Escali Pana V136, Volume Measuring Scale
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: EscaliBrand: Escali
Model: V63
Color: Stainless
Product features:
- Lifetime warranty; Volume measurements in cups and tablespoons as well as ounces, pounds, and grams
- 13-pound capacity; 1/8-cup, ½-tablespoon, 0.1-ounce or 1-gram increments
- Preprogrammed with more than 500 ingredients measured in cups and tablespoons
- Tare feature; automatic shut-off; removable stainless-steel plate
- 9 by 8 by 2 inches; 1 9V battery included; laminated ingredient code list included
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Escali Pana V136, Volume Measuring Scale
Customer Review: Obsolete user interface
Summary: 1 Stars
To those who own this scale and are happy with it, I mean no offense. I hope you will understand that this is intended as constructive criticism of a product which has potential, but badly needs to be updated and improved.
To those who have not yet jumped off of that cliff, think twice about the dubious return on investment that this poorly implemented device represents. The lack of a user friendly interface, and the failure to provide a text labeled ingredient database, make this product an unwieldy anachronism. Here is what I mean:
What is simpler, remembering what a cup of flour weighs, or remembering a cryptic numeric code you have to punch into the scale to measure flour?
What is easier, looking up the weight of an ingredient, or looking up an abstract numeric code ?
If you remember the numeric code for an ingredient, you can only measure the volume on this expensive special scale.
If you remember the unit weight of an ingredient, you can measure the volume on ANY scale, even the $24 model, or your next door neighbor's scale, or mom's old mechanical scale.
If you have an inexpensive scale you can determine the volume of an ingredient just by weighing it.
If you have this expensive scale you can determine the volume of an ingredient by looking around to find your special laminated card, looking up the secret code (if it is on the list of approved ingredients), entering the code into the scale, and THEN weighing it.
Unless the manufacturer updates this scale to allow predictive entry of ingredient names, user defined ingredients, conversion table updates, and a generally more modern user interface, I would suggest you save some money and buy the cheap scale. You can easily find a weight to volume conversion chart on the Internet, print it out, laminate it, and save yourself from spending three times as much money as you should have, to get a convenience feature which really isn't all that convenient. (You can use that chart you made with ANY scale !)
I really hope that the manufacturer will get a clue and update this scale to current levels of user interface technology. This would have been a great product in the mid-1980's, but given the current state of the art, it is a sad failure.
Description of Escali Pana V136, Volume Measuring Scale
Escali introduces the Pana Scale -- the first home kitchen scale to provide accurate volume measurements in cups and tablespoons. This patent-pending scale also offers a user-friendly display option incorporating fractions.Scales
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