After six years of wear and tear, Lesley’s Ozeri finally died, but she quickly replaced it with another that she’s had for the past 8 months. As on our top pick, the Ozeri’s digital screen isn’t backlit, but its elevated weighing platform still allows you to read the scale, even when you’re using a large bowl.

The Hanson H500 scales, which you may also see labelled as Terraillion, as the latter bought out the former some time ago, have a great retro feel. All of our digital scales have maximum weights on them so bear this in mind, when you're browsing through our range. Anyone who wants more consistent results from their baking, cooking, or coffee brewing should consider getting a scale. We paid close attention to the scales’ functions including tare and unit selection to check for functionality and ease of operation. Many of the lightweight scales easily fell over and bounced around on the counter whenever we tried to press tare or change units; this was especially noticeable in ultra-slim models.We’re not really sure what “print” means (the instruction manual doesn’t help), but it’s easy to ignore.

This model also passed our small amounts test with flying colours, managing to register a single gram. It’s pretty big—about the size of a pop-up toaster—but of all the scales we’ve tested, it has the highest weighing capacity at 17 pounds, 6 ounces. And the weighing surface area is big enough so that the display wasn’t obscured even by a large mixing bowl. Picking between them can be easier than it first appears, as long as you know what sort of cook you are and what you need the scale to do.In other words, don’t try weighing a 7-pound bag of malted barley on the American Weigh LB-3000, which can tolerate about 6.

We repeat this multiple times to see how accurate the scales are, and if readings are consistent each time. Although it’s similar in appearance to our top pick, the Ozeri has a far shorter auto-off duration and is ever so slightly slower at reading weights. Some of the scales' auto shutoff would kick in, annoyingly, after just one minute, while our top pick lasted the longest, at six minutes. In our tests, we found that mechanical scales are a more hands-on experience than using a set of digital kitchen scales; you need to tare them manually rather than just pressing a button like you do with digital scales.We found them a little slow to register the weight and the larger scale only began registering weight when two grams was placed on top. If the battery compartment does not close securely, stop using the product and keep it away from children. Although it wasn’t the speediest scale we came across, the LB-3000 was far and away the most accurate of the five pocket scales we tested in 2018. Additionally, the Escali scale was one of the most responsive models we tested: Whether we were adding or removing items, it always read weights in less than a second, making it one of the standout scales in terms of speed. Sustainability: we asked what the scales were made from, looked at how they were packaged, and at their power method.

Tanita provide a range of digital weighing scales which are perfect for use in the jewellery industry. As pastry chef Jürgen David told us, “Using a scale is much more precise… If you measure 100 grams of flour using a scale, it’s going to be the same for everyone.They measure in smaller increments and don't rely on you judging where the needle is pointing (like a mechanical scale). Two-step battery removal is law for children's toys to avoid children getting harmed by swallowing batteries. The large, bright and clear display is offset so that it won’t be obscured by whatever you use to weigh in and we were impressed by its lightning-quick response time, and that it registered every gram along the way.