[trains are bad]

I understand that in parts of Europe, recipes tend to be given on a weight basis rather than a volume basis like I'm used to here in the US. Furthermore, my German friend informs me that tricked-out digital kitchen scales with tare functions and dietary information and built-in recipes are common kitchen appliances. This sounds like a very nerdy thing to have. Any ideas where I could get such a device?

 

[majid]

I have a Salter one that I bought from Sur La Table to replace my dead Terraillon. You should be able to find them at Williams-Sonoma or Amazon.com. Skip the nutrition info mumbo-jumbo, all you want is a basic digital scale with a tare (so you can put a bowl on the scale and pour the ingredients directly into it).

 

[trains are bad]

The built-in recipe thing looked really cool, but I don't seem to find anything like that available. In the case where I buy a tare-able scale, all my recipes (by which I mean all my wife's recipes) become obsolete since most of them do not list the weights.

 

[john_jcb]

I would not worry about built in recipes; too limiting. Here is the scale I have and a site that has more scales than you know existed.

My Weigh iBalance 5000 (i5000)

 

[mark2410]

dont all digital scales have a tare function?

cant think why you would want one that has dietry info as any method of inputting date or extracting it cant be great but oh well. have a prod arround amazon id say they sell most stuff. amazon.de maybe?

 

[Bob_McBob]

I use this digital scale. It has pretty much every feature I could want in a kitchen scale. The pull-out display and backlight are extremely handy.