Escali PR500S Pico HP High Precision Digital Scale 500g, Metallic

Works great. Pricey in my opinion, but I bought it, so I guess not more pricey than is reasonable. Love that it has fractions of grams. Great for helping me keep my small sourdough starter.

Yo ya había utilizado esta báscula pero ya no la pude conseguir, usé otras básculas pero no fue lo mismo. Esta báscula es muy fácil de usar, es precisa y nos facilita el trabajo de la tortillería.

Durable, accurate and reliable

Someone said that this must be for drug dealers, because it can’t be used in the kitchen. There are numerous errors in the description, so I thought I would correct those and tell you what it is used for.First of all, the limit is 500 grams for the Escali Pico, and the size is tiny. It is used primarily to count large numbers of tiny things. Suppose you need 500 small glass or metal beads. You weigh a much smaller number according to the directions, then switch to count mode, and either use this to tell you how many you have all together, or else to tell you when you’ve reached the amount you need. I’m a mathematician, so I never use it that way.Instead, I use it for yarn. I know how many yards are originally in a skein from the yarn label. Take the weight in grams (trust me, it’s easier) of the leftover yarn and divide by the weight of the full skein/hank (usually 100gm), then multiply by the # of yards originally in the skein. That gives you a good estimate of how many yards are left. If you knit or crochet, it is a godsend. It allows you to make the best use of your leftover yarn without always falling back on scrap patterns.

I got this scale for my kitchen. I used to have an Escali N115S scale, but it got exposed to water (ugly disaster!), and it never worked properly after that. So I got the Escali Pico PR500S as a replacement. I did not realize that it was a different product. When it arrived, I noticed the higher resolution of the PR500S (0.1 grams as opposed to the 1.0 grams of the N115S model). For my purposes (weighing food in my kitchen), the higher resolution was not very relevant. If anything, I found the extra digit of precision a little bit too much information for my purpose in the kitchen, but not a problem either. What was not so good was that the Escali Pico PR500S has a weight limit of 0.5 kg, as opposed to the 5.0 kg of the N115S, and this was a game breaker: By the time you put a dish or bowl on the PR500S, and then add some food item, it's easy to go over the limit. And if you go over the 0.5 kg limit, the scale does not give you a value, and furthermore it could get damaged. I ended up buying an N115S for the kitchen, but I did keep the PR500S for small items that I occasionally want to measure with great accuracy. Did you know that a standard paper clip weight 0.5 grams? Or that a single lego cube weight 1.1 grams? :-)