Bathroom/electronic scales

[Alan]

But who weighs themselves every 30 seconds? My cheap digital scales go through a reset and zero calibration cycle before you can stand on them.

[D.M. Procida]

People whose scales gave a different result a few moments ago, and who are trying to work out what's wrong with the bloody things.

Daniele

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (D.M. Procida) saying something like:

Simple. Get on your scales. Read your weight. Get off your scales. A week later, get on your scales and repeat.

[Frank Erskine]

I would certainly avoid Salter electronic _kitchen_ scales. They give totally inconsistent readings when weighing out ingredients. The most annoying bit is that they switch themselves off after a few seconds. If you have to, say, open another bag of flour to weigh a particular mass, the scales turn themselves off so that you have to start all over again. If you select imperial measurements (as I prefer to do) they won't default to them - you have to select imperial each time you (re)switch on, which is so annoying. I contacted Salter and they don't seem to care - take it or leave it seems to be their attitude.

My personal preference for kitchen scales is Dualit mechanical - not cheap (or compact), but consistently reliable.

[Thomas Prufer]

And people buying scales, and preferably paying for the one that is oh-so-repeatable...

Thomas Prufer

[Mike Barnes]

Frank Erskine :

There's obviously some variation. I've been using the same Salter kitchen scales for about 15 years now. They've never been inconsistent. The switch-off time when the reading is non-zero is easily long enough to get and open a new bag of flour (I bake all our bread using a mixture of flours so if the problem existed I'd be aware of it). The imperial/ metric setting is retained when they power themselves off. They look good as new, work good as new, and I'm on only the second pair of batteries.

[It seems all wrong to keep writing "they" about what's obviously a singular object, but what else can I do?]