The Best Kitchen Scales

Everyone should have a food scale in the kitchen, whether you’re a baker or not. We asked a former chocolatier to test a bunch—these are her favorites.

It’s hard to overstate the convenience of a solid kitchen scale for home cooks. Digital kitchen scales open up a new world of possibilities when it comes to upping your cooking or baking game, allowing precision in measuring ingredients, consistency in recipes, and efficiency in the kitchen. As more and more recipes are converted to grams (my favorite measuring metric), there’s no reason to put off investing in a digital scale, especially with how affordable these gadgets can be.

Most—like our top pick, the Escali Primo ($30)—come with AA or AAA batteries and are a breeze to use. Unlike a mechanical scale, a digital scale allows you to tare (we explain what this means further below) the ...