The Escali Primo is the best inexpensive kitchen scale: 11 lb capacity, 1-gram readings and a display that stays on. Reviewed named it best value; one reviewer's three-year-old scale still matched a new one. It can't read in tenths of a gram.
Key specs
| Escali Primo | |
|---|---|
| Price | About $27 |
| Capacity | 11 lb (5 kg) |
| Readability | 1 g, 0.05 oz |
| Units | g, kg, oz, lb |
| Power | Batteries |
| Warranty | See Escali |
| Notable | Display stays on |
Using it
11 lb (5 kg) capacity in 1 g or 0.05 oz steps. Two buttons, a compact footprint and a display that doesn't time out mid-batch.
Test results
Reviewed named it best value. A reviewer's three-year-old unit matched a new one with no fluctuation.
Price
About $25 to $30 at major retailers when we checked.
Using it for sausage
Weigh meat and fat on a kitchen scale, then weigh salt, spices and curing salt by percentage of the meat. See how to use curing salt and how to make sausage.
This review is based on Escali's published specifications and on independent tests where they exist; we name whose test each finding comes from. We haven't run our own timed tests on this model yet and will add hands-on notes when we do.
Questions
Escali or OXO?
The OXO's pull-out display is easier to read under a big bowl. Otherwise the Escali does the same job for half the money.
Does it read in 0.1 g?
No. For curing salt, add a 0.01 g pocket scale.
