We used to review the KAGO food scale here, a small stainless steel digital kitchen scale. It isn’t available on Amazon UK any more, so this is what we’d buy instead. A kitchen scale is one of those things where you don’t need anything clever: it needs to be accurate, easy to read and easy to wipe clean.
The pick: Amazon Basics Digital Kitchen Scales
The Amazon Basics Digital Kitchen Scale is about as dull as kitchen kit gets, and that’s the point. It has a stainless steel platform, a large LCD screen and a tare button, and it’s rated 4.6 stars from over 117,000 reviews on Amazon UK. That’s a lot of people baking a lot of cakes without complaint.
- Weighs from 2g up to 5kg (11lb)
- Grams, ounces and pounds
- Tare button, so you can zero it with a bowl on top and add ingredients one after another
- Batteries are included in the box
Who it suits: pretty much anyone who bakes, cooks from recipes, or wants to portion food more carefully.
The honest downside: it weighs in 1g steps. The KAGO measured down to 0.1g, which matters if you weigh coffee for espresso or tiny amounts of yeast or spices. For that sort of precision you’ll want a dedicated jewellery-style or coffee scale. For everyday cooking and baking, 1g is plenty.
Runner-up: HomeFashion 5kg Digital Kitchen Scale
The HomeFashion 5kg Digital Kitchen Scale is a good alternative if you’d like a backlit screen. It also weighs up to 5kg in 1g steps, adds ml and fl oz to the usual units, and has an 18 by 14cm stainless steel platform. It’s rated 4.5 stars from over 9,000 reviews on Amazon UK, and it comes with its two AAA batteries.
Which one?
Either will do the job well. The Amazon Basics scale has the bigger track record. The HomeFashion is the one to pick if you often measure liquids and like the backlight.
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