A kitchen scale can be the key to nailing precise recipes and streamlining measurements while you cook, and none to the job ...

There are plenty of kitchen scales available that look sleek, store easily, promise accuracy, and can handle decently heavy loads. Here's what to look for when shopping for your own.

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For instance, if a recipe yields 10 cupcakes, but you want to make 12 or 14, you can multiply the recipe by 1.2 or 1.4 and easily make a few more,” he says.

Weighing them up The main test was to check the scales for accuracy, and I used a set of calibration weights based on grams, including 1g, 2g, 10g, 20g, 50g and 100g. I started by using a 1g ...

If clunky, busy kitchen scales are weighing you down, this streamlined version will lighten your load. It’s also slim, but can measure up to 11 pounds, which is pretty much the industry standard.

To measure, set your bowl on the scale and tare it (reset the scale to zero) then, add your first ingredient based on the amount indicated in your recipe, then reset it again before adding the next.

Drop Kitchen Scale : Recipe Page After choosing a recipe from the main page, the recipe will then appear in glorious full-screen, with a high-resolution photograph.