OXO Good Grips Stainless Food Scale with Pull-Out Display
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips Stainless Food Scale with Pull-Out Display
Customer Review: Wonderful Scale
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading Amazon and other website reviews, I picked this scale over the Escali Primo food scale. This one is more expensive, but people did not report having issues with the battery cover or thinking that this product looked cheap - which were things said about the Escali.
So far it works great - I weighed a nickel (specified to weigh 5 kg by the U.S. Mint), and with a small number of trials, somewhere between 80-85% of the trials reported 5 kg (the other times it showed up as 4kg). I feel like given more trials (hundreds of them), the percentage of times it'd show up accurately would be around 95% or more. I'm obviously using it for more than weighing nickels, and it's doing a good job!
It has a wonderful design - and intuitive display that permits tarring (zeroing the scale), a backlight for night use, and a button to toggle between g/kg and oz/lbs. The pull-out display is an awesome feature. Battery cover solid. Includes batteries. Looks nice in my kitchen.
Amazon sent me a scale with the display buttons upside-down - but this was a manufacturer's defect. They were good about the return, and even credited me for the money I had to spend on a packing envelope in which to return the item. I ended up buying the item at Williams Sonoma, which has it for the same price.
Recommended buy.
Customer Review: Best scale ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've baked and cooked for years, always using a scale for accuracy, never realizing that my scales weren't so great. I now work in a bakery, and this is the scale used there. The best part of the scale is that the front pulls out on a cord about eight inches long. How many times have you put a big bowl or pan on your scale and it overshadowed the display, preventing you from seeing it? Not a problem. I've put some pretty huge bowls on the one at work, and with the display pulled out, it's no problem. It has a tare function that most scales have, it does grams and ounces, and has a sensor to let you know if you're reaching the maximum weight. None of the ads say so, but it seems to have a memory as well. Lots of times I've taken too long to get something weighed and the scale cuts off to save the battery (takes a while, it doesn't shut off right away) and when I hit the power button, it comes back on displaying the weight that was on it. I don't have the manual for the work one, so I don't know for sure, and since this is a Christmas gift, techinically, it's not mine... yet! Once I can get into it, I will read up and find out if it does have a memory or if it's a fluke. Oh, it also comes with batteries.
BB&B has this same scale for 49.99, so even with their 20% off coupons, this one is a better price with no tax.
Customer Review: Doesn't display 00.00 lbs
Summary: 2 Stars
The quality and pullout feature are nice but a HUGE negative is that it can't display pounds or ounces in decimals. Every piece of meat/produce you buy at the store is labeled with decimals so like many people, I've gotten used to knowing how many pounds of a certain food I want to eat like 0.7lbs of steak or 0.3lbs of stir fry meat or 0.2lbs of deli meat. But when you get home, you can't weigh it the same way with this scale. You end up with a reading of something incomprehensible like 3 5/8 ounces. Huh?
Another example is let's say you buy 1.2lbs of meat and want to divide it into thirds at home. I cut up the meat and plop it on the scale to measure 0.4lbs but I can't. So either I have to get out my calculator to multiply 0.4*16 or I have to remeasure the entire meat in grams then divide by 3. What a pain.
The fractional ounce system is horribly inefficient so the more we can move away from that the better. This scale doesn't promote the advancement of our society.
UPDATE: I have since replaced the Oxo with the Eatsmart Precision Pro Scale which does display pounds or ounces in decimals. The Oxo has better construction quality but the Eatsmart is more usable in my opinion.
Customer Review: I wouldn't change a thing about it
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a perfectly constructed kitchen scale that is a powerhouse in the kitchen. I started measuring for baking when I bought the King Arthur Whole Grains Cookbook (amazing, by the way), and they recommended it, and also list weights next to all of their recipes. It is a heck of a lot more accurate than measuring, and it also creates a lot less dishes as you don't have to use measuring cups (I still use measuring spoons). This one works well. It is super easy to wipe off; despite my daily use, it remains clean and new looking. It is very easy to read with large numbers. It seems to be accurate and it measures down to 1/8 of an ounce which is often necessary. It has a nice night light that I use on occasion. The screen pulls out to be read at any angle or underneath any size bowl if necessary. It has occasionally turned itself off automatically and NOT gone back to what it previously measured, which was annoying, but that hasn't happened recently.
If you aren't measuring things now, and don't have a cookbook that lists measurements, it might be a bit of work to look all of that up online and make a chart of how much flour, butter, sugar, etc should weigh, but I plan on doing that eventually with all of my cookbooks so that I can just measure everything.
Customer Review: Solves so many problems!
Summary: 5 Stars
1. Backlight - I didn't think I would use this but I have several times.
2. Smooth buttons - easy to clean.
3. The weighing plate comes off, so it's easy to clean too.
4. It remembers the weight even when it turns off. I used to compulsively press on the bowl or whatever was on my old scale, to keep the scale active to make sure it didn't turn off. No more!
5. On/Off button. This isn't why I bought it by any means, but it is nice when I'm just weighing one thing really quickly, and I don't have to drain the battery life waiting for it to turn off automatically.
6. Pretty high capacity - some food scales only hold 5 pounds or so. I often use mine to get equal servings out of a big pot of soup, for example. With this scale I can put the whole pot on there, subtract the weight of the pot, and then easily ladle out equal portions.
7. This is the reason I bought this scale, only to discover several other great features. With my old scale, weighing a plate or a big pot was really difficult, because the big size of it covered the display. I had to crouch down and use a flashlight to try to see what the weight was. This feature totally solves that problem.