This is a great little scale. The glass platter sits on top of the scale, but isn’t attached, so you can use it to measure amounts that are too small to be worth getting a bowl out for. The interface is simple and perfect – an ‘on/off/tare’ button, which does what it says, and a button to change the units – it measures in grams, ounces with fractions – 2 1/8 oz, or ounces in decimal form – 2.12 oz. As far as I can tell, the scare is accurate to the gram. I have a set of brass weights for a balance scale calibrated to the gram, and the scale gets the right answer for them.

Now for the negatives – first, I’m not sure where ‘cast iron’ comes from in the description. The base is plastic, and the platter is frosted glass. Still, it’s pretty sturdy, so not really a big deal. Second, with the glass platter centered, you can’t see the display if you’re looking straight down…kind of strange. If you just scoot the plate back a little bit, you can see fine. Also, the unit ‘re-tares’ to zero if it automatically shuts off and you have to turn it back on, which can be unfortunate. The automatic shutoff timeout is fairly long, though; about five minutes or so, I think. It would be nice if it would remember the previous tare setting when it shut off automatically.

Finally, the display updates slightly slower than I’d like. It takes maybe a full second from the time something is added until it stops updating. It isn’t unbearable, though, and about the same as other scales I’ve used. This is the only real negative for me, since I’d rather pour whatever it is and stop at the right time. With this scale, like every other kitchen scale I’ve tried, it’s more “pour and wait, pour and wait, remove a little, wait.”

Despite the minor negatives above, this is still the best digital scale I’ve found so far, so I’m very happy with it.
Rating: 4 / 5