Kitchen scales

We have quite cheap electric ones, Salter make. The good thing is that you can weigh in a bowl, recalibrate to 0 and add the next ingredient.

My almost 60 year old set of scales you can recalibrate as well. And has 2 large bowls. Belonged to my mum. Sadly only Imperial measurements. Couldn't bear to get rid of them, but no room for them and a new set.

Hope you get some good ideas OP. Nice to get a really useful Christmas present you want.

Same as you J52. I find them really useful, plus you can set them to metric or imperial which is helpful for weighing from old or new recipes.

Thumbs up for Salter as well

Mine are from Asda, easy to use imperial and metric, I’ve had them a couple of years.
I would love an old fashioned set.

I’ve got Salter battery operated ones. Choice of weight and fluid measurement etc BUT I don’t think they are particularly accurate TBH. Although I guess it doesn’t matter providing I only ever use that one and don’t mix up with my other one or the Tala conical measure I’ve got.

I have an old fashioned set of salter scales. A tray across the top and two rails underneath, one or lbs , one for ounces.

I know all the conversions for imperial to metric, so can do those in my head to work out the appropriate imperial wight for any given metric rate, and much the same if I want to accumulate ingredients on the tray.

I just like the scales, they are a colour that matches my kitchen and are not very tall, only a few inches.

I have electronic scales, however, since finding a measuring cone in a little kitchen shop, I don't use them as much as I did.
This cone is so useful, it has both English and American cups as well as measurements for dry goods.

I have Salter too from Argos. The scales can be stored inside the stainless steel bowl.

Salter Stainless Steel Digital Kitchen Scale with Bowl 787/9193
£15.00

just got Salter rechargeable. Work really well, slim and easy to tidy away

J52

We have quite cheap electric ones, Salter make. The good thing is that you can weigh in a bowl, recalibrate to 0 and add the next ingredient.

You will be very surprised to hear that I have the same ones.

They are really good.

MiniMoon

I have electronic scales, however, since finding a measuring cone in a little kitchen shop, I don't use them as much as I did.
This cone is so useful, it has both English and American cups as well as measurements for dry goods.

I was given one of those as an engagement present, wayyyy back in the day. I kept it for years, but have no idea when or where it went.

kittylester

J52

We have quite cheap electric ones, Salter make. The good thing is that you can weigh in a bowl, recalibrate to 0 and add the next ingredient.

You will be very surprised to hear that I have the same ones.

They are really good.

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I've had all types but find the most useful are the electronic ones that you can take back to zero to add more ingredients. They all seem pretty accurate, regardless of price - I used to check a new set out with an old set of weights and they were fine.
I'd simply make sure that you can get one with a decent sized platform so that you can read the numbers when you have a bowl on there.
I think that some of the older types relied on springs which do not always age well, although the types with weights are obviously always reliable.

I've had my Salter digital scales for years, no bowl so I can use any suitable one and zero each time I want to add another ingredient. They are also very easy to store in a cupboard.

£10.00 from Dunelm!

I've had all sort of different kitchen scales but the old fashioned balance scales with brass weights is the only one I use now. Inherited from my grandmother it has brass weights that range from 2lb to quarter of an ounce and are the most accurate I've ever had.

We have digital electronic scales that can weigh in metric or imperial, dry or liquid measures. You can also recalibrate to zero so that you can put a mixing bowl on the s cales, zero it, then weigh successive ingredients as you add them, returning to zero each time. Which sounds far more complicated than it is; just a button press. It's about the size of a paperback so easy to store.
They cost about £15 and the battery lasts years.

My digital scale was about £10 from a supermarket many years ago and lives on the worktop as I use it daily, I much prefer it to the big old thing in the back of the cupboard.

Just bought some from John Lewis,£10.Very pleased with them.

I love the kitchen scales (in black to match my kitchen), I got in a charity shop for £4. No batteries, no electronics. just a simple balance weighing, showing both lbs and ounces. and metric. Bowl turns upside down as a lid. Yes, I can recalibrate it by moving a small lever. so can use it with other bowls, etc. So simple, no worrying about battery running out, etc.

You are supposed to be able to recalibrate digital scales, and indeed you can, but in my experience it is not the one-touch affair people say. Often I become so exsaperated trying to do so, that I get out my old scales and weights instead.

MiniMoon

I have electronic scales, however, since finding a measuring cone in a little kitchen shop, I don't use them as much as I did.
This cone is so useful, it has both English and American cups as well as measurements for dry goods.

Now I like that idea - ie the measuring cone.

Will check that out - though I basically use American measurements - ie because a lot of the recipes I use are American and I find that handy (as nothing much can go wrong with cup measurements and it just feels like an easy way to measure things to me).

I think Tala sell a measuring cone. I had one years ago but the measurements disappeared and it got bashed.