food scales

Weighs your ingredients

Food scales are kitchen devices for weighing ingredients, essential for precise cooking and baking where volume measurements prove unreliable.

Digital food scales display weight in grams, ounces, or pounds; mechanical ones use a spring or balance.

A tare function lets you zero out the container's weight: I put the bowl on the scale and hit tare before adding flour.

Opposites
measurement method

food scalesmeasuring cups

Graduated kitchen vessels

measuring spoons · measuring jug · graduated cylinder

precision vs. estimation

food scaleseyeballing

Estimating by sight alone

guesswork · estimation · handful · pinch · approximation

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G