Kitchen scales
A kitchen scale is a scale used to measure ingredients for food . It is particularly needed to prepare cake batter . Nowadays it usually has a maximum load capacity of 500 g to 10 kg and an accuracy in the range 1 to 50 g.
Kitchen scales are mainly used when certain ingredients such as flour , sugar , edible fats have to be mixed in a certain ratio for the success of food and a mere estimate is not sufficient.
With yeast dough in particular, it is important to add baker's yeast to the exact gram , because with normal household dough quantities, even a small deviation can mean a high percentage difference and have a negative effect on the baking result. Precision is just as important when preparing coffee: "If 11 g of coffee are required for a cup and the scale deviates by 2 g, that corresponds to a deviation of 18%."
They are available in different construction principles. Up to the middle of the 20th century it was mainly used as a beam balance (most recently as a sliding weight beam balance), later it was mainly cheap spring balances that were used. Especially for the precise measurement of small amounts as part of a diet , diet scales were increasingly used as digital scales at the end of the 20th century .
Barrel weight balance
Spring balance
Digital kitchen scales
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Köstler: Six kitchen scales in the test. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .