Escali Pico PR500S Precision Kitchen Food Scale for Baking and Cooking, Lightweight and Durable Design, LCD Digital Display, Lifetime ltd. Warranty, Metallic Small

I cook and bake extensively, including making all of our salad dressings, glazes, marinades, and sauces from scratch. I have been in need of a kitchen scale that accurately measures small to very small quantities, which sometimes are not accurate on larger kitchen scales, particularly quantities of 5 grams or less. I am so pleased with the Escali Pico Presion Kitchen Food Sale! Everything about it exceeded my expectations. - Durable construction. Poured by a 9 Volt battery. Helpful product manual. - Very easy to use with a clear LCD display. - Scale display stays on for about 5 minutes. That is a convenient time frame when you are measuring numerous items. - Measures from 0.1 grams to 500 grams, in 0.1 gram increments. This is so very helpful for me when measuring small amounts! Scale also weighs corresponding measurements in ounces. - Measurements are accurate. This handy kitchen scale is a terrific value, too. I highly recommend this product.

Someone said that this must be for drug dealers, because it can’t be used in the kitchen. There are numerous errors in the description, so I thought I would correct those and tell you what it is used for. First of all, the limit is 500 grams for the Escali Pico, and the size is tiny. It is used primarily to count large numbers of tiny things. Suppose you need 500 small glass or metal beads. You weigh a much smaller number according to the directions, then switch to count mode, and either use this to tell you how many you have all together, or else to tell you when you’ve reached the amount you need. I’m a mathematician, so I never use it that way. Instead, I use it for yarn. I know how many yards are originally in a skein from the yarn label. Take the weight in grams (trust me, it’s easier) of the leftover yarn and divide by the weight of the full skein/hank (usually 100gm), then multiply by the # of yards originally in the skein. That gives you a good estimate of how many yards are left. If you knit or crochet, it is a godsend. It allows you to make the best use of your leftover yarn without always falling back on scrap patterns.

Seems acurate but built is flimsy and broke with a little over 2 years of sporadic use. Uses non conventional batteries so difficult to replace. Regretted the purchase on day 1, but used it until it broke. Will not buy again.

As noted in other reviews, this scale is TINY and is only meant to weigh small quantities. However, we use small, light metal bowls to weigh out our salt and yeast for all of our artisan bread recipes. We always weigh our ingredients and we were never able to find a scale sensitive enough for these 1-2 gram increments. We have used it several times and are impressed by the accuracy . The only fiddly thing about it is a short (2-3 second) lag between adding ingredients and when the weight changes, so you need to add some salt/yeast, wait a bit for a beep, then add more. This is not a complaint, but just a heads up! Great scale.

We bought this little scale for both coffee and cooking/baking. I like to scale recipes back to two servings and sometimes that requires better accuracy than 1 gram minimum increments like our older scale has. It works very well as long as whatever container I'm weighing into doesn't overwhelm the tare maximum. For larger amounts I still need our older 1 gram/5 lb max scale. The only thing I don't like is the long time it takes to manually turn off. I would rather forego the audible on/off button for a dedicated power button that immediately works. But otherwise it works well and is small enough to easily put away (or travel with if you want a travel coffee scale).

I've had this scale for two years now and it works great! Yesterday I dropped it about six inches onto the counter top and it started giving bad readings. I was about to re-order the same scale and realized I had not changed the battery since I bought it. Popped a new 9v Duracell in and it's good to go. It's only use is to weigh coffee beans everyday. The 9v battery lasts a long long time and the fact that you don't have to plug this into a wall outlet make it great. All in all it seems to be very durable as I take it on road trips, the boat, dropped it and hasn't failed me yet!

I use this small scale to measure individual supplement ingredients, often-times requiring 0.1g accuracy. This works perfectly. The scale is durable, very well-made, and performs great!

I didn't do extensive testing but I was only able to get the scale to tare and zero out when there's less than 200g of weight on it. Very annoying. There's a hold measure feature that useful for measuring larger items that obstruct the screen but that's only useful for measuring a total unknown weight, I want to use the scale for measuring out a specific weight. Takes one 9V battery.

Durable, accurate and reliable

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Yo ya había utilizado esta báscula pero ya no la pude conseguir, usé otras básculas pero no fue lo mismo. Esta báscula es muy fácil de usar, es precisa y nos facilita el trabajo de la tortillería.

Works great. Pricey in my opinion, but I bought it, so I guess not more pricey than is reasonable. Love that it has fractions of grams. Great for helping me keep my small sourdough starter.