Review on ☕ TIMEMORE Coffee Scale, Espresso Scale with Timer and 2000 Gram Capacity in Black - Weigh Digital Scale by Tim Wilson

The entire scale industry suffers from algorithmic problems, not only with coffee scales but also with personal and kitchen scales. The internal programming uses strain gauges and average values to generate a weight that we can read. Frustration comes from delays and postponements before they give us the desired outcome. Higher scales, including those for commercial and scientific use, are faster and more reproducible. Consumer and cheaper options tend to mitigate accuracy issues, rounding large amounts up or down to represent something most people don't even notice. Enter us coffee snobs who want to turn variables into constants. Simply the most annoying people in the world demanding professional results at the lowest possible price for a niche use that may not even have a product for what we want. Not only do we want accuracy, but we want it to be fast enough that it can measure the amount of liquid being poured as it gains weight so we can stop the flow when it arrives and be small enough to fit between a port filter. and the grate of our selected espresso machine. A good and reliably accurate scale can completely rule this out, simply because it is not fast enough. This scale. Black Mirror is SO close to delivering it all but leaves just a bit of irritation. It has features that you may need. He has an appearance. It has some precision enough for our needs, but it's a bit unique. For example, if you turn on the scale, zero it, and put an item on the scale, it won't even register until the item weighs 0.5 grams. They acknowledge this and emphasize that this is because they don't want the scales to falter while they sit still. I'm saying if it's not a precision issue to begin with then you shouldn't have taken responsibility for it if I want to see every change. Second, the tare function is not repeatable, as is the case with so many scales. Again, this is a side effect of rounding up and down in programming. It's easy to get the scale to simulate a return to zero even if it's off a bit, but not so much when it's in tare mode as you've just created a situation where they aren't faking it can. When you weigh something, note its weight, tare and remove that item, the scale should display the item's weight in negative form. This is often not the case and can deviate by 0.3 grams. The repetition of 0.3 is very noticeable on this scale. It also appears to be a factor very similar to the 0.5 threshold at the start of the weight that seems to persist throughout its use. Namely; It doesn't move until it registers a 0.3 gram change, but if you add, for example, a coffee bean (about 0.1 gram weight) and THEN press the scale, it successfully weighs 0.1 change and adds it to the weight , even if it is not recalculated until the threshold of 0.3 has been reached. Fingers to lift the weight for just enough time to induce the recount boost presumably required for the recount. Total 0.3 before recalculation. This creates an annoying one-way street when you outweigh when you say you have 50.9 grams and you wanted exactly 51. You add a few more beans so it doesn't register, add a few more and force it , going to 51.2 only to then remove 2 beans again (even the same beans) and you press , which this time correctly measures and sets the desired weight (51). This means that the accumulated weight now, frankly, does not trust you. You know the two beans you added were supposed to add weight, but they didn't, so stop trusting the scale as much as possible. objects and then tap the scale to push them like a person with OCD. I shouldn't have done that. This is unacceptable. I have to help him and he also annoyingly shows he is capable of such accuracy but was only limited by again failing to show a fluctuating weight. It's a real shame as it's just a mindless fake protective illusion shell pretending to be the exact cure if we want to see results, warts and all, even if deflected in real-time like Acaia Lunar does. You can tap the table and everything will jump from the weight. It's what we want and need here, and you've removed it as a beauty filter factor. However, Acaia Lunar costs 4 times more than this one. Lunar is also much more responsive. The timer is fine and will work, but you'll see the difference when it's time to turn off the water. There is a slight lag as he continues to add weight. I think the company could fix that and make it the Acaia Lunar Killer. And so he's not that good, for seemingly insignificant reasons to show off. Very very close. But at this price I'm still staying here, understand these are cons and live with it instead of spending 4x more just because. it's good enough Compared to conventional kitchen scales, this is difficult to rate with 3 points. They are MUCH better and faster than them and would otherwise get 4 points. In the world of coffee scales who have to do what they have to do, 3 is fair because it stops short of reaching its goal just to keep numbers from jumping around and I find that very frustrating.