December 1, 2015 - 6:31am
Professional Scale
I have been baking bread a two years now using a $48 scale that weighed up to 12 lbs. That scale has now broken and I bake enough bread to consider a professional food scale so as to more accurately weigh yeast, salt, etc with baker's formulas.
I am looking at the Ohaus scale used in my favorite bakery. Ohaus offers for the same price a scale that weighs up to 6 lbs with .5g accuracy, or a scale that weighs up to 15 lbs with a 1 g accuracy. Again, the price is identical. Is it best when making this size of an investment to get the smaller capacity/higher accuracy?
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I vote for more capacity because you can then tare big bowls. Very high accuracy is not that important; if you want to measure small quantities with high accuracy you can always buy a 'drug dealer scale.' .
Also important to me is easy-to-find batteries, like AA.
I've had very good luck with this scale, which is < $25. Buy a couple in case you break one ;-)
.... calling the smaller one a drug dealer scale :)
I, too, look for easier-to-find batteries instead of the "pill" or "coin" batteries.
If the price is the same, I'd say go with the one that'll fit your typical batch sizes best.
Third vote for a separate drug dealer scale for measuring small quantities. I have an 11 kg x 1g scale that I use to measure bulkier ingredients like flour and water, and a 100g x 0.01g increment mini scale for salt, yeast, extracts, etc. The larger capacity scale is nice because it doesn't matter whether I use a light aluminum bowl or my heavy glass mixing bowl.
If it's available where you live: dual platform scale
The detachable display is nice, too.
Thank you to all. The dual platform scale looks absolutely perfect! I will start searching for that immediately. Truly appreciate all of your expertise!
...it does bakers' percentages as well. Now I want one.
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