Which Kitchen Scales ?

organic_wanabe

I am fed up with old and inaccurate scales, and my DH is fed up with me moaning! I suspect/hope that he is taking me up on my hints and buying me the Weylux Queen for my birthday next month. For you lucky owners of these scales, can you tell me how you store the weights? Also, are the scales very big as I presume they are heavy and so I would prefer to leave them on show all the time. Any info would be much appreciated.

Pitlanepiglet

Hubby had already ordered some of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/HANSON-H500-BLACK/dp/B000WDT556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1269040158&sr=8-1 with free postage and they are really nice and substantial.

I have a feeling that I have my grandmother's balance scales in a box somewhere. It's tricky to get at them at the moment as we're mainly in storage until we finish building. I'll try to find them and/or will have a look at the Car Boot sale at Easter.

It looked to me that the Weylux Queen scales don't come with the weights and you have to buy them at an extra £9 or so, is that correct?

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organic wanabe.

I use balance scales (very old - my father says they date from before the 2nd WW). They are quite heavy but I bake a lot so I have them in a corner on the worksurface and pull them a little closer when I need to weigh. The weights stack beside the scales. (I know that you can still buy stacking weights). My husband bought me a set of non stacking pebble shaped metric weights that I keep in the original tin.

I love my scales and would never use anything else. As you can see they are long lasting! Also I weigh off against the eggs for Victoria sponge mixes so I can just use the eggs as "weights". My sight is not too good but with balance scales this doesn't matter as I can see if they balance which is easier for me than reading a display.

katholicos

I recently purchased some new kitchen scales and for the first time I bought digital. I bought them when they were half price on the Russell Hobbs website and i got free delivery too. I had read a lot of reviews about them and so I am chuffed with them as they take up next to no space and any recepticle can be used on them to contain the ingredients being measured. I'm seriously impressed with them and because they are so accurate I have even made soap using them, though i cover them in a clear bag when i weigh the caustic soda.

Swan_2

organic_wanabe wrote: »

I am fed up with old and inaccurate scales, and my DH is fed up with me moaning! I suspect/hope that he is taking me up on my hints and buying me the Weylux Queen for my birthday next month. For you lucky owners of these scales, can you tell me how you store the weights? Also, are the scales very big as I presume they are heavy and so I would prefer to leave them on show all the time. Any info would be much appreciated.

the weights I have stack, I have both Imperial & metric, but at the moment they're in a small basket on my work top beside the scales, I keep the tinier ones in a plastic jar, although I still managed to lose my 1 gram weight when it fell down a crack in the floor in my old kitchen

I do the same as onewom & pull them forward when I want to use them

I'll post a pic of my scales with something for size reference beside it, so you'll get some idea
buut ... I'm on a borrowed pc just now (I spilled something on my laptop & it's currently in the final stages of rescue, all the keys are off drying after having been un-stickied) so it might be later today till I can get back with that, or maybe someone else can post one faster?

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

It looked to me that the Weylux Queen scales don't come with the weights and you have to buy them at an extra £9 or so, is that correct?

yes you do have to buy the weights separately, I had an Imperial set already so I only had to buy the metric ones, but I still think they're a great investment, no batteries, no springs, nothing to go wrong unless you actually manage to smash them, & miraculously they've managed to survive 20-odd years of me

Swan_2

got my lappy fixed sooner than expected spacebar'sactingupabitthough

the footprint is 29x33cm & they're18.5cm high


here's a pic of how much space the scales take up on a standard 600mm worktop, with baking powder tub for scale & bearing in mind space taken up by bean mountain behind

& here's one showing a better general look at the scales themselves, and scabby plaster after recent re-wire

Pitlanepiglet

I reallyyyyyyy want the British Racing Green and brass scales...yours look lovely Swan.

Will have to wait and see how the finances pan out after me trashing the car and we'll have a look at the boot sale and see what turns up for now x

Swan_2

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

I reallyyyyyyy want the British Racing Green and brass scales...yours look lovely Swan.

Will have to wait and see how the finances pan out after me trashing the car and we'll have a look at the boot sale and see what turns up for now x

although the label's almost worn away, they look as good as the day I bought them (when I've cleaned them up that is )

I bet the racing green looks great they only had white at the catering supplier where I got mine, & they were £70+ more than 20 years ago!

I think one of the reasons you can get them for £50 or so now is that they're probably more popular because apparently they're the scales Delia recommends but don't anyone buy them from that link! they're £95 without weights :eek: & they've no racing green

bex2010

Pitlanepiglet - There's a set of British Racing Green Queen scales including weights on E-bay at the moment (steel pan not brass thought) and they are at £30 already (ends tomorrow i think), so a bit cheaper but still quite pricey. But might be worth you keeping an eye out on there as well as boot sale as you never know what else might turn up.

Pitlanepiglet

bex2010 wrote: »

Pitlanepiglet - There's a set of British Racing Green Queen scales including weights on E-bay at the moment (steel pan not brass thought) and they are at £30 already (ends tomorrow i think), so a bit cheaper but still quite pricey. But might be worth you keeping an eye out on there as well as boot sale as you never know what else might turn up.

I can't find them? Our car boot sales start again over Easter...I nearly bought some at the boot sale last year, there is a chap who seems to buy and sell them so fingers crossed he'll be there again!