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Naftoor
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Nov 5, 2018
Kinda shocked this isn't in baking, considering you weigh stuff more often for baked goods then stuff on a stovetop, but hey I'm not MD and I don't choose how to logically sort items with any of the ever expanding number of categories that are criminally underutilized by the designers... That being said; I've been using a cheapo Ozeri ZK14-R Pronto for the last year for most of my baking. Pros:
  • Cheap
  • Weighs 11 pounds which is useful for delivering children, weighing human heads, delivering heads, and all forms of baked goods on the scale that I bake them. (No mixer so no double batches, I just do single batches back to back)
  • Cheap
  • Tiny so it stores easily
  • Easily Readable
  • Simple to use even when blearily making sourdough waffles before the siren call of a warm bed and a snoring girlfriend draw you back to the covers to sleep until you regret wasting the weekend
  • Did I mention it's cheap?
Cons:
  • It's really frickin' cheap.
  • Also it can only measure to 1 gram accuracy. I need better. For reasons. Like yeast. And also salt. Nobody wants salt measured with questionable 1 gram accuracy.
Anyone had any experience with other scales? Looking to pick up one that can do either .1 or .01 grams, if it can also do oz's that would be great but it isn't really needed at that scale (badumtish!) because the last time a cookbook author wrote "0.0035 oz of salt, any more and your recipe is doomed to be added to bathtubs to allow people to recreate the dead sea spa experience" he was taken behind the publishers printing press and summarily executed. Doesn't need to take heavy weight as the Ozeri laughs in some form of eastern european language at all attempts to break it with flimsy american flour, as such it merely needs to precisely measure seasonings with japanese precision to enable creation of high speed low drag tactical baked goods. Splashproof would be great, as I feel using a plastic bag to protect it from dribbles would mess with the accuracy to a pretty large extent when going for .01g.