Polder Pocket Size Digital Scale
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Polder Pocket Size Digital Scale
Customer Review: Accurate enough, easy to use.
Summary: 5 Stars
This scale is great. I sometimes buy expensive ingredients in bulk and divvy them up to share with friends who are also foodies. Particularly if I have to travel for certain hard-to-come-by organic ingredients, I'll offer to get some for other people. Then comes the problem of dividing up a big sack of herbs or spices in proportion to what each person chipped in. The polder is really perfect for this kind of thing.
The scale allows you zero it for any amount under a pound so you can quickly take into account the weight of packaging, even if you are stuck using different types of containers. I checked it against some standard weights also, and it never varied significantly, though it sometimes won't recognize small weight changes as with powders. You can solve that by picking up the sack and setting it down again to obtain an accurate total.
Another handy feature is that you can switch between grams and ounces as measures just by pushing a button. The scale is also small and pretty durable, making it highly portable. For this price, a better scale is hard to find, even in specialty shops (many of which charge a premium for decent scales). I highly recommend it for keeping things fair and saving money.
Customer Review: Great Little Scale!
Summary: 5 Stars
I needed a scale when I recently had to start home cooking a specially prescribed diet for my dog. The ingredients had to be measured in grams and fractions of a gram. After spending much time researching scales, this one had all the features I was looking for.
The scale is small in size but big enough for me to put a small plastic bowl on the tray for weighing the bulkier ingredients like the chicken or rice. It is accurate, literally right down to a grain of rice or a drop of oil. Because of its compact size it fits right in the cupboard and takes no room at all. It also measures in ounces at the push of a button should I want to do that with something else. I wear glasses for close-up reading; however, the digital numbers on the scale are large enough for me to read minus my glasses with no difficulty. The price is very reasonable and the shipping was fast. One of the soft plastic crescent shaped grippers did come off after I used the scale a couple of times, but I was able to stick it back on.
I highly recommend this Polder Pocket Size Digital Scale.
Customer Review: Seems good, slight defect
Summary: 4 Stars
The design is nice. I weighed several coins and they seemed to register very well. I checked standard weights from the mint. Some were slightly lighter or slightly heavier. They were within one decigram of standard (1/10th gram). These were circulating coins, from different years and could have changed weight from use, or perhaps they are within mint tolerances. It seemed quite accurate. Possibly it was spot on, if I'd had perfect test weights.
Unfortunately my scale had a little defect (that is why I knocked it down one star). On the lid/tray, there are two rubber strips with little nubs that fit into holes in the scale platform. The strips center and stabilize the lid when you flip it over to use as the weighing tray. One strip was missing on mine. I'm exchanging it with Amazon. I still want it, so I'm looking forward to the new one.
It includes the two button cell batteries also.
Customer Review: Best Scale for weighing food and monitoring calories
Summary: 5 Stars
The Polder 932-00 Pocket Size Digital Scale is great for monitoring the calories you eat. I have purchased other scales and returned them because they are not accurate in the ounce range and are too big. The Polder is very accurate and very easy to use. It uses the units of grams and ounces. These units match all ingredient labels on food. The tare feature allows me to weigh more items at the same time. I always use the tray for weighing food since it is so easy to wash. The best part is that I can weigh my food after it is cooked. This allows me to eat more food since food shrinks on cooking. The scale's tray is also a cover for the scale. I have taken it on trips, and it works well. The only shortfall is that the scale is very efficient and turns itself off sometimes before I am done. Now that I know this, I work around it. I also purchased another one for my daughter.
Customer Review: When you need to weigh very small amounts (<1 lb.)
Summary: 4 Stars
A nice little product, well designed. You can put a container on first, reset to zero, then add content to the container and get weight only for the contents and not the container. Cool. It's attractive, too, and I think it's fairly priced.
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The only reason I didn't give it five stars is that the little moon-shaped pads, in the lid that doubles as a tray for weighing, came off immediately because they were not securely glued on. I can re-glue them so it's not a big problem and certainly doesn't interfere with the functioning of the scale, but it demotes the product by one star. 8=)