Hold manual: It activates Hold Function after pressing a key, keeping the weight on the display from the moment the key was pressed. Our favorite kitchen scale, from OXO, has a unit conversion button that allows you to easily switch between grams, kilograms, ounces, and pounds. What we didn’t like: It has a much lower maximum weight than our other top kitchen scale picks at just 6. Often used interchangeably, accuracy and precision are distinct factors in the context of measurements.

We’re not really sure what “print” means (the instruction manual doesn’t help), but it’s easy to ignore. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). This wasn’t the case with our former top pick, the Jennings CJ4000, which required frequent battery replacements. And with fewer grooves than some of the other models we tested, the Escali scale was one of the easiest to wipe clean.

In our most recent tests, it struggled to read anything lighter than 2 grams and would slowly increase readings over time.

Though some scales we tested did not support recalibration, we found that none were off by more than 2 grams, even with heavier weights. Unlike our upgrade pick, the My Weigh KD8000, the Escali Primo Digital Scale doesn’t have a backlit screen. The 1byone 700US-0001 Digital Kitchen Precise Cooking Baking Scale is pretty similar in design to our budget pick, the Ozeri Pronto.Accuracy refers to how close a measurement is to its true value, while precision alludes to the consistency of measurements. In many industrial settings, mechanical scales were valuable for weighing raw materials, particularly in environments where electrical power is unavailable. It has a backlit screen for easy reading and four rubber feet to hold the scale in place, and it was the only scale we tested to include a hinged plastic cover to keep the platform clean and protected.

The built-in timer is handy, too—a lot of bread recipes have rest periods between adding yeast and salt or stretching and folding the dough, and it’s easy to start the timer right on the scale. Because the scale's controls are built into the weighing platform, it was hard to measure any ingredients or tare a vessel because a slight touch to the scale would impact the weight. The LB-3000 proved similarly accurate in our whole-gram tests, with a few exceptions: It underweighed the 100 gram and kilogram weights by 0. My Weigh’s Kitchen Scale: This model was slower than the other scales we tested, taking longer to turn on. Also, since this scale doesn’t have an elevated weigh platform, we had difficulty reading the screen when using an oversized bowl to measure ingredients.New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . Understanding the nuances of gram scales can increase the precision, reliability, and integrity of operations. The best scales quickly show the gradual increase in weight when you’re measuring, which allows you to anticipate when to stop adding an ingredient to the bowl.