How to read a kitchen scale

Introduction

Cooking and baking with ingredients that you have carefully weighed using the kitchen scales will result in delicious meals. However, if you do not know how to properly read the results of your kitchen scale, then it would underperform. This article will teach you how to use a kitchen scale.

Understanding your kitchen scale

Before starting to use a kitchen scale, there are some basic functionalities you need to know about it. Most of these scales have two major functions: measuring weight (in grams, ounces, pounds etc.) and zero (restoring the reading on a scale to zero). To get comprehensive details on this matter refer back to your user’s manual.

How to read a kitchen scale

1. Turn on the scale: Sometimes you may find an on button which powers the digital weighing machine when pressed.

2. Zero: When weighing ingredients contained in a bowl or any other object, first put them into it before pressing ZERO key so as to reset the display reading to zero. Therefore, you are only including what has been added since last reset excluding that one for utensils.

3. Measure the ingredients: Gradually add more ingredients into the bowl or container while observing changes in weight on screen of this weighing machine. Further additions could be made until desired readings are obtained.

4. Unit conversion (if necessary): The change of units is easy with most scales.

Conclusion

Knowing how to read a kitchen scale can significantly improve your cooking and baking skills because recipes require precise measurements for good results. You will wonder why it ever took so long for you start using a food scale once you have gotten used it as they are cheap and useful equipment in preparing dishes. Enjoy!