Who owns a Food Scale?

Are they very useful to you?

Where can I get one and how much are they?

thanks 

I got one for $20- you can find them online or in department stores.

It's extremely useful. I can constantly reset the scale and use one bowl to measure and mix things together without having to make several measuring cups dirty.

YESSSSS VERY useful.  I have digital one i got for $35 at sears.  I weigh  ALL my food to get accurate calorie counting!!!!!!!

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I have one, and I think it's VERY worth it.
I think I got it for around $10-$15 dollars at the grocery store.
You can find really cheap ones, but I always wish I would save enough money to invest in a digital food scale.. that would be amazing. But otherwise, the manual ones are great (:!

I actually got one for christmas and it does not want to work. I have been using an old school one and wanted a digital one. I would definitely say to get one.

I'm thinking about getting one for the last 10 lbs  (another 10-15 lbs from now). So far I've been using measuring cups/spoons but not weighing.

I got one a digital one at WalMart for like 10-15 dollars

I bought one on Amazon.com for $25 with free shipping.  It is very useful for determining portion size.  For example, I never knew 3 ounces of meat was so much food.  I always thought it would be a smaller amount.  On the other hand a 90-calorie serving of Grapes (138 Grams) was a much smaller amount of food than I thought it was.  I consider my food scale a necessity for calorie-counting purposes.

Get a digital version with a Tare function.

Tare allows you to zero out the weight of the container the food is weighed on.

I got one with a tare function and I think it's great. I'm really bad at guessing the weight of a portion of food so it keeps my calories acurate. I recommend it. :)

I couldn't live without mine!  Got it at Bed Bath and Beyond for about $50--but they had cheaper versions as well.  I just really wanted the digital one with all the special functions. 

When I started using CC I bought one and have been using it ever since.  It is not a digital one but it does the trick and I don't know how I would keep track accurately on this site with out it.  I do love it and it has really helped to teach me portion size.

I got mine at ww.  I just walked in and bought that I wasn't a member.  I find it very useful. 

Twice a week I cook chicken and I measure out 3 ounce portions and store them in my frig.  (Not digital)

 

I got my Salter digital scale at Kitchen Kapers and paid about $40 for it.  There's a grams to ounces conversion and also liquid conversion.  The tolerance is 5 grams or 1/4 ounce.

It's indespensible.  I like the flat weighing surface because I can put my plate or bowl right on it as I'm serving or mixing.  I put the plate or mixing bowl on and zero it out, then add each food, zero it out and add the next thing. 

I have the most basic that I could find - it was $4.29 at Linen's n Things.

I agree with what everyone else has said, it is really eye opening to see what you have been misjudging and which measuring cups are inaccurate. For instance, 1 ounce of Cheerios (1 cup according to the box) goes quite a bit past the one cup mark on my measuring cup. My scale has a dial so you can use any container and set it to zero before adding the food.

I love mine too! Not sure what kind, although my DH says it's the same one Alton Brown uses, it's digital and has a tare function. I bought mine at a head shop ***looks around sheepishly*** I think it was around 20-30 bucks.

I got mine for about $7 bucks at Target.  Love it!

Mine is extremely useful, it's got a lot of bells and whistles that i love, but it was pretty expensive $50, however i had a cupon and a gift card so it only cost me 14 dollars! I use it not only for weighin food but for more percise measurments when baking. Best 14 bucks ive ever spent.