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Default Digital Scale - a recommendation

On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:18:28 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:01:53 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 1, 11:21*am, Melba's Jammin' >
>> wrote:
>> > I love my Escali Primo Digital Scale. *Amazon has it for ~$23.50. *
>> > Target carries it, too. *It's been a champ for several years. *It has a
>> > tare feature, weighs pounds, ounces (in tenths), and grams. *
>> > --
>> > Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
>> > Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
>> > "Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."http://web.me.com/barbschaller, updated May 27, 2011

>>
>> I've had mine for 3 years and it's just as accurate today as it was
>> when I first got it.

>
>How do you know? Just asking.


It's so easy to test scale accuracy that even you can do it... simply
place something of known weight on the scale, weighing standards is
how the Bureau of Weights and Measures check scales. Haven't any of
yoose ever been to the market and seen the scales being checked, in
large markets the BW&M tech checks all the scales daily.