American Weigh Scales AMW-SC-501 Digital Pocket Scale, 500 by 0.01 G

This is a great quality scale that is very accurate and has a high weight limit considering its accuracy. The platform to weigh the item is high which is good because it keeps the item away from the buttons and screen. I use this to weight coffee and small ingredients for my bread like salt and yeast. This comes with two plastic weighing trays which double as a protective case when the scale is not in use. I returned the first scale because they were cracked and damaged, the second scale I received also came with cracked plastic trays, I decided to just keep it because although the tray came damaged, it is a good scale and it did not interfere with the operation of the scale.

Compré esta bascula principalmente para la preparación de mi café, me sorprendió lo rápida y precisa, no se apaga como otras basculas y se siente bien construida, además que el tamaño de bolsillo es un gran plus. Funciona mejor que la Hario que estaba reemplazando, y tiene mayor capacidad y precisión, y a una fracción de su costo.

Coffee geeks: this is your best option for weighing out beans. It fits an aeropress, just fits a clever dripper, although probably not a large Chemex. Superbly fast, good repeatable results to nearest 0.1g, and goes up to 2kg which is quite rare for scales which measure to nearest 0.1g. Great for baking as well, if you can find a bowl that fits it. Love it very much.

I like this scale for two main reasons: it's small and it's simple. I use it almost exclusively to measure my espresso grinds/shot and it works perfectly. It's also nice and thin which is a bonus if you are using it for espresso because it will likely fit under the portafilter nicely (depending on your machine of course).

(Update 1/9/12: this scale is great! Original set of batteries, 2x daily use @ work, and just as stable as I could hope for. But, funny enough, I have forgotten to take off the top cover maybe 3 or 4 times not only to get a funky reading. Wish my kitchen scale at home (referenced in my review) was this reliable!) Some of my coworkers think of me as a coffee snob: I usually don't like the bland roast that finds its home in our kitchen, instead preferring a dark and flavorful French or Italian. That's why I use my Planetary Design French Press Mug to brew my personal stash, 18 fluid ounces at a time. The reason I don't call myself a coffee snob? Up to now, I've been using the ice cream scooper in the office kitchen to "precisely" (a-hem!) measure my grinds. That, I'm pretty sure, is an instant disqualification from any uppity coffee lovers society, and it's also the reason why my brew was occasionally bitter and sometimes weak. I've used a My Weigh 7001DX Digital Scale at home in the kitchen for a number of years to weigh out my coffee, and figured it was finally time to bite the bullet and do the same at work. Requirements? I wanted the scale to be small, yet large enough for my 4" diameter press pot, and have a high enough weight capacity to measure my press pot plus the coffee. Turns out this SC-2KG is spot on size wise with a 4" square weighing surface, and just enough capacity to measure my press, the coffee, and even the water in it (if I was so inclined -- though I'm not). Protection is pretty good. A large tray is included, and a small snap-on platform cover mostly protects this scale (it's not truly enclosed and sealed from dust, but it's enough that it will survive getting banged around a little in my desk drawer or my soft-sided laptop bag. The three buttons have a satisfyingly hard click when pressed, not the softer click of my 7001DX buttons that sometime require a little finesse to engage. The display comes on immediately (always with the blue backlight illuminated), and zeros quickly. I appreciate that the feet of this unit are positioned such that hard button presses don't cause the scale to tilt. I owned a scale that would do a nose stand when light pressure was applied to the buttons, and I even see this is a problem with a couple of American Weigh's scales, after watching a handful of the calibration videos they've posted on their website. The scale data refers to a 3 to 5 second stability time (in theory, the delay after adding weight to where the display indicates an accurate reading) and that seems pretty typical throughout their lineup. In fact, this is approximately the delay my My Weigh 7001DX at home exhibits, and it annoys me that my reading can jump around by 2 grams (or none at all), when I'm adding coffee. But with this SC-2KG, that delay hasn't been apparent. It might be because the grams display is in 0.1 increments (my 7001DX is in full gram increments) -- so I can watch the scale "build up" to the next gram, vs. jumping ten tenths at a time. But in reality, I think it's quite a bit faster at stabilizing than the claimed 3 second figure. Repeatability is very good. My 500g calibration weight was dead on. I played around with some bananas and beer bottles (just because), and combining two separate items would get me to within 0.1g of the weight of the items' individual weights added together -- within the rounding error. For my purposes, this scale is more than accurate enough. For the price, it's phenomenal. Now excuse me while I go brew another cup of coffee.