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: Pricey, but easy to use, easy to store and easy to read. Love this scale!
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently I won a gift certificate to a store where I was able to pick this item up for free. If I hadn't I'm not sure I would have forked over $50 for a food scale. However, the timing was right to pick it up because I was just looking into learning how to make better cakes, cupcakes and other baked goods and had learned the importance of weighing flour versus the use of measuring cups. I am very happy to have the scale and have already made great use of it for making cupcakes and for weighing meat bought in bulk and separated for freezing.
I love that you can zero out the scale as you go along which allows you to put your bowl on it, zero it out, add one dry ingredient, zero out again, add more, etc. I don't have to add measurements together to get an accrued total weight.
The read out is large but not overly large. The buttons are basic and easy to use. The design overall is very slim and makes it easy to store on it's side in my cabinet. Finally, I love that the display pulls out for the times when your bowl is larger than the scale. You can pull the display out and continue zeroing out and adding ingredients as needed and still see exactly where you are at with the weight.
Overall it is a great design and a great product. I have a hard time understanding why a scale would cost $50 but regardless, if you are looking for a GOOD scale this is a great one and really is worth the money.
Customer Review: Smart thinking by OXO!
Summary: 5 Stars
Works as advertised. Measurements are precise.
Smart ideas:
1. Back light can be turned on if you need it. That way you do not run down the battery if the light is not needed. Good feature if there is a glare or you need to see the display from a distance.
2. Obviously, the pull out display. I wasn't sure if this was a needed feature, but once I put a dinner plate on the scale it was well worth it. Display pulls out from scale easy and fits back on scale nice and snug.
3. Zeroing option or tare feature.
4. You can switch between weights with the touch of a button. No turning on and off to reset.
5. Scale will go into a sleep mode after 3 minutes, but retains all measurements. Simply push a button to wake it up and keep working. Auto shut off after 45 minutes.
6. Easy to clean. Scale plate comes off.
7. Can store almost anywhere with the slim build.
The only thing people might find a problem with is cost. It does cost a little more than some other scales, but I would recommend it for the features I listed above that the other scales do not have or do not perform as well. You can always justify not needing a certain feature or paying a little more. But it sure is nice having a scale that works great and does everything you need.
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: 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.