Kitchen Scales: Recommendations? Warnings? [View all]

[kentauros]

Hi y'all!

Thanks to a thread yesterday, on of all things, the metric system, the subject came up of measuring your ingredients as a means to be more accurate in the kitchen. While I do acknowledge that not all cooks bother with such a tool, those of us that love to bake rely on a scale of some kind. It just makes it not only easier, but consistent, which is more important in baking.

It spurred me to go looking on the site I knew for reviews, Consumer Reports. Only, it appears they have never reviewed kitchen scales. My guess on that is related to the preceding paragraph. American cooks just don't use them, or not enough for CR to do any testing. So, I headed over to an equally fine site for product testing, Cook's Illustrated. There, I found what I needed.

So, now that I've recently discovered that my old Cuisinart scale is no longer accurate (it measured 3 Cups of water at 1# 9.5 oz.) I went with Cook's "Highly Recommended" scale by OXO. I haven't yet bought it, but it's in a shopping cart online at this moment

I would like to know what scales the rest of y'all use, as well as your recommendations, or warnings of ones to stay away from.

Thanks!