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Recommendations for a kitchen scale that is accurate enough to measure small amounts of ingredients?
I had a kitchen scale previously, but I bought it when I had less cooking and baking experience. It could only measure to full grams, so I didn't find it helpful for ingredients that are used in smaller quantities, like salt, spices, or yeast, especially if scaling down a recipe. I've tried asking before in another sub for scale recommendations that can measure down to a tenth of a gram, but the comments devolved into everyone hinting at or outright accusing me of being a drug dealer. So, I'm wondering either what scales do people of askBaking love - or how do you deal with those types of ingredients if the quantities are too small for your scale to measure?
What did you end up getting? I was thinking of getting the escali primo digital scale but wanted to first check with you.
It's as simple as buying a very small scale, and like you said, the same type drug dealers use. They are smaller than a calculator. You can get little watch glasses, concave round pieces of glass, to set on them and tare out before you measure, and it makes the process a lot easier.
I don't understand why people would freak out about this, having to measure small amounts is normal and also why would a drug dealer be coy about it? People are also buying drugs by the gram. No one is leaving their house for .01 grams of a drug. People are idiots.
I have a small scale I bout on amazon for prob $15 and it is able to accurately measure tiny amounts.
I use mine for flour and fentanyl.
Oh we joke about being drug dealers all the time. I remember hearing stories of chefs who bought their scales literally from police auction websites. Embrace it.
You need a crack scale. That’s what we call it. It’s a little one, they measure small amounts in small increments. There is a pretty cool spoon one a colleague had, where the scale part is literally a spoon. Combine a crack scale with a normal scale and you have a working pastry shop!
I wasn't upset at the implication so much as that the responses mainly cracked the joke without making any recommendations. Every single response here has individually been more helpful than the collective responses previously. I wish that I'd have asked this sub earlier!
Search for ‘digital scale milligrams’ on any marketplace and you’ll find what you need. Candy makers all have them, shouldn’t be more than $15. Mine has white ppowder residue on it, malic acid probably 🙂
jewelry scales
I’m so sorry that happened in the other sub. This is the one I use and pastry jobs I’ve worked at used. Edited to add rule of thumb was usually weighing anything under 10g such as yeast, agar that a scale couldn’t handle. [microscale](https://www.amazon.com/Weigh-Gram-Digital-Jewelry-Kitchen/dp/B06Y61YW7S/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=Micro+Scale&qid=1699625772&sr=8-4