Etekcity Food Kitchen Scale With Bowl, Digital Ounces and Grams for Cooking, Baking, Meal Prep, Dieting, and Weight Loss, 11lb/5kg, Backlit Display

Works great, looks great and I love the size of the clear plastic tray that it comes with. I use this scale to monitor and keep track of my crested geckos weights and overall health. It’s super simple to use, even my kids use it! So far the durability / thickness of the buttons seems “snappy” and responsive. I’ve been using it consistently every week and the battery life is still full.

I bought one a couple years ago to use j our home up north. It works great, easy to use and store, and is generally a *very* useful item to have!Now we are down south, and I found myself missing my little digital friend. So, I bought a nice snappy red one!You can’t go wrong with this; there are selectable weighing options, the price is reasonable and it takes up very little space in small kitchens.

Accurate readings. Light weight. Can be used as a bowl scale for measuring food or a plate scale for measuring lighter items! Very handy!

It's Easy to use, and it's exactly what I was looking for in order to weigh my food and be calorie accurate. The stylish red looks great in my kitchen. It allows you to "tare" the bowl that comes with it or any other container you are using. Great product.

I cook from scratch and prep all of my food. Every day. I perfect and document my recipes by weight and not volume. Grams. I have used a handful of scales over time and I like this one. I am not nominating it for world's greatest scale or anything, but I find it to be dependable, convenient and about the right size for use and storage.This particular purchase is my second of this particular model. I bought the first in December, 2020. I bought the second, a replacement, in May of 2022.Pros:I find this model to be accurate and largely trouble free. It is the right size: Large enough to be convenient in use, small enough to squirrel away in a drawer. Batteries last for a long time (although I am not a fan of discount batteries).Okay, the cons/rants...1. I don't appreciate the auto-off function. Let's explore this for a second. What is the purpose of the auto-off function? Is it to save battery life? Is this scale really pulling so much energy that you have to shut the thing down in two minutes??? While I am sidetracked or distracted with something else? Maybe I am prepping something while I am measuring. Maybe my phone rings in the middle of measuring flour. The scale should not run the kitchen!Can we compromise? How about five minutes prior to shut down? How about a way to disable the auto-off function?2. In a perfect world, a scale would last longer than... how long did my first scale last? 17 months? The first scale started becoming unreliable--not inaccurate--and was making me nervous. (Yes, I changed the batteries. LOL.)-- The unit button didn't have the same feel over time, although I rarely used it in the first place because I almost always use grams. I speculate that, over time, ingredients found their way into the cracks of the button, but that is pure speculation. I am a borderline perfectionist and not a slob. A humble guy mislabeled as a curmudgeon because I dislike kitchen visitors who leave things in disarray. "Get out of my kitchen." The problem is not a result of abuse.-- The unit settings started to change on its own, causing me to reset it to grams more than it did early in the product's life.-- A couple of times, the scale shut off on its own, well before the two-minute cook's deadline, in the middle of my measuring, causing me problems. This is what prompted me to replace the first scale. The last straw.So, why would I buy the same product again? Well, you have to look at the factors involved, and I use the scale relentlessly, for everything related to meals. I weigh coffee beans for our coffee when I wake up. I keep using it, all the way until I, say, measure mayo, mustard, lemon juice and honey to make honey mustard dressing (the whole process takes less than a minute) as I wrap up dinner prep. And, yes, I use it to make the mayo, too. I even have a spare so that I don't have an emergency situation. So, the thing got a lot of use.Should I take the risk that someone else's scale might be better??? Or should I go with the the devil you know, so to speak? Meh... I think this scale is at least four stars. And while I have listed some cons, I kinda like the thing. Moderate "everyday" use in a typical household should be worry free... just don't leave that scale idle for two minutes!!! Grrr!!! LOL.

I absolutely love this food scale. It was even better than my Weight Watchers scale that I after many years of you dropped and it stopped working. They thin light plastic dish that comes with it to help you way. Larger amounts is very helpful. It’s easy to use the display for the numbers as large and easil to read. I also purchased a 200 g weight so that I could check the scale to see if it was accurate and it was. (I’m serious when it comes to being accurate about my amounts and how many calories they are.) I highly recommend this item.

UPDATE: 3 years later and no issues. I haven't even had to change the batteries yet! 🤗--------------------I am very pleased with this product. I bought it to replace an aging scale that had a few annoyances. I was pleasantly surprised at how this scale performed.THE GOOD:1. It remembers which unit I'm using, so if the display turns off and I have to turn it back on, I don't have to wait until it zeros out and switch from ounces back to grams every time like I did with my old scale. Such a simple feature, but soooo helpful! 🤗2. It seems to maintain its accuracy throughout the measuring process. As I was adding small amounts of ingredients, to increase the weight to the exact grams I needed, it was quick to respond accurately.3. After finishing that process, it returned to exactly zero, when I removed the container. 😏 My previous scale would often return to a negative number and I would need to re-zero the scale and weigh the ingredients again to be sure.4. The display is very easy for me to read. The LCD is very responsive and quick to react to changes in data. The backlight helps make it more readable. 🧐5. There is a lot of information on the screen. I don't prepare a lot of dough myself, but I presume the ambient temperature readout in 10ths of a degree, would be very useful.It's also nice to have a timer built into the scale, eliminating the need to have a separate timer occupying kitchen countertop space.When the scale is at exactly zero, the word, "ZERO" appears on the left, reassuring me that the scale is exactly zeroed out and not a fraction of an ounce/gram off.THE BAD:6. I washed the bowl before using it the first time. However, when I started measuring items for the first time, I was measuring out chopped sweet peppers, which were fairly wet. So I wiped out the bowl with a paper towel between ingredients.The first time I wiped it out, I noticed a significant amount of grey (metal?) on the paper towel. 😳 So I took it to the sink and scrubbed it with a brush and dish soap.As I continued to measure more sweet peppers and wipe the bowl in between measurements, I still noticed more gray residue on the paper towel, only not nearly as much. I can only assume that the acidity of the peppers was reacting with the bowl. After 3 or 4 more times, the gray stopped appearing on the paper towel.I would suggest washing the bowl several times with dish soap and perhaps wiping it down with something like lemon juice or vinegar, to get the bowl in proper shape before using it to measure ingredients.7. I find it frustrating that the shape of the scale is round. I purchase this round model because I liked the idea of having a dedicated bowl for the measuring process. I also liked the idea that the extra bowl wouldn't take up additional space, because I could store the scale inside the bowl, saving me storage space.I didn't think the round shape would be a big deal, but I'm in a wheelchair ♿ and need to keep items within easy reach. Because of this, my options of where I can store the scale are limited. The only place I have to store the scale, is standing up on its edge, on a shelf of a kitchen cabinet.Due to the fact that it's round, I end up leaning it against the side of the cabinet, to keep it from rolling. In practice, I am often standing the scale back on its edge after it's tipped over. 🤨I also found that needing to store it in this position, made it impossible to store the scale, together with the bowl, to save some space. 😒Perhaps this could be resolved by by designing the bowl and scale so they snapped together and putting a handle on the side of the bowl, giving it a flat surface to stand up on while in storage? 🤔