Great Scale for Cooking and For Watching Your Weight

Cuisinart KS-55 Weight Mate Digital Kitchen Scale

There used to be a commercial that said (of prunes, no less), "Is two enough? Is three too many?" It may be easy to count your prunes and bowls of All-Bran, but have you ever tried eyeballing six ounces of pasta or three ounces of cream cheese? So many recipes giving measurements in weight instead of volume, we decided a kitchen scale was pretty much a necessity. That’s why a Cuisinart KS-55 Weight Mate Digital Kitchen Scale now lives on our kitchen counter.

What’s to like about a Cuisinart KS-55

It’s small, with a footprint of about 5½ by 8 inches. With a capacity of 11 pounds (5 kilograms), it can weigh just about anything you’d need to weigh in a residential kitchen. It displays weight in grams or pounds and ounces, and allows you to toggle between systems.  It has a large, clear LCD digital readout; 5/8" letters on a ¾" screen. It’s quite accurate, whether you’re weighing a package for mailing or a bunch of grapes. The 5½-inch square tempered glass top has a tight-fitting, dishwasher-safe stainless steel sheath for weighing wet stuff. The KS-55 has just two buttons: ON/OFF and MODE/TARE. They’re covered by a membrane to prevent the scale’s innards from getting wet or dirty and make cleanup easy. Pressing MODE/TARE toggles between Imperial and Metric units. You can hold it down for a couple of seconds to zero the scale to exclude the tare. This feature lets you weigh one ingredient, zero out the scale, then weigh a second so you need not empty a bowl or uncover the platform. Putting a container on the scale before turning it on automatically sets the tare weight. The KS-55 uses 2 AAA batteries; we've had more than three year's use without replacing them. A battery-saver feature shuts off the display after a minute or two.

Overall, this little scale has been a welcome addition to our kitchen. We highly recommend a Cuisinart KS-55 to anyone who cooks, and especially recommend it to people who are watching portion size. You'd be amazed at how small three ounces of lean beef really is!

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