Recommend some kitchen scales

[satans worm]

Hi
My digital scales died and so I am looking to buy new ones.
Thought it would be easy but it seems I'm wrong, so many are reviewed ( on Amazon) by people who get them for free ( and so surprise sunrise give them 5 stars) but all the low star ratings ( i.e. People who actually bought the product) seem to complain about irregular weighing accuracy with many just dieing in the first 6 months.
Happy to spend more than the gbp20 that the sleek but bad ones are, and get a reliable brand that may not look so cool but does the job reliably for years.
So anyone out there who can advise on this incredibly mundane request?

Edited by satans worm on Wednesday 13th January 02:51

[21TonyK]

I asked some time back with no real consensus. Kids ended up buying me the dual platform Heston ones made by Salter.

10kg in 1g increments on one platform and 200g in .1g on the other. Perfect for me doing batch cooks and dish development.

Also, big bonus for me is they run on normal AAA batteries, not watch batteries.

So far they seem perfectly fine, I would imagine from Salter they are going to be reasonable quality (for £50) and accuracy seems good and consistent.

[calibrax]

I bought these a few years ago, and can't fault them. Under £15 and a well known brand as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000ZNM51O?psc=...

[JungleJim]

Have got a digital one from Teraillon. No complaints.

[Murph7355]

I have the version of these that they were selling getting on for 20yrs ago:

https://www.dualit.com/products/kitchen-scales

Never had to change batteries and they work very nicely

[Riley Blue]

Salter 1066 - around £15 or less, have lasted me seven years so far, only changed the batteries once.

[Digger]

Salter Disc here. Admittedly only used for fairly basic needs, but I'm happy with it.

[satans worm]

well no one seems to have had bad experience with the home kitchen ones so maybe the reviews are unfortunate.
I'll go the cheap route, and if they do break next time I'll get the expensive commercial ones.
I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a must get 'rolls Royce ' of kitchen scales out there to buy that I didn't know about
Thanks for your replies

[karona]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SilverCrest-Nutrition-Scal...
'er indoors swears by this, it stores nutritional values of 900 different foods. Weigh the food, dial in a code, and it gives the calories, carbs, fat, etc for that amount. If you're following a recipe it stores the individual values, and gives a total for the finished recipe.

However, without the centimetre-thick code reference book it's just a kitchen scale.

Out of stock on Amazon, we got ours in Lidl for about 8 quid.

[rsbmw]

If I were that way inclined, I'd rather just stick "calories in 100g of X" into google than have to look up a reference in a book. Seems an overkill function on some simple kitchen scales.