Kitchen Scale

[thyme4change]

I bought a kitchen scale a while ago - I mostly use it for recipes that come from professional kitchens (or Alton Brown.) I also use it to break up my Costco meat purchases into single-dinner portions.


As I've decided to track my calories just to see how many I actually take in, and make sure it is less than I burn, I have found it a great tool just to make sure I'm sticking with real portion sizes. I don't weigh everything - but only things that I'm not sure my eyeball is correct on.

Last night the battery died! Tragic. I have no idea how big that pork chop was, and I have 3 pounds of ground beef that I need to split up.

Do you have a kitchen scale? Do you use it?

[Deleted]

I usually get on my bathroom scale naked with a pork chop in each hand.

[thyme4change]

I tried that - but my kids got grossed out when I drop trou in the kitchen.

[Abby Normal]

We actually have an old postage scale I've been using.

[thyme4change]

Funny - because I use my kitchen scale when I have to calculate postage.

[dianartemis]

I love mine. I use it almost daily.

[The J]

I use to have a crappy one. I really want to get a quality digital one now, for baking purposes. I have a pretty good eye for portions.

[thyme4change]

I found a battery - so I'll portion out the meat tonight. I keep it in 10 oz to 12 oz packages. That keeps our portions to the recommended 3 oz each. I don't think that will last forever. Our kids are getting to that "always hungry" phase. Given how active they are, how balanced they eat and how they go through growth spurts, I know I will have to adjust. But for right now I'm just making the adult portions smaller and smaller. I won't move up until my husband and I start to get hungry.

P.S. Don't tell my husband - he hasn't acknowledged what is going on yet.

[dividend]

Feb 3, 2011 13:04:53 GMT -5 dianartemis said:

I love mine. I use it almost daily.

This. I just ate 1 oz of potato chips with my lunch. It was a totally satisfying portion, versus how easy it is to just mindlessly eat too much.

One downside is that I now know when a manufacturer is shorting on ounces. I hate buying a bag of chips that says 10oz, expecting to get 10 1-oz servings, and only getting 8.5. That makes me feel really ripped off. I noticed that same thing with frozen fruit, and packaged nuts.

[thyme4change]

Either they include the weight of the bag - or someone is sniveying.

[dianartemis]

If the bag says net weight - their skimming. I can't imagine there's 2+ oz of air in the bag.

[Deleted]

I had a cheap one and it just broke. I need to get a new one.

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

I have a good digital scale, it will weigh in either ounces or grams. It also is programmable so that it can give an exact calorie count of whatever you are weighing.

[The J]

FYI, Woot is selling a kitrics digital scale (with built in nutrional labeling) for $16 plus s&h today (it's $40 at Amazon). I just ordered one -- the reviews I've seen are good, and it does ounces and grams.

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