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Review on πŸ“ Ozeri ZK14-S Pronto: The Ultimate Black Digital Multifunction Kitchen and Food Scale, 8.25 by Amy Smith

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Small food scale that works to two decimal places.

I bake bread at least every two weeks, sometimes more depending on usage and I'm always a little frustrated with the different sizes of loaves and boules. We generally have little space in the kitchen due to its size, so we are postponing the purchase of a kitchen scale. After the last time I baked bread, I decided it was time to look for a scale that was small enough for storage, yet offered the functionality to measure weight as accurately as possible. I looked at several different scales available from Revain and definitely wasn't interested in getting one that depended on the watch battery and also wanted one that wouldn't round numbers. These Ozeri Prontos have a small profile, use two AAA batteries (which came with the scale) and are accurate to +/- 0.1% based on testing found in another review of this product. This Ozeri Pronto food scale was used to make both English muffins and Black Canyon sourdough bread. The English muffin bread was broken into two pieces, and the Black Canyon bread was broken into six pieces. This time I baked three loaves of bread with our new Freshware CB-104RD 6-Cavity Mini Silicone Mold for soap, bread, loaf, muffins, brownies, cornbread, cheesecake, pudding and more, and broke the other three into six more pieces with a ham - Bake cheese filling. I've noticed two aspects of Ozeri's food scales that I don't see as a real issue, but thought I'd mention them. Firstly when I changed the bread and the tare was zero it shut off in less than two minutes as it seemed to me that it took me about 30 seconds but it could take a minute between removing a batter and stopping before the other was nearly put on the scales. Basically you need to make sure that any and/or all items you want to weigh are ready, otherwise you may need to turn them back on and set up the tare again. Another thing to note is that ounces change in increments of 0.03, which can make it almost impossible to get truly accurate measurements, but it's still pretty close. For the first time since making homemade bread, all the different loaves basically weighed the same when par-baked and looked about the same size. This Ozeri Pronto kitchen scale works well and I look forward to using it for years to come. If you are looking for a food scale for baking then this is a good buy. If you found this review "useful", please click the button below.

Pros
  • Easy to read control panel
Cons
  • Protection