NewLine Space Saver Digital Glass Kitchen Scale
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Product Reviews of NewLine Space Saver Digital Glass Kitchen Scale
Product Review: Works great - I like it
Summary: 5 Stars
This scale works -- right out of the box. I opened it up, put it on the counter and starting weighing my food. THe "tare" function works great and it could be improved by allowing a little more time to go by before resetting, but my estimate is it allows you about 20 seconds to replace the item on the surface of the scale. I use it in the gram/kilogram mode, the groceries usually have the # grams per serving in parentheses. You will know right away if you are going to eat more or less that one serving of food. And 1.5 servings equals 1.5 times the calories.Product Review: Works well.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a wonderful product. The only problem is its hard to put a large bowl on it.Product Review: does whats needed
Summary: 3 Stars
I needed a scale to help me measure foods for my new diet and it does come in handy for cooking too.
This scale does it's job and is acurate it just goes thru batteries like crazy. I wish it had a power cord
so I wouldn't be using so many batteries. But other then that it's a nice little scale.
Product Review: excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent product for the price. I didn't mount it to the wall, but it folds up against the wall with one hand and stays there just fine. Unfortunately requires two hands to fold it back down (one to hold the upper part in place and one to fold the scale area down). Nice to have another clock and temperature display to glance at around the house.
I gave it a perfect score mostly because I think you're getting a lot for the price, but it's not perfect though. Here are some fairly minor shortcomings:
- it would have been nice if it could have been attached to the wall with something like velcro so you could fold it down with one hand, but the way the hing is built, the upper part travels up and down during the operation and would prevent the scale from staying attached to the wall during the fold down. Unfortunately I don't want to drill holes through my tile backsplash to permanently mount the unit with their hanger.
- setting the time is impossible. i followed their instructions (which were apparently wrong) and couldn't set the time. being an engineer I didn't want to give up and kept pressing buttons, and button combinations, and kept pressing, pressing, pressing, etc. and finally got it into the clock set mode. I have no idea how to repeat it, so when the batteries go out, i don't know if i'll be able to reset the clock.
- my biggest single complaint though is that after about 20 seconds, the scale exits the scale/weight measurement mode and return's to the clock mode. to get back to scale mode, you have to press "Tare", which re-zeros the scale. so if you had zeroed it with an empty plate and you put stuff on the plate, it'll be re-zeroed with the plate plus its contents. if you want to add stuff to the plate, you won't have a total weight count, but just what you added after you returned to scale mode. this essentially gives you a 20 second window to place everything you want to weigh on the plate. usually plenty of time, but it is a bit stressful for me and there was just no reason for this time period being so short.
Product Review: quit working
Summary: 2 Stars
Bought this scale about a year ago and it just quit working. I replaced the batteries, but the display is now so faint it cannot be read. I only used it maybe 20 times.
The manufacture placed information tags - not removable - on the bottom so if the scale is hung up, instead of a nice, modern silver-finish, you see the tags and it is not attractive.
The scale shuts off very quickly, so when you are packing and weighing multiple items, the scale has to be turned on every time - and it takes a few seconds to warm up.
The material is light weight plastic. Would not recommend this scale.