EatSmart ESKS-10 Precision Elite Digital Kitchen Scale - 15 lb. Capacity, UltraBright Display and Stainless Steel Platform

EatSmart makes great scales. I have owned their EatSmart Precision Plus Digital Bathroom Scale for two years now and it is the most amazing bathroom scale I've ever seen. Super accurate and super thin. It sits in my bathroom right next to a door and the door just opens right over it without it ever being touched. Amazing.So when I was in the market for a new Kitchen Scale with a higher max weight than the 5 pound scale I currently owned, I was thrilled to find out that EatSmart made several. I first bought the EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale a week or so ago for $25. It is a great little scale with great precision and a good max weight of 11 pounds. The problem with the Pro is that it is so small, a dinner plate almost completely covers the numbers. Anything larger than that makes it impossible to see the numbers. I had to tare a bowl on the platform and then balance a large pot on top of the bowl to weigh it. It was driving me absolutely nuts within the first day. For anyone who needs a small scale, that one is great, but not for me.So that brings me to the EatSmart Precision Elite Digital Kitchen Scale for $40. Now this is the best of both worlds. Great accuracy, an even higher max weight, easy to read display, looks nice on the counter, and a much bigger platform. You can put just about anything on it and be able to see the numbers reasonably. I was able to put a huge 15 inch skillet on it and slide it back slightly and was still able to easily read the numbers. A dinner plate or large pot wouldn't even get close to covering the display. In addition, the buttons and screen are sealed which I would expect will contribute to a longer life. It is the perfect scale and easily worth the extra $15.Long story short, EatSmart makes great scales at a reasonable price. They last a long time in my experience and I've read over and over that their customer service is top notch. Luckily I can't comment on that because I have never had a problem with an EatSmart product in the 2+ years I've owned them. Five Stars! Highly Recommended!=========================UPDATE (12/05/2014):Just a quick update to let you know that I have been using this scale on a daily basis for almost two years now and it is still working perfectly. Still Highly Recommended!

I was looking for a scale to use in the kitchen when cooking and maybe the random package. In the kitchen I'll use it for weighting flour or other items when backing or to weigh meat as I'm always trying to guess how much meat I'm working with.PROs- Accurate down to the gram. I also bought a stainless steel calibration weight set and everything was precise. Although will admit I was focusing on the accuracy of the low end of the scale and didn't try weighing something heavy, like a 10lb weight. Maybe in the future.- Decent size surface area to set items on. I don't have it in front of me, but would say it's 6 inches by 7 inches. If weighing something large, like a roast, then I would put it in a bowl first.- Tare function (subtracting the weight of the bowl prior to weighing the meat) works great. Wouldn't buy a scale without that function.- Great weight range. Most of the time I'm weighing something less than 5lbs, but occasionally I'm weighing something much larger.- LCD view-ability. The face of the LCD is angled towards you, which makes it easier to read if you put bigger items on it.- Runs on AA or AAA batteries. I forget which one. The point being it uses a battery that is readily accessible, where some of the other models I considered ended up having batteries similar to a watch battery. I know some day I'll need the scale only to find the batteries dead. Most likely I'll have the AA's needed at the house already and don't want to go searching for a expensive watch battery.- Buttons are under the surface of the front panel, so they're more of a push-pad. I've seen other designs with real buttons and that leaves the option of food (i.e. flour, meat juices, etc) to get under the button, making it harder to clean and unsanitary. That can't happen with this one.- Great price and value.CONs- None really. My only concern thus far is maybe cleaning it if I spill something. The plate where you set items on the scale is a separate piece from base. They don't come apart, but they're separate pieces, which means there is space between them. You can see the seam between the LCD and the plate of the scale. If I was weighing something like flour and some spilled, it could very easily get between the weight plate and scale. That wouldn't be easy to clean if it did. It's hard to explain without seeing it. I also considered some other scales that were totally flat and all one piece, so the entire surface area was the weight plate and the LCD was built into it. But I read about too many drawbacks from reviewers: 1) They got inconsistent weights depending on where they placed the item on the scale (not good), and 2) since the surface is then flat, it can make reading the LCD harder for larger objects....meaning the object can cover the LCD all together.I researched a lot of scales and nothing seemed "perfect", but this one appeared to offer the best mix of options, design and functionality for a great price.

