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I was so excited when I read the reviews of the Oxo Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display here on Amazon. I have been looking for a scale that will weigh in grams and ounces for weighing out beads and findings, or very small amounts of spices and foods.
This scale is very thin, the pull-out display works great, and it it easy to store.
Big Deal.
I mean, this scale is so horrible that I could not BELIEVE that everyone that reviewed this never had a problem with this scale.
I got out beads and tried to weigh one gram of beads. I weighed the same exact beads literally over and over about 60 times and only three times did I get the same exact weight. And that was only when the weight got up into the 10 gm range. The rest of the time the weight was wildly erratic.
1 gram of beads went from three small seed beads to 230 beads. It was almost inconceivable that a scale of this large price range could be so horrible to use. I have never been so disappointed in a purchase before based upon such positive reviews.
If I could give this NO STARS I would.
I am returning this piece of junk and still upset that it is so defective. I don’t trust another scale again from this company after this.
The Tare function is erratic as well- one minute it zeros out and then the next minute it is in the negative and then it suddenly goes into the positive- all without being touched, knocked or altered in any way.
There has to be another scale out there for this price range that will actually be accurate and weigh things. I have visions of crying women weighing in at Weight Watchers not able to figure out how they could gain weight when they carefully weighed EVERYTHING they ate.
*shakes head*
I am really unhappy with this whole thing.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this scale – twice. They both had the same problem. When I was weighing something out gradually, like vegetables that I slice up bit by bit, the display would turn off after a while. It shouldn’t do that, because there were only a few seconds delay between putting things on the scale.
But worse, I would press a key to try to get the weight back, and the scale would come back with a weight of 0! Rather than saving the weight as it’s supposed to. It didn’t matter which key I pressed, the same thing would happen.
Were the batteries low? It should give me a message about low batteries. I didn’t try it with my own new batteries, rather than the ones that came with it.
Rating: 1 / 5
This scale is a holiday gift for my husband. I just got it in the mail and had to try it out. I love it. The ability to light the display screen when needed and the pull out digital display unit make it a unique scale. Well worth the price. Especially for my husband, who rarely uses a measuring cup, but weighs everything on a kitchen scale. He loves to bake. He even has a second cousin from Norway, who is a world class chief. We have an older model scale, by Tanita. While it works fine, it doesn’t include any of the features I just mentioned that make this scale the gem that it is.
Rating: 5 / 5
This was a gift for my daughter. She has tried several food scales, but never found one that suited her needs. She is thrilled with this scale
OXO Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display, and says that she will never buy another brand.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have one of these scales and I have purchased two as gifts. They work great. I have had mine over two years now and it still works great. The best part of the scale is that I can place my container on the scale and then re-set it to zero. That way I can tell the weight of what is in the bowl, not the bowl and the ingredients together.
Rating: 5 / 5
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