Amazon Basics Stainless Steel Digital Kitchen Scale with LCD Display, Batteries Included
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I've owned a number of kitchen scales, and this one has been carefully designed not to do the things that will drive you crazy over time. Specifically:\n- It can be turned on with something on the scale, and automatically tare.\n- The delay before automatic shutoff is long enough not to be annoying.\n- The tare functionality has a history function, so you can work your way backward if needed.\n- The readout sticks out far enough that you can still read it when weighing large objects, like plates.\n- It doesn't use wacky, hard-to-find batteries.\n\nReliable, intuitive, and inexpensive. The only way to improve this scale would be to increase its accuracy from 1g to 0.1g."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This scale, for the money, is a screaming bargain. Very accurate—I set my 200 gram weight on it (see pic) and it was spot on. Easy to tare and switch to other measurements. Nice, compact size too. Can’t speak to how durable it is since it’s pretty new but, for the money, it’s well made. That said, I have other scales that cost more that seem better built. All in all, highly recommended.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I not only cook and bake a lot at home but am a pastry chef and can tell you this is my go to scale for smaller jobs! I love it so much! Always consistent and accurate, easy to clean and care for, has a super long battery life, I don’t even recall changing batteries. And stores conveniently in any drawer. I bought one and then bought another as a back up just in case I accidentally drop it, because... I can’t live without this thing!\nWeighing food, ensures your cooking and baking comes out right and consistently so! Look no further!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "At face value, I was really happy with this scale and its performance. But after two uses, it started automatically shutting down mid-use. I bought for making pour over coffee, which takes about ~3 minutes. There is a 2 minute, 15 sec automatic shutoff feature in this scale that is only supposed to take place if the scale balance does not change. However, this seems to be faulty as it will shut off automatically as I am pouring the coffee. Not only that, it doesn't happen consistently at 2 min, 15 sec but even sooner."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'The item does not weigh correctly. We were surprised by a couple of weights, thinking they looks low for the amount of food. When we started weighing items with weights on the packaging, we found consistently low weights given by the scale.\n(If you zoom in on the products you can see their labeled weights.)'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "I bought this scale for making pour over coffee. Unfortunately, the scale can't be relied on to stay on for 3 minutes at a time, even if the weight on the scale is changing. Sometimes it would stay on for long enough, some times it would decide to turn off. On top of that, occasionally the reading would drift by 5-10 grams... it would just not stabilize. Overall, I'm pretty disappointed in this scale."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This scales does what it was intended to do.\nIt is easy to use. I didn't even need to read the instructions as the button labels made it obvious.\nThe scale doesn't take up much space, and it's relatively light as well."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': "I love these suckers. They die easily when water gets in them, though. Still, I just order a new one at that time because they are so usable and cheap. The display is clear and easy for my old eyes to read. The scale is accurate and has some nifty functions like being able to show the weight of what was added and then show the whole. But it's not complicated to do."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "The scale on a couple of occasions, failed to read any weight being added. I was trying to add an additional 8 grams of ingredients, but the scale held in place until it suddenly change to a 15 gram increase. The scale also shuts down in the middle of using it. The 2 and a half minute auto shutdown is one of the longer delays that I have seen, but it's 2 and a half minutes no matter if you are adding weight or not. 3 times, the scale has shut down during the addition of ingredients. That's a good way to ruin a recipe."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'It could be a little bigger than it is because sometimes it\'s hard to read the scale under whatever you set on top of it but it works fine and it\'s priced right.\n\nBut do yourself a favor and don\'t use it to weigh meats from the grocery store. You\'re going to be furious when you discover how much Food Lion has been ripping you off with their chicken that\'s little more than saltwater balloons that weigh over a pound less than you were charged for when you take it out of the... lol... "flavoring solution" it\'s swimming in in the styrofoam package. Then you realize there\'s probably at least that much more water still in the chicken which is where they injected it to artificially increase the weight, essentially thumbing the scale and selling you salt water for $3/lb.\n\nSeriously, don\'t do it! Just weigh flour and cake pans and dough and whatnot. Don\'t ruin your day by adding up how much money the grocery store steals from you every week.'}]