Escali Pana V136 Large Volume Measuring Kitchen/Baking/Cooking Scale, Preprogrammed With Over 150 Ingredients, LCD Digital Display, 13lb Capacity

I can't say enough good things about this scale. It's by far the best kitchen scale I've ever used or even heard of. It has helped me finally learn to bake properly, and it's truly the secret to my success. Everyone loves my beer cheese bread, chocky cake, and chocky chip cookies. This scale, a KitchenAid stand mixer, and King Arthur Flour are must-haves for any serious home baker, IMHO. Pros: 1. My favorite, stand-out feature of this scale is the pre-programmed conversion calculations it can do. By using the included, laminated card (see the pic) to find the product you're using, flour, sugar, milk, etc., it will convert the weight into a volume unit like cups or tablespoons. This is very useful if your recipe only gives volume instead of weight measurements. Good baking really needs accurate measurements. 2. It can handle a wide range of weights. From 1 gram increments up to 13 pounds! That's far more than any other scales I've seen. It makes it the only scale one would need in a kitchen, and even around the house. 3. It's small, low-profile, and lightweight, making it easy to store out of the way in a drawer or cabinet. 4. It's easy to clean with a sealed control panel and a removable, stainless steel platter. 5. It's powered by a standard 9 volt battery that lasts a good long time thanks to the auto-off feature. 6. The display is easy to read and can show/convert imperial or metric weight units, as well as the volume units mentioned above. 7. Made in the U.S., so the company says and it appears to be, which is a good thing, I guess. It's not just some generic rando brand. Cons: None - full stop. Highly recommended. Just get it. You know you want it.

This is a fantastic little scale. It's the second one I've bought - after many years of working great, it got dropped. I noticed that the part that broke off because it had been glued on the old model is now screwed in on the new model, so that should increase durability. This scale will automatically convert any recipe to weights with its built-in database of ingredient densities. It's accurate, easy to use, and has a nice high maximum weight. I also love that you can use either pounds and ounces OR total ounces in addition to kg/g. (e.g. 20 oz or 1 lb 4 oz) NOTE: This scale uses a pretty light cup of flour - 4.25 oz. Because the weight of a cup of flour can vary significantly from person to person or author to author (that's why you want to convert to using weights in the first place - much more accurate) if you - or your mom or grandma - are/were a heavy flour weigher - that is, you just dip the measuring cup into the flour without fluffing it first or without sprinkling it into your cup measure, your recipes probably run 5 oz or more per cup of flour, so I would recommend that you NOT use the volume conversion for flour in your old tried and true recipes, but rather, figure out your own, personal weight for a cup of flour and use that. (Only for those old family recipes, though. Use the scale's conversion for everything else in the absence of actual weights, or if the author doesn't specify how they measure their flour. And if they don't... maybe don't use that recipe? Anyone writing recipes these days without giving weights is probably not someone you want to trust with your valuable time and ingredients.)

This is a great product until it stops working. I’ve bought this product TWICE and within a year they just stopped turning on. I changed the batteries, but the buttons would get stuck, and eventually they wouldn’t even turn on. It was great while I lasted, but I can not recommend it to anyone.

My wife was skeptical, she thought my penchant to buy tools had expanded into her area. She's a home baker and I felt this was the next step for her to iron out some of the occasional misses. Baking is prescriptive, scientific, more so than cooking which seems more artful and dependent on alchemy from time, ingredients and heat. Measurements have to be right, especially for ingredients which can compact/compress. So weight becomes key. This is easy to use. It comes with a chart that we quickly noticed was missing some commonly used ingredients, but it's probably because they're used in such small amounts. You can always use your favorite search engine to lookup something in lieu of, or to supplement, the chart. All in all, super intuitive to use. Watch the video(s) on it by the manufacturer.

Love the accuracy. Don’t use the cups type of measurements often, but I have and they work very well as long as you have the sheet full of codes handy

I am really happy with this product, I really recommend it, I use for make soap and works perfectly fine. A**

The scale seemed to work well enough for my purposes (baking for leisure). It is bigger than a lot of other scales, beeps loudly when you turn it on or change modes and takes some time to register changes in weight but wasn't a huge deal to me. It's intuitive to use. The problem is that after 3 uses for a total of 15 mins max over a span of 3 weeks, the battery died. The on button is quite sensitive and I did hear it turn on randomly once. Luckily, because it beeps I turned it off immediately. I also removed the battery between two of the uses so the scale wouldn't accidentally be turned on. This scale has an auto shut off function so not a case of the battery being drained. I don't have 9V batteries around so haven't tested that that's the only issue.

Great product !