HollyKing's Journal

The weather has turned and I've been bitten by the baking bug again. I picked a new recipe to try, restocked the pantry, cleaned the counters and started to gather the ingredients. I put the first one, 2oz of butter, on my scale and it read 3/4 oz. I know it wasn't a full 4oz stick but that sounded a bit light to me. So I pull out the next, untouched 4oz stick, and weigh it. The display read 1 7/8 oz, which is way too light. Great, my scale seems to be broken. Maybe I'm lucky and it's simply a weak battery. Maybe it was dropped or something when I wasn't around and no longer reads true. Either way it halts my plans for the day.

Being frugal I'll try a new battery first. If that doesn't work I'll be in the market for a new scale. I've a few requirements for my next scale that my old one didn't have. Mainly higher capacity and a more stable base. This one can't weigh enough for some of the recipes I want to make and isn't very stable due to it's small center column that connects the plate to the control unit on the bottom.

The geek inside of me says I should spring for a balance scale and some accurate weights but as cool as it would be it's overkill for baking.