Kitchen Garden Forum

I too hate the idea (and the actuality) of being ripped off. Having said that, and at the risk of sounding like a wet blanket, I do hope that your kitchen scales can be verified as being completely accurate. I have no idea what sort of tolerances the makers of scales allow in their accuracy, and 193g would be within a 4% accuracy.
I only raise this as I know that some commonly used items on which we depend, such as speedometers in cars, have a degree of inaccuracy as the norm. When my SatNav shows a speed of 30mph, which I assume is pretty accurate as it is calculated from GPS, the car speedo shows 28mph, roughly a 7% discrepancy. Do domestic kitchen scales suffer the same problem?

In commercial business they come in & verify your scales are accurate. They come into the hospital even & check all the kitchen ones, & even the ward ones that we measure urine - it's taken pretty seriously!

I would think if your scales are digital with a new battery in they should be pretty accurate though.

Westi

My scales are digital I just assumed that they are accurate as I cook using these scales every day. We bought a packet of Patras feta and that weight 200g unpacked which is exactly what the packet said.