OXOBrew 6 Lb. Precision Coffee Scale with Timer, Black

Don’t listen to the negative reviews. I worked as a barista at one of the top coffee programs in the USA. There, we used Acacia chemistry-grade scales that cost $190. Will a $30 scale live up to the quality of one 6x the price? No. Is this a spectacular solution for the home barista? Absolutely. It’s hyper reactive, comes with a timer, and is very precise.If you’re brewing one-two cups of coffee at home a day, precision matters less than brewing 100 cups at a commercial location. Coffee is a living product and degases over time—affecting the extraction. If you’re worried about .1g dose when you’re never truly dialed in, you don’t understand the product enough to know why .1g might matter.

The Oxo Coffee Scale is magnificent accuracy for the money and basic features.It may not offer all the bells and whistles and sensitivity other scales offers (depending on the size of the coffee bean the scale may ignore or pick up added weight of bean), but what it does offer is basic good weighing and timing results. The weight it gives you is remarkably accurate with moving water for pour overs.This scale offers results, accuracy, and timing for people wanting to improve their coffee making without wondering how many coffees they will have to make to not feel like they paid too much.

I love OXO products in general, I have many kitchen tools from them which I think are exceptionally well designed and built. I think highly of them as a brand.Which is why I'm sad to say this scale is total crap.It claims 0.1g accuracy up to the max weight of 3kg/6lb. But the actual weights it reports are totally inconsistent and inaccurate. I can place something weighing ~800g on the scale, remove it, put it back on, and get two different numbers each time, a few whole grams off from each other. 0.1g increments are meaningless if the sensor isn't even consistent to within a whole gram at less than a third of it's max capacity.The sensors are also very "sticky" - I can put a container on the scale, zero it out, and start adding coffee beans to weigh out my dose, and see the display stick to one number even after I've added several gram's of beans. This is the only reason I even want 0.1g increments for coffee, to get more accurate doses.The consistency issues alone ruin the product, it fails at the only thing it needs to succeed at. But the rest of it isn't that great either. The "buttons" are just small pressure sensors under a plastic panel, there is no tactile indication of where they are or any feedback at all after you press them, and they take a weirdly long time to respond (like, press and hold for a full second).Just so disappointing.

Prior to this is used kitchen scales. They were supposed to be accurate to a gram. They were not, mainly because of the sensitivity. This usually end with using a lot of coffee beans and being way out on the quantity for espresso. Now I’m not an espresso snob, that demands 0.1g accuracy for Coffee shots. This scale does do .1 g accuracy and doesn’t cost hundreds of dollars. Anyway is good enough for me to get better coffee

I think this product is pretty much what you would need out of a coffee scale. .1 accuracy, clear display, timer, doesn't time-out after 1 minute, sleek design, etc. My only gripes (which are kind of small) are as follows:1. The scale will die without warning when the battery is low. Without a battery display telling you when you should expect the battery to be low, it will just die. If you're in the middle of your pour or whatever you're doing, you're screwed.2. Touch interface is not as responsive as I would like it to be. If you press too hard, the scale will think you're weighing something. You really have to have a certain touch to make sure you're pressing the button properly.

The OXO coffee scale works great.It lives up to the professional recommendation given by thetesters at Americas Test Kitchen which is what influenced me to buy it.

I usually find OXO items to be terrific, both highly functional and elegant. Biggest issue I found with this scale was that the button to change modes (ounces to grams) performed erratically, sometimes needed multiple pushes to change mode. Part of this is I think a design issue; the scale and platform are one unit, so each time you depress a button you also move the platform and whatever is on it, so it's hard to figure out how hard one needs to press. A byproduct of this is that when liquids are sloshing around while being weighed so does the weight reading. I also was not fond of separate readings for grams, one with decimal point and a separate one without, just made the scale harder to read quickly. Alas.

Pros:Large weighing area, easy to read, simple to clean, relatively quick to boot, and easy to use interface.Cons:Precision - The scale displays weight down to a tenth of a gram and it appears accurate, but the scale won't update until 0.5 grams have actually been added to the quantity being weighed. The effect is that the effective accuracy is 0.5 grams. Something that is explicitly a coffee scale where you'd like the ability to accurately weigh out single doses under 10 grams, with an advertised precision of 0.1 grams, that's unacceptable.Batteries - The scale takes 4 AAA batteries and these are inadequate. I need to replace them about every 2 months, about 6 times as often as scales from Escali or Greater Goods. I suspect this is because of the decision to extend the display all the way across the weighing area. This just adds a small crosshair at the center of the weighing area, which just gets covered anyway, draining the battery with no real benefit whatsoever.