TL; DR: it’s okay for measuring if you don’t have OCD, I guess.

Reason for purchase: baking needs & calorie counting

I love the design of this scale - the two platforms are a great idea and I use both frequently. I love that the load capacity of both platforms is sufficient that you might put a bowl on either and tare it to add items that might otherwise roll off the platform.

It’s easy to use, tares quickly, toggles back and forth between grams & ounces easily.

(I’d been using a chemistry scale, which weighs in hundredths of grams. It had a capacity of 200g, though, so imagine my vexation whenever weighing anything greater than that, especially if a container on the platform ate up some of that capacity. The chemistry scale never let me down, though.)

This scale has the following issues - if you add something very slowly to the larger platform, particularly a light item, like sprinkling flour into a container, it does not keep up with the added weight. If I tap the platform with my finger, it’ll catch up, but then I have no idea if it’s accurate so I’ll pick up the container and set it back down again, sometimes to find it was accurate, sometimes to find that the weight jumped up another gram or two.

I checked both platforms against my chemistry scale multiple times and found that they’re pretty close, though the smaller platform is absolutely more sensitive to weight changes (I don’t mean because it measures in hundredths of grams, I mean that it will go up when you add something, whereas the larger platform doesn’t, always). The larger platform is sometimes off by a gram or three.

I found the same discrepancy when checking the two platforms against each other. If we accept the smaller platform as the more-accurate, then the larger platform tends to under-weigh items, and it seems that the discrepancy between the two platforms increases with the weight of the item in question (see pictures).

I therefore use the smaller platform as much as practicality allows, but I wish the big one were more sensitive.

I accept that grams are tiny units of measurement and I should probably get over it and resign myself to mediocrity, but different measurements from the same scale makes one question whether the thing is entirely faulty, and that makes me itchy. Did the cheese I just weighed and ate add 44 calories to my daily total, or 48? Or was it in fact 72?

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I'm an avid cook, and work as an analytical chemist - I appreciate a good scale, and use them frequently as part of my job. I bought this scale over the (many) cheaper options both because I like the idea of the dual balance (if your recipe calls for 1 g or 0.5 g, you're not going to get a good measurement on a 10 kg scale), and because it looked well built.

Unfortunately, it's built very cheaply. Yes, the weigh pans themselves are metal, but they aren't removable, so cleaning them is a chore (seriously, who designs a scale like that?). The body of the scale is flimsy plastic, which is disappointing for a $50 scale when there are so many cheaper options. Also, the scale auto turns off after one minute without a change in mass, which really isn't enough time if you're grabbing an ingredient out of the pantry or need to look at your recipe. I like that it's easy to switch between units, and taring is simple, but overall I wouldn't purchase again.

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I purchased a few scales before I ended up with this one. It is well worth the money. Great accuracy and no need to constantly recalibrate. Well built item, no wondering if you will get shipped a faulty version like other scales on here.

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I’m not new to food scales, so I feel like I have the experience to say that this one is an overpriced hunk of junk. As I add more food to the scale, the weight display doesn’t go up. Then other times I watch the weight go up over 1-2 minutes, even though I haven’t added anything more to the scale. My $11 food scale — which lasted for 5 years — was way better. I feel like a sucker for buying this.

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It's not perfect, but it's damn good.

The larger scale has a really high weight limit which is great. The lower one gets more precise which is great if you're carefully measuring salt, or things like that.

Occasionally the thing goes to sleep in the middle of a measurement which sucks, so the self-timing off is pretty terrible at times. Other times, I measure and go do stuff and I come back to put it away and it's still on.

The view of the #'s is usually great, well lit. However, if you have a big bowl and are filling stuff, it's not a clear shot to see the output. Unlike the OXO which has the pull out reader, this is fixed.

Overall, pretty happy with it, it's not perfect, but it's good.

If you don't find the need for massive amounts of weight, then get the oxo one, it's much better overall.

This does look really beautiful though.

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Admittedly we're pretty heavy users, counting calories, and lots of weighing and measuring. That being said I'm sure we exceed the quantity of uses per day of your average user.

PRO's:

The display is great, very easy to read, the increased weight threshold is useful for our larger dishes when calculating the total for macros, and two scales simultaneously is super efficient.

CON's:

It lasted just past the warranty rendering the warranty useless.

It is not waterproof. I get it. It's not industrial. But it saturates behind the display. First making it unreadable, then one scales digital reader and keys stopped working, and lastly killing the whole scale making it stop working altogether.

TAKEAWAY:

Buy the Ozeri for $15. We use so scales so frequently at our house (I get it we're insane