Walmart carries a great digital scale for twenty dollars. It is with the
kitchen gadgets. I have been using mine for several years. I can read the
readout fine with large bowls on it.

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Melodie Bond

"Mike" > wrote in message
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> Staples and Office Depot - and possibly others have scales, the one I
> bought has a "hold" button. This is good for weighing 'static' weights,
> not weighing while adding ingredients. It also has a 'set-zero' function
> so you can set to zero with the (empty) bowl on the platform.
>
> mike
>
> Dick Margulis wrote:
> >
> >
> > fedup wrote:
> >
> >> These scales are available in the lobby of any Post Office that has a
> >> postal store. The office I work in has them for $35 and $45. I don't
> >> think they are real good for baking though due to the small size of
> >> the scales. Once you got a bowl on the scale you wouldn't be able to
> >> see the digital readout.
> >> Daddio
> >>
> >
> > Where's your imagination, Daddio? You use a polished stainless steel
> > bowl and you read the weight in the reflection.
> >
> > No, seriously, are these scales configured any differently from any
> > other postal-type scale? Is the readout more horizontal and less
> > oblique? Is the platform smaller? If not, then I think most of us have
> > gotten used to reading them, one way or another. However, you're right
> > that it is a design problem on this type of scale in general. On some
> > models of large parcel scale, the readout is a separate unit, connected
> > by a cord to the platform, that you can mount on a wall at a convenient
> > height. Someone should design a small postal/kitchen scale with a
> > detachable readout, too.
> >


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