Does anyone use a digital nutritional scale?

[shaun-in-to]

I've been wondering about getting one -- as a type 1 diabetic, I count carbos -- but I'm not sure how extensive the database is, or if the cost is even worth it. Does anyone have any experience? Thanks.

 

[marilynfl]

Shaun, I did a bit of research on this last year. I was looking for ONE scale

that gave me nutritional information AND was easy to switch between lb/ounces and grams AND could take up to 10 lbs of ingredients. I'm trying to convert over my recipes to weight/volume rather than measuring out everything.

I never did find it last year. So I just went with a good scale for weighting things...no nutritional info. Still a little bummed that I caved before finding exactly what I wanted.

If you look at Amazon and epinion.com, you can read customer opinions regarding each scale option you find (Escali, Salter, etc).

Here is a link to where I bought my scale. The site was recommended by "cookingforengineers.com"
Good prices, I think.

I also linked the post on "kitchen scales" from cooking for engineers. Love that site.

http://www.oldwillknottscales.com/index.asp?PageAction=PRODSEARCH&txtSearch=nutritional&Page=1

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article.php?id=82

 

[Marg CDN]

Shaun, you could ask the diabetes society if they can recommend one. There is a good website also,

that calculates really quickly for you. You probably already access that, though.