How to Use a Kitchen Scale

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I urge everyone to buy a digital kitchen scale. Analog scales are charming, but digital scales are precise. I recommend and use the Escali Primo. For around $25, you get a lot of bang for your buck!

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The weighing platform is easy to clean, the display is nice and large, and the tare and unit selection buttons are easy to use.

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I generally weigh my ingredients in a bowl. In this photo, I've just put the bowl on the platform, and you can see it weighs 19.45 oz.

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Press the On/tare button to zero out the weight of the scale so that you're only weighing your ingredients without having to subtract the weight of the bowl.

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After weighing each ingredient into the bowl, press "tare" again to reset to zero. For example, weigh out 4 oz butter, press the tare button, and weigh out 6 oz sugar right in with the butter.

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Press the unit selection button to switch among 3 settings: ounces, pounds and ounces, and grams.

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You can switch between them at will. For example, you can measure out 7 grams of salt on top of 8 oz of flour.

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