Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale Review
Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale, White
The Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale is an amazing piece of equipment for your kitchen loaded with features. It’s small size is a space saver on the kitchen top, can easily fit into a drawer, or is ideal for traveling with. The scales measurements are as follows: 6-¾ by 7-½ by 1 ½.
The Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale features a round 5-¾-inch diameter weighing plate which can easily be cleaned with a damp cloth or a gentle cleanser. It is both stain and flavor resistant, so there’s no need to worry about flavors carrying over when weighing directly on the scale as long as you clean it between ingredients.
This salter scale can weigh up to 5 pounds or 2 kilograms. There’s a handy conversion switch so that you measure in either metric or imperial without having to grab a calculator and do the conversions yourself. This makes the Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale a great gift for the chef that’s constantly on the go.
On top of easy conversion, the Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale has many other features including the popular add and weigh feature, auto shut off to conserve batteries, auto zero, and an easy to read 0.4” LCD display. With the Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale you can weigh in any bowl or container by simply placing the container on top of the scale and pressing the power button to reset the scale to zero. How handy is that?!
Additional product specifications include:
- English manufacturer.
- Weighs in 1/8 ounce or 2 gram increments
- Low battery indicator
- 10-year warrant included.
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(out of 86 reviews)
Price: $45.00
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Review by Todd V. Leone for Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale, White
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I love this compact, flat little scale. Living in a very small city apartment with a tiny kitchen, I hang the scale on the wall when I’m not using it — it has a key-hole shaped hole in the back so it goes right on a wall hook. That keeps it where I can find it in an instant and its low profile means it doesn’t protrude when hanging.
Especially great is its simple control design. One button turns it on and zeroes it out. I can put any container on it, such as a bowl, a cup, a measuring pitcher, or a sheet of waxed paper or a paper towel, press the on/zero button and then add the ingredient I’m weighing until I get the desired amount.
One thing I really like is the other button that toggles between grams and ounces. These days, nutrition information on foods is given in set portions on the package — and the portion size is always accurately given in grams. Therefore, when following the Weight Watchers program and I’ve decided how much of some dry ingredient I want to consume, I can determine the portion size in grams and weigh it accurately. That’s true for something like a frozen dessert — the weight of a portion of ice cream, for example, reduced fat or otherwise, is easy when spooning it into a bowl on this scale, but to measure 1/2 cup by volume is difficult, and approximate to begin with.
Some other, similar, scales, have a grams/ounces slide switch on the bottom and that makes switching back and forth between grams and ounces a chore. This one does it with one touch.
With recipes, if the weight of dry ingredients is given in ounces or grams, it’s way easier and more accurate to weigh them than to try to measure them by volume and this scale makes that process a breeze.
This scale also works perfectly for weighing outgoing mail to determine extra postage.
The scale has a time-out feature that turns it off after a short period of non-use. So you don’t have to turn it off when you’re done — in 30 seconds it will shut itself off. If you’re weighing some ingredients, each addition of weight will keep it on, so rarely will it time out during use.
Battery life is lengthy — I’ve had mine for almost two years and the batteries are still working. I use it all the time and couldn’t be happier with the product.
Review by Michelle Thompson for Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale, White
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I purchased this unit several months ago from a home store. After a few weeks it started acting up. I would turn it on and the numbers would start jumping around randomly before I put anything on it. I would have to remove the batteries and re-insert them to get it to stop, but even that didn’t always work. I purchased new batteries, same problem.
I use it all the time and when it works I love it. But there have been times I’ve been so frustrated at it not working that I’ve wanted to chuck it against the wall!
I took it back to exchange it and my new one does the same thing. I read in the directions to hold the “on” button until the screen comes on, I do that and it still acts up.
EDIT: I learned it is the microwave that was causing my problem. If there is a microwave nearby running that somehow interferes with the unit and causes the problem I described above. If my microwave is not running it works like a dream. I think Salter should do a better job of informing the customer of this, like a little insert taped to the top of the item that alerts us to the issue, would have saved me time, frustration and gas.
Review by J. Brown for Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale, White
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Overall this is a fine scale. One “convenient” feature is an auto zero function. If the scale has been tared and the tare weight removed, rather than displaying a negative weight, the scale automatically re-zeros. This may be handy most of the time, but sometimes it’s a pain. With my old scale, I could tare a partially filled bowl, remove the bowl from the scale, add more goodies, and place it back on the scale to determine the weight of the additional material. That doesn’t work with this scale–it rezeros when a tared weight is removed.
Review by Kerecsen Tamas for Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale, White
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I am completely satisfied with this scale. It turns on quickly, measures accurately and stays on long enough (I’ve never had the turn-off problem the other reviewer complains about).
I will never go back to mechanical scales, the added precision and convenience is well worth the extra 15-20 bucks.
Review by Pen for Salter 5-Pound Microtronic Kitchen Scale, White
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I had a dial type scale before this electronic one and I just LOVE this one so much!! It switches easily from grams to ounces and the read out is immediate and accurate. The best feature is that you can put a bowl or cup on the scale and reset the scale to zero. Then you can add your items and measure just the weight of the item added! If you need to add more items to the same bowl, simply reset to zero again and it will only measure the additional items. No more measuring in one dish and putting it into another. Saves on additional dishes to wash! I am on Weight Watchers and it has made measuring so much easier and more exact. No more guessing if I have a cup of something, I can simply measure the exact gram weight and know I haven’t “rounded up” with the traditional measuring cup! This item was definitely worth the money. I LOVE it.
Help! How do I change the darned battery? There’s a small thing that contains the batteries but there doesn’t seem to be any way at all to open that thing up!