10kgx0.5g Digital Food Diet Kitchen Scale, Postal, Office, 22lbs Capacity

I have had this scale for nearly 8 years. It works great. Here is what I have found: buy a clear label and immediately put it over the window and buttons. If I had done that to start with I wouldn't have worn a hole in the paper label covering the buttons! PCS is the only intact label I have left. I put round pieces of sticky paper over them when they wore through. If the manufacturer would just make a better label or cover it with a clear second label this would never be an issue. Next, the battery cover broke, so I have it duct taped on. Still works great. Also, if you plan to use it for caustic substances like I have, I recommend covering the whole thing by either keeping it in a zip lock bag or covering it in plastic wrap. I have used mine for soap making. It is very accurate and I love that it doesn't time out and shut off! I have other scales that do that to me and it really messes things up. The batteries last a long time too. All in all a great value for the money! If you plan to use it in the kitchen I still recommend covering the window and buttons with a clear label. It will last so much longer. The plastic can't handle acids and will become pitted and you won't be able to read through the window if you don't cover it. Mine is well used and still works great! I wrote the manufacturer several years ago and asked for a new label. They laughed at me! Oh well.......

I am entirely content with this purchase but bear in mind that I have had it just at week. On the plus side, it is compact, (reasonably) accurate and will weigh up to 10kg (22 lbs) in half-gram or fractional ounce increments. It uses 2 AA batteries instead of the AAAs most other units take which says to me that I'll have to replace them less often. It appears to work just as well with rechargeables (Eneloops, anyway) without giving an immediate loBat indication.On the down side... • It's plastic and looks it. • There is no warranty. • The weighing tray is not removable for cleaning. • The auto-off function doesn't work (accidentally left it on for over 2 hours), though it does shut off the LCD back light (rather too quickly for my taste) in 5-15 secs.). The back light will remain on if the weight changes, so you just have to tap the platform to get it back on. This also means that, if the weight is right on the edge of two values and it fluctuates back and forth, it would stay on forever. • The compact size is a disadvantage if you try to use a dinner plate as a container or are weighing a large package: Either will make viewing the display extremely difficult. • Nowhere in the 1-sheet manual does it explain what the 'tl' unit of measurement is. (Some quick research indicates that it probably means 'tola' --- 1 tola = 3/8 troy ounce.) • As for accuracy, three brand-new U.S. nickels (which should total exactly 15 grams) register as 14.5, 15, or 15.5 g, in successive tests. A ten-pound weight registered 10.317 pounds. These measurements fall outside the claimed accuracy but are certainly adequate for my needs.Note that this scale is made in China and is entirely generic, so it may be available under any number of different brand names. There is nothing printed on the manual, the scale or the box they came in, to indicate a manufacturer; only a sticker affixed to the box states that this is SlimWise.*** After two months, I've knocked the review down one star. I've discovered a surprising and undesirable trait --- at least in my particular sample --- that I would call "weight creep" (or, more accurately, "tare creep". I find that the longer I leave an item on the scale, the heavier it appears to become. An item that weighed 64 grams, initially, registers 66 grams two minutes later. Just to test, I left an item on the scale for nearly two hours (which is possible because my scale does not shut itself off). When I began, a can of tuna weighed 216.5g but, by the end of the test, the scale showed 244.0g. When I removed the can, rather than reading zero, the scale showed 37.5g (hence, "tare creep"). This shouldn't be a big problem for someone who uses the scale to quickly weigh something and be done with it but, if you walk away from the scale for a minute or two, you'll find that you appear to have more of whatever you were weighing than you did originally.

I am happy with this, and recommend it. The scale is easy to use. It can set a tare on power-up (shows zero with whatever container you put on it), or you can use the tare feature to re-zero at any time. I use it for cooking and brewing beer. It doesn't sit quite flat: it has four feet, and rocks about a sixteenth of an inch. I verified that this has no effect on the reading, so it is just cosmetic. If I really cared, I could shim up one of the pads. It can't really weigh a half gram all by itself, but it can resolve a half gram in larger items. For instance, I split my yeast packets, which are 11 grams. I can weigh each half packet (5.5 grams plus half of the packet weight if I do it right), but I can't weigh a half gram of empty foil. This is a minor nit-pick.The automatic power-down feature is a mixed blessing. If the weight keeps changing (e.g. you are adding material to get to your desired weight), it will stay on. If you have to stop and do something, though, it will power off after 60 seconds of no weight change or user input. This could be inconvenient if you have a tare set, and are interrupted while in the middle of weighing something. This is easily accommodated by writing down the tare weight before hitting the tare button.

This is the third scale I've used for meal prep, and it is by far the best in every way.Pros:Incredibly responsive! The split second even the tiniest amount of food touches the surface it starts updating the weight. The problem I've had with every other scale is that if you put too small amounts, it will never update, such as pouring honey into a bowl, you'd pour several tbsps before it even knew anything was happening, whereas this scale doesn't waste any time!Most accurate I've found! Accurate to within a half a gram, which is arguable completely unnecessary, but great!Cons:The plastic cover over the buttons and display is paper thin and I can tell if I grab the device incorrectly I could poke my finger through it.

This scale weighs in both metric and in the King's non-metric measures, so you can travel anywhere in the world with this and not be out of place. This works great in the kitchen for making perfectly proportioned cookies and great in the lab when meeting with unscrupulous characters. You won't have any regrets about buying this, unless you suddenly find religion and decide to quit baking cookies. If you are on the edge of a rebirth, think twice before clicking that Buy button. If you are committed to your degenerate lifestyle, pay no heed to this warning and weigh away!