Food scale: 11 lbs or spring for the 22 lb version? What do you think? Video inside...

Really? I never knew that. How do they compensate for heavy bowls? heavier than the scale limits.

I'm gonna have to test this....

 
Sorry Marilyn, yes you are correct. I put a ceramic canister of flour on the scales that weighed

8 lbs and tared. I then added a 5 lb canister and it read error. I guess I'd never weighed anything that heavy before.

 
Edited...we weighed an 8 lb pot, tared and added 6 lbs. Got an error reading, but repeated it and

it read correctly, several times. We got the same reading whether we tared or put the pot on before turning on the scale. Very confusing. My scales are Salter, 11 lb. Anyone else experimented with this?

 
With my Salter scales, I press the on button, add the bowl, then press on button again. The reading

returns to zero. If I add an ingredient and press on again, it returns to zero so I can then add the next ingredient by weight and so on as needed. Does that make sense?

 
>Just when I think it's going to be the OXO I see this 1 that does % and conversions too - thoughts?

I mean if Cook's and even David L love the OXO could they be wrong? Then I see this and it blows everything up.

Clearly I know I'm not a bread baker (yet), so all this hydration stuff is above my paygrade, but I saw a thread on Chowhound discussing scales and several mentioned this brand and/or this scale because it does all the math for you as well and well...I am math challenged.

I'd like to of course buy the right thing the first time, so bread bakers/etc. what are your thoughts here?

The other thing is this is a 17+lb (so nice in the middle version of the oxo) and it costs less.

http://www.amazon.com/My-Weigh-Digital-Weighing-Scale/dp/B001NE0FU2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1265330174&sr=8-1

 
VERY cool! I don't suppose my postal scale does that, though...

If we hadn't just bought a new fridge, stove, microwave and hair dryer in the last 3 months, I might just ask for this for Christmas smileys/smile.gif

 
Want to add 300 grams of flour? Set to zero. Add flour to 300. Reset to zero. Add 450 grams of sugar

reset to zero. Add butter, add spices...add as much as you want to (according to process steps)...all in the same bowl without using measuring cups.

I LOVE TARE.

BUT I LOVE RECIPES THAT HAVE WEIGHTS EVEN MORE.

 
if the recipe doesn't give weights use the nutritional label to convert volume to weight

 
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