Etekcity Food Kitchen Scale, Digital Grams and Ounces, 11lb, Tare Function, 304 Stainless Steel Review (2026)

Who this scale suits

This scale is a good match for home bakers who want to weigh pizza dough ingredients such as flour, water and salt precisely rather than measuring by volume, since baker's percentages depend on accurate gram measurements to work correctly. It also suits anyone tracking portions for diet or meal prep purposes, since it switches between grams, ounces and other units easily. The 11 pound capacity comfortably covers a standard batch of pizza dough for a household, but anyone regularly mixing very large batches for multiple pizzas or bread loaves at once may find the ceiling limiting.

Specs and design explained

The scale measures up to 11 pounds, or 5 kilograms, with graduations as fine as 0.04 ounces or 1 gram, which is precise enough for the kind of small adjustments pizza dough recipes often call for. It has a tare function that zeroes out the weight of a bowl or container, letting each ingredient be added and measured in turn without doing subtraction by hand. The platform is made from 304 stainless steel, a food safe grade of steel, and the whole unit measures roughly 7.3 by 5.7 by 0.7 inches, keeping it compact enough to store in a drawer between uses.

Living with it day to day

In daily use, the backlit display stays readable even in a dim kitchen and the auto off feature after a couple of minutes helps preserve battery life between uses. The tare function is especially useful for pizza dough, where flour, water, yeast and salt typically get added one at a time into the same mixing bowl. A wide mixing bowl can partially block the display from certain angles, so it helps to check the reading before the bowl grows too tall. The stainless steel platform wipes down easily after floury or wet ingredients, and there is no fussy assembly involved, so it is ready to weigh out ingredients within seconds of pulling it from a drawer.

Trade-offs against other scales

Compared with scales rated to 22 pounds, this 11 pound capacity is noticeably lower, which matters most for anyone doing large batch or commercial style baking rather than typical home portions. Against scales with pull out or angled displays designed to stay visible under tall bowls, this one has a fixed flat display that a wide bowl can obscure at certain angles. Where it holds its own is precision and price, since the fine gram graduations and tare function match what higher capacity scales offer for the kind of ingredient weights a home pizza baker typically works with.

Verdict and who should look elsewhere

For home bakers weighing standard batches of pizza or bread dough, this scale offers the precision and tare function needed to follow baker's percentage recipes accurately, all in a compact, easy to clean package. Anyone regularly mixing very large batches that could exceed 11 pounds, or who wants a display that stays visible under a tall mixing bowl from any angle, should look at a higher capacity scale with a pull out or angled screen instead. For typical home batches, though, this scale covers the job well and its compact size means it can stay out on the counter without getting in the way of everyday prep work.

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