Review on KitchenAid KQ900 Single Digital Inches by James Gibson

I am an avid cook and analytical chemist - I appreciate a good balance and use it often in my work. I bought this scale over (many) cheaper options because I like the idea of a double scale (if your recipe calls for 1g or 0.5g you won't get a good reading on a 10kg scale) and because they well built looking. Unfortunately built very cheaply. Yes, the weighing pans themselves are metal, but they're not removable, so cleaning them is a chore (seriously, who designs scales like this?). The scale's body is made of thin plastic, which is disappointing for a $50 scale when there are so many cheaper options. Also, the scale will automatically turn off after a minute without changing the weight, which really isn't enough when you need to grab an ingredient from the pantry or look up your recipe. I like that it's easy to switch between units and buoyancy is easy, but overall I wouldn't buy it again. Update: My scale is almost 6 months old; About 4 months later it started doing what automatically switched to grams within a few seconds of turning it on and the smaller scale went into calibration mode. I can't exit calibration mode or change units of measurement, and the power button on the scale doesn't work; I have to remove the battery to turn the scale off (for better or worse, the auto shutoff no longer works). It also makes the small scale useless. Based on my experience with this scale I would not recommend it to anyone and downgraded this rating from 2 stars to 1. Very disappointing that Kitchenaid put their name on a product like this.