Found out most baking scales are wildly inaccurate under $30

I always thought my kitchen scale was fine. Then I weighed a cup of flour on it and got 130 grams. Weighed it again and got 145. I did this 5 times and got 5 different numbers. Turns out there's a YouTube channel called "The Kitchen Scale Project" that tested like 40 scales under $30. Only 3 of them were actually accurate within 2 grams. The rest were all over the place. I spent $45 on a decent Escali scale and now my cookie recipes actually come out the same every time. Has anyone else had their stuff turn out different because of a cheap scale?

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tylermason1mo ago

Yeah that cup of flour thing drove me nuts too, I finally just bit the bullet and got a My Weigh KD-8000 after seeing the same video. Three different cheap scales I tried before that were all consistently 10-15 grams off.

barbara_sanchez881mo ago

Got a kitchen scale last year and now I wonder how I ever baked without one. It's like half the measuring cups and spoons out there are just guessing. Same thing with bathroom scales honestly. Had three different ones give me wildly different weights on the same morning. You just can't trust the cheap stuff anymore. Makes you wonder what else in life is off by ten percent and nobody bothers to check.