About this deal
These scales can usually take a lot of weight and you don’t need batteries, but the spring inevitably gets wear and tear over the years, which results in ever-decreasing accuracy.
Plus, the mechanical scales we tested only measure in steps of 20-25g, while digital scales can measure in 1g increments. The cream colour won’t appeal to everyone and the 3kg weight limit means you might need to be careful about what vessel you use to weigh in – a ceramic mixing bowl used up half the weight allocation by itself.It’s pretty cheap and accurate, but it’s got a fairly short auto-off duration of just over two minutes—about 13 seconds shorter than our top pick. It’s nice if the scale has the option to turn off the auto-off function entirely, but that’s pretty rare. In comparison, you have to hold down the power/tare button of the Escali to turn it off, making it much harder to do by accident. For nearly half the cost of our top pick, the Ozeri Pronto delivers the same level of accuracy but has a much shorter auto-off time.
The digital display panel may not have been the biggest or brightest we’ve seen but we still had no problem reading it.These use the jug as your bowl, with the weight shown on a digital LCD display, usually found at the top of the handle.