The scale operates just as it is advertised. I have used it twice so far for baking bread, and it makes measuring ingredients a snap. No need for measuring cups or worrying if the flour has compacted some while leveling. I start by putting the bread pan, with paddle inserted, on the scale and zero out the weight by briefly touching the TARE button. Then after putting a cup of hard, white, winter, wheat berries in my WhisperMill grinder and making the berries into flour, I dump the flour into the bread pan. At that point I can ignore the scale reading. My Panasonic bread maker calls for 14.75 oz. of flour for a small loaf of bread, so I add some store-bought unbeached bread flour into the pan until the scale says 14.75 oz. The scale works very quickly with no jerkiness in the reading, so it is very easy to add an ingredient up to a precise weight. Then I add a couple tablespoons of wheat gluten, some sugar, salt, and a small handful of whole millet for a little crunchiness. The scale keeps incrementing up, but the reading is not important at that point. Finally, I zero the scale again with the TARE button, and I add water until it reads 11.5 oz. The shortening then goes on top of that. The Panasonic breadmaker has a yeast dispensor so the last step is to add a teaspoon of yeast into the dispensor. All of these steps go very quickly. The scale has done its job. Wipe off the scale, and stow it on top of a large serving platter in the cupboard. No cleanup required for measuring cups, just the measuring spoons.If you want to make recipes with accurate measurements, I would highly recommend this scale. It is just the right size; it is very easy to read; the ability to easily do a zeroing after adding each ingredient works well; and it is a snap to clean it up after using it.The scale is a bit on the expensive side; but the design, size, readability, quality of materials, and the obvious workmanship in the scale make it a good buy, IMHO. BTW, I'm a 71 y/o retired guy who admits to being a wantabe mechanical engineer, and as such I think I am a pretty good judge of what is and what isn't a good product. And now after 25 years of making bread I think I have become pretty good at that as well. Enjoy.

This is my third or fourth kitchen scale, and even though I've only had it for two days, I absolutely love this one. I looked at so many descriptions of the various scales for sale on Amazon, and sorted out these differences.1) This scale has a 15-lb capacity, so you can use heavier bowls and plates than you could for one with a 5-lb capacity. Although some have 11-lb capacities, the extra 4 lbs offers a little ease of mind that you won't over-weight the scale.2) It's made of stainless steel - including the platform. If you look at a lot of other scales, they might say "chrome finish" or "silver color," and they might LOOK like they're made of metal, but they're really plastic. Stainless steel offers more ease of mind, like the extra weight capacity.3) It weighs in grams, ounces, and pounds, and switches easily among the three. Before you ask - if you set it to grams, the readout will automatically switch to kilograms/grams when it goes over 999 grams (so 1078 grams will read 1k78g), and it also switches to pounds/ounces when the weight is 16 oz or more. If you set it for pounds, it will read the ounces in decimals (fractions of a pound) rather than ounces. I assume it does the same thing for kilos, but I rarely weigh anything in kilos so I didn't check.4) the smallest unit is 1g. For me, this is a godsend. I've been weighing and measuring my food for several months, and prefer weight portioning to volume portioning. In other words, I'd rather weigh out an 80-gram portion of a fruit or veggie than try to figure out how much shredded lettuce fits into a cup measure. Many packaged foods indicate serving size by grams rather than ounces, which is curious, considering that in the U.S. we don't use grams. I used to whip out my smartphone and open up my conversion app to figure out how many ounces a serving size was, but now I just switch the scale to grams and I'm all set. Many nuts and fruit/nut combos say that 30g or 1 oz is a serving, but I actually have a cereal that says a serving is 53g. Now I can just weigh it out quickly and not worry about it.5) it uses regular AA batteries, which is soooooo convenient.6) it's sensitive to changes in weight when you add tiny amounts. On my old scale, I would weigh out my cat's medication, and it was supposed to be precisely 0.5 oz. It would get to 0.4 and I'd add, and add a little more, and add a little more, and it would still read 0.4, and suddenly it would read 0.7. So I'd subtract a little, and then a little more, and then a little more, well, you get the picture. The EatSmart scale reads out to 0.05 oz, so it's much more precise than my old scale.7) it's a decent price. At about $37, it's not cheap, but for the sturdiness of it (and it is a very sleek and pretty looking item) and the fact that you can use a fairly large bowl or even a large plate without losing sight of the LED display is worth the extra money. And it's not as expensive as some of the fancier ones priced at $60 or more.One minor gripe. The LED display seems a little sluggish in response to the button presses, but it's just a matter of getting used to the timing of it. On the other hand, the display is quite big and bold. The buttons have icons rather than labels on them, so, if you're like me, ahem, MATURE (read: old) enough to remember when we didn't need picture symbols to tell us what something was meant to be, you might want to just doublecheck the user's manual. The button the left is the unit switch (grams, ounces, etc) and the button on the right is both the on/off and the tare button.For those of you who don't know how to work the tare - put your plate or bowl on the platform and press the on/off button. The platform sets itself to 0 so the only thing you're weighing is what you put on the plate. The tare button will work regardless of whether you put the plate on before or after you turn the unit on.So. Bottom line. I love my new scale.

The EatSmart Precision Elite features a modern and attractive design and an easy to read backlit LCD. Build quality is very good but leans towards the light duty side with its thin plastic case. The easy to clean stainless steel tray makes it look more expensive than it is but is large enough to hold a mixing bowl or medium sized USPS Flat Rate box. It takes a simple button press to toggle between metric and imperial weight or a press and hold to set TARE.I found the EatSmart to be very accurate down to 1 gram and ideal for general kitchen and postal use. It is not a lab or trade accurate scale so no fractions of a gram or mg gradations. My only complaint is it lacks a data hold feature and when large plates or boxes cover the LCD it's tricky to see the LCD. I couldn't find a calibrate to a known weight feature in the manual but hopefully it stays accurate forever...All in all an excellent general use kitchen and postal scale: attractive, easy to use, inexpensive and accurate to a gram.