Frank Erskine :
I would certainly avoid Salter electronic _kitchen_ scales. They give
totally inconsistent readings when weighing out ingredients. The most
annoying bit is that they switch themselves off after a few seconds.
If you have to, say, open another bag of flour to weigh a particular
mass, the scales turn themselves off so that you have to start all
over again. If you select imperial measurements (as I prefer to do)
they won't default to them - you have to select imperial each time you
(re)switch on, which is so annoying.

There's obviously some variation. I've been using the same Salter
kitchen scales for about 15 years now. They've never been inconsistent.
The switch-off time when the reading is non-zero is easily long enough
to get and open a new bag of flour (I bake all our bread using a mixture
of flours so if the problem existed I'd be aware of it). The imperial/
metric setting is retained when they power themselves off. They look
good as new, work good as new, and I'm on only the second pair of
batteries.

[It seems all wrong to keep writing "they" about what's obviously a
singular object, but what else can I do?]

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Mike Barnes