Kitchen Scales advice

[Hogsy]

I've been looking for some kitchen scales and was wondering what everyone else uses
There's plenty of digital models on eBay , but unsure what brands are good and what's not
I'm after a set that measure down to 1-2 grams and up to 5-10 kgs
Any advice would be appreciated

[Smokey]

I have the Brevel scales that measure in 1.0 grams up to 5 kg. Very good. They also take room temp which is handy with baking pizza dough. They also do a few other things I forget and don't use.
However there are heaps of cheap mini druggy type scales that measure .1 or .01 on eBay if your playing around with SN for small batch curing where you might need 3.75 g and so forth.

[Hogsy]

Yes it's looking like I might need two scales
One for cures and one for meat
I'll check the Breville scales out

[urbangriller]

I've got one of those little Coke type scales from the bay, looks like a business card holder but works a treat, small, but I find it really handy for measuring my um, nutmeg!

Chris

[Gatsby]

One thing I found is check what batteries it uses.
One I got uses 2 watch type ones and they go flat quick - say couple of months and cost a bit to replace.
I changed to a different type which uses 2 AAA. last longer and much cheaper to replace.

Cheers

[food&fish]

I use those little watch type battery's in my brewing thermometer jaycar $7 to$ 9 each 50 landed from fleebay $8.00

[Gumb]

The last time I got cheap batteries from eBay, they were all past their use by date and didn't last long. The scales we have go through batteries like I go through red wine.

[gindemon]

We got given a Tupperware set of scales. Yellow ones. Accurate enough to measure out single digit grams of cure, goes up to at least 3-4kg, haven't tried weighing anything more than that. They work a treat.

[Hogsy]

Thanks gindemon, I picked up a set from aldi yesterday for $10, probably cheap and nasty but for $10 there worth a try
Weight range of 10g-5kg, I guess I'll have to buy another set to measure my ummm.....Parsley

[chrisg]

I must be a heathen, aside from flour for bread I hardly ever weigh anything when cooking

I can appreciate the need with cure for example but most everything else I just go by feel. I'm thinking most cooks do, thus the terms a pinch of this etc

My own kitchen scales, some unknown brand of digital will weigh down to 10g, but I don't think I've ever used them for that degree of accuracy.

If I ever were to need to be that accurate then I do still mess around with vinyl records, mostly setting up turntables for people. For that I have a set of cartridge scales purchased in the golden era of vinyl, also digital, will measure to a tenth of a gram but never been used in the kitchen.

Cheers