Salter 1102 GNBLDR Electronic Kitchen Scale, Digital Weighing Scales, Multifunctional For Liquids/Fluids, Baking Gadget Print, 5kg Capacity, 15 Year Guarantee, Battery Included, Green, 23x17x1.5cm

These scales are just what I needed to accurately weigh food whilst dieting. The design is good, easy to use and they're accurate even when dealing with very low weights. My eye sight isn't great & I can read the display even without glasses.

Very light weight and beautiful colours, have not used it yet but I am sure I will enjoy it!

Great electronic kitchen scales. Has a nice glass design and the patterns on it are really nice and make it more interesting than the usual plain silver, white and black colours that most scales come in. It feels and looks good quality. It's also a great size, large enough surface to fit a large bowl on without blocking display yet small enough to fit nicely into a kitchen drawer - or sit unobtrusively on the worktop. Great that it measures weight as well as liquid and that you can set it to zero each time you want to weigh ingredients. Display is a good size so is easy to see and read and the soft buttons underneath are easy to access, particularly if you have a large measuring bowl on top. Have already used it several times. Great buy.

Scales have a mind of their own, they change from one measuring scale eg. ml to oz, g to oz during weighing ingredients, un relliable. Need to be returned.

The scales are very unstable as they keep dropping back to zero during weighing and you have to start all over again. They are also inaccurate - if you weigh the same item several times, they will show different weights each time. Waste of time!

The “Gadget” weighs up to 5 kgs, and by the gram. Some scales only go to 3 kgs, to the nearest 5 grams. Dimensions are about 230 x 170 x17 mm, weight a little over 500 g. Just one CR2032 battery is required and it comes pre-installed. The 15-year guarantee is welcome (hang on to your receipt).The controls are easy to use. They’re buttons rather than the touch controls found on some scales but that’s fine by us – no finger marks on the glass. Accuracy seems spot-on, assessed using loose vegetables weighed in the supermarket. The glass top is a single sheet that overhangs the base, so there are no traps for things like flour and it’s easy to keep clean.There’s no backlight for the display but that’s unlikely to be a problem and will make the battery last a lot longer.I’ve deducted a star because, unlike some similarly-priced scales, there’s no Pause function for weighing over-size items that prevent you seeing the display, e.g. turkeys and parcels. With Pause, the display is held when you remove the item from the scales. It’s something we use quite often with our old scales.There’s nothing clever or unique about “Aquatronic”. All it does is change the display to read ml instead of g. Since 1ml water weighs 1g and 1 litre weighs 1 kg, you simply need to weigh liquids and treat grams as millilitres. That isn’t true of all liquids, notably things like oil and syrup. “Aquatronic” won’t help with those because it has no idea what’s on the scales. We’ve made our own table of liquid weights, so that we can weigh all liquids rather than having to dirty measuring spoons/jugs. E.g. 1 tbsp. oil (15ml) weighs around 12g, 1 tbsp. honey weighs around 20g (1 tbsp. water weighs 15g).Overall, we’re pretty impressed. If you’re not bothered about a Pause function, you’re unlikely to do better, especially if you like one of the patterns offered.

SALTER DIGITAL KITCHEN SCALES REF: 1102A glass top set of kitchen scales measuring 17cms x 23cms with an attractive design.The instructions are simple enough but would have been even better with a diagram. initially I could not get them to work and thought it was a dud battery (2032) so I changed it. This was better - we had a display but the instructions for the front controls were misleading. There are two buttons hidden underneath the front edge with the words UNIT ON/ZERO on the glass top. The instructions say these front controls will a. switch on (and off) b. change the unit of measurement from grams to ounces and pounds, and for liquids between fluid ounces and millilitres and finally c. to zero (so that the scales will measure the contents of your mixing bowl rather than the weight of the bowl itself). It actually looks like these controls are "Touch" type on the glass but they are not being buttons hidden underneath. Once you realise this, it's plain sailing.The size is big enough to accommodate even a large mixing bowl whilst keeping the size of the unit workable and the zeroing function is particularly useful in that you can zero the scales at any time. This allows you to measure accurately individual ingredients as they are added. The digital display is clear and quite large at 25mm and should present no problems reading it. The maximum weight the scales will handle is a suggested 5 kilo.It was fortunate I had some spare 2032 batteries to get it working. It may also have been a loose contact in the battery housing either way it is something that should normally be tested prior to shipping.The unit carries a 15 year warranty - unusual these days but it says a lot about the confidence Salter have in their products. We have used Salter kitchen scales before without any issues and hope that continues.