Digital scales

[Touchstone]

I have a problem with digital scales , when weighing multple hop amounts I never end up with enough for the last amount

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[Matt in Birdham]

Do you weight all the hops at the beginning, just to verify the total amount?
If you do, and its a scales issue, then I can recommend these ones. They seem incredibly accurate (I have a 100g calibration weight, which is always bang on), and they are dirt cheap. The only issue I have had with them is that they do not automatically switch off, and I have accidentally turned them on by closing the lid a couple of times and come back to a dead battery..

[Dave S]

Do you weight all the hops at the beginning, just to verify the total amount?
If you do, and its a scales issue, then I can recommend these ones. They seem incredibly accurate (I have a 100g calibration weight, which is always bang on), and they are dirt cheap. The only issue I have had with them is that they do not automatically switch off, and I have accidentally turned them on by closing the lid a couple of times and come back to a dead battery..

I wonder if that is more or less annoying than the ones that switch themselves off before you've finished weighing.

[Matt in Birdham]

I wonder if that is more or less annoying than the ones that switch themselves off before you've finished weighing.

My kitchen ones do that, so I get the best of both worlds

[Doingatun]

I wonder if that is more or less annoying than the ones that switch themselves off before you've finished weighing.

Mine do that, don't give you any time...a real pain

[bigchris]

Mine always seem to turn off before I want them to. I've got two scales as well and they're both as bad as each other. REALLY REALLY annoying.

If I could find some that do NOT automatically turn off, and will weigh up to 5Kgs, then I'd buy at a reasonable price.

[MTW]

I have these, which resolve to a hundredth of a gramme, and seem damn accurate in my tests with coins, which at least confirms they're accurate to half a gramme. More than enough for hops! I bought them for tiny salt additions, but now use them for hops too. Amazing value. I even got given a fake pound coin, which was rejected by a parking meter. These showed it to be about 0.1g lighter than it should be, so I'm well happy with them. I'd get at least the 200g set, so you can tare/reset the weight of a plastic container before adding hops.

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[Capped]

Got mine from Aldi during one of those weekly specials for next to nowt, about 5 years ago. Still going strong and more accurate than I'll ever need of them. I mean, does it really matter if the hops are out by half a gramme??

[Matt in Birdham]

Got mine from Aldi during one of those weekly specials for next to nowt, about 5 years ago. Still going strong and more accurate than I'll ever need of them. I mean, does it really matter if the hops are out by half a gramme??

Hops, not so much, but useful for mineral additions where you could be talking about a gram or two.

[Capped]

Got mine from Aldi during one of those weekly specials for next to nowt, about 5 years ago. Still going strong and more accurate than I'll ever need of them. I mean, does it really matter if the hops are out by half a gramme??

Hops, not so much, but useful for mineral additions where you could be talking about a gram or two.

Good point!! I'm still in the dark ages on that and rely on increments of spoonfuls!

[Pinto]

Aldi Digital kitchen scales for malt and hops (0-3000g in 1g increments) and a set of drug-dealer "jewellers" scales for salts (100g on 0.01g increments) - ordered for a lovely chinese gent on ebay

For large malt bills, I may have to weigh out two quantities of malt, but it's hardly a trial.

[BrannigansLove]

I use a set of digital kitchen scales (accurate to 1g) for hops and malt, and digital jewellers scales for salts. Got the kitchen scales from Dunelm Mill, and the jewellers scales from Amazon.