After years of abuse my Escali scale finally went to Kitchen Gadget Heaven. I’m surprised that she held out for as long as she did. RIP my dear Escali.
So, I went to my local kitchen store, and did something totally out of character. I betrayed a brand that I already knew and trusted.
I was seduced by this sleek looking Oxo scale. It had all sorts of pretty digital read outs like capacity limit, battery strength, and even had an “Extenda-Display” that you could pull out to make weighing large bowls more convenient. It was so nifty, I was totally smitten.
Shame on me.
The problem with the Oxo is it won’t stabilize to save its life. Right out of the box, it would fluctuate between 1 and 0 grams.
When weighing out a bread recipe, with about 3,500 grams worth of ingredients in the bowl (a little more then half the capacity), the readout would not stabilize, and fluctuated within a 30 gram range!
Take into consideration that this same bread recipe calls for 40 grams of salt and you see my problem. Did I add 10 grams or 40 grams? Big difference.
Now I’m willing to give this scale the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was a dud. But quite frankly, I don’t have time for duds, and with recipes that call for 2 grams of an ingredient, I need a stable scale.
I miss my Escali. ;-(
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Yeah, I remember reading Cook’s Illustrated testing of scales. It really is important to watch for all the nuances that can make or break a good scale…and then there’s that stability issue, too!
Starkman