enough for a food scale anything about $40 is outrageous ... weighing food is not rocket science. Read the labels carefully and see f you really need extra features. You will most likely never use them.
- FEATURES -- The most important features you need in a kitchen scale are Zero the scale, read negative numbers, ablity to switch between English and metric and to tare a bowl. Any features beyond that are practically useless and cause confusion and inaccurate readings.
- EASY TO READ LCD -- I like a scale with big numbers that are easy to read. Another reason to avoind too many fetaures it makes getting a clear instant reading off the LCD difficult
- RUBBER FEET - this will prevent the machine from sliding across your kitche counter and spilling your food.