Scales

Scales for baking

When preparing dishes, it’s important to weigh the right amount of ingredients. If you make a mistake, there’s a good chance your dough or batter will fail and you’ll have to start all over again. With a good digital scale, you can weigh all ingredients for bread, pastries, cakes and other dishes accurately.

Why choose a scale?

Want to buy a kitchen scale? Do it! Every home baker benefits from a scale. It helps prevent incorrect ingredient ratios and a failed recipe. Most scales also have a tare function. This means you can place, for example, a mixing bowl on the scale, reset it to zero, and then weigh flour, sugar or something else directly into the bowl. That way, the weight of the bowl isn’t included.

What types of scales are there?

In our webshop you’ll find different types of food scales, each with its own purpose:

Precision scale

With a precision scale, you can weigh ingredients very accurately, often down to 0.01 grams. This is useful for weighing, for example, salt or yeast. This type of scale is also known as a small scale, accurate scale or micro scale.

Professional scale

Professionals also use scales, for example to weigh cheese, cold meats, meat, fish or sweets. You’ll find these scales at Baktotaal too. They are often robust, fast and suitable for larger quantities, up to as much as 30 kilos. They are also known as bench scales. These are highly accurate models; some even have a handy price-calculation function. You enter the price per kilo and the scale immediately shows the amount to pay.

Spoon scale

With a spoon scale, you can weigh small quantities directly. This is ideal for weighing herbs, powders and liquids in small amounts. You scoop the product into the spoon and the weight appears on the display straight away. This is perfect if you want to work precisely but don’t want to use a small bowl.

Kitchen scale

A kitchen scale is a compact scale that’s essential in your kitchen. They are easy to use and suitable for weighing flour, sugar, butter or other ingredients you need while baking.

Tips for using your scale

- Use a flat surface to ensure an accurate measurement.
- Weigh ingredients one by one in the same bowl using the tare function; it saves washing up.
- Always use a dry bowl for dry ingredients and a separate measuring jug for liquids for the best result.

More than just scales

Combine your food scale with handy baking tools such as mixing bowls, measuring cups, timers or thermometers. This makes baking not only more accurate, but also easier.

Buying a food scale at Baktotaal

Make sure you can weigh your ingredients quickly and easily in the kitchen. Buy a scale today so you’ll never end up with the wrong weight again. Don’t forget to take a look at our extensive range. Besides scales, you can also come to us for ingredients and other baking essentials, such as proving baskets, thermometers and timers.