Taylor Digital Measuring Cup and Scale
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Taylor Digital Measuring Cup and Scale
Customer Review: Unnecessary Kitchen Gadget
Summary: 3 Stars
This "electronic measuring cup" is neat but totally unnecessary. It may actually increase the amount of kitchen work because it must be carefully cleaned. I only bought it because my wife and I usually exchange some gadgetry among other things at Christmas. While this device is supposed to measure liquid and dry weights it might be somewhat useful to those bakers who measure flour by weight instead of volume. We have only crudely tested the accuracy of this device and from what we could tell it was probably accurate enough for kitchen use. We tend to do quite a bit of food experimentation in looking for new dishes to eat. I do not think this device will improve that process. However, this measuring cup reminded me that not all regular measuring cups are accurate. This is particularly true of large measuring cups when used to measure small amounts. The scale printing on some cups can be printed to high or too low on the side of the cup. Those measuring cups with a molded scale tend to be more accurate. This may be because the mold created by the manufacturer is more carefully developed because of its relative permanence as opposed to a painted scale that may require adjustment from time to time by the manufacturer. So, this product is a neat idea but not really needed from our point of view.Customer Review: Very hard to see LCD when sitting on counter unless very bright
Summary: 2 Stars
We have a total of 4 lightbulbs in two fixtures in our kitchen plus a window. Product must sit on counter when used. Unless your counter is very brightly lit you will have trouble reading the LCD display.
Otherwise appears well made but glass would be better.
Customer Review: Silliest kitchen tool I've ever bought
Summary: 1 Stars
It sounds like a great idea: a measuring cup for volume that will also tell you the weight of what you're measuring. You can finally cook something out of that beautiful Australian cookbook that only gives metric weights for ingredients. Yay!!
And then you read the instruction booklet (actually the best thing about it) that tells you you can't wash the whole thing, just rinse it out verrrrrry carefully. Whoops. There goes any thought of measuring 150 grams of golden syrup, or any amount of oil.
And then when you want to use it for American recipes that only give volume, you realize that it's a 4-cup measure, so it won't work very well for things like flour that you want to measure with the dip-and-sweep method. Or for small volumes, like 1/4 cup.
And you look at the readout that tells you that the cup of milk you're measuring weighs 8 ounces, or is 8 fluid ounces. Um, yeah. Swell, like you didn't know that. But it also tells you that what sure looks like 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) of sugar is actually 1 3/8 cups. Huh??
And did I mention that of course it has to be sitting on a perfectly flat surface, like your countertop -- which means that in order to read the screen, you have to bend over or crouch or otherwise contort your body? And if you pick it up to read the markings on the side of the cup, the scale won't work!
My advice: don't. Just. Don't.
Customer Review: It's a prima dona, not a workhorse.
Summary: 1 Stars
I was given this as a gift. It sounds like a great idea and I was excited to try it. As I read the manual I started to wonder. You can't immerse it in water, so I only used it for ingredients that can be easily wiped out. It has so many settings I had to refer to the manual every time I switched ingredients. There are settings for water, milk, oil, sugar, and flour. And a plain old scale setting. Fluids and solids need different settings, of course. But milk is almost 90% water, so does it really need it's own setting? I'm not using it for some touchy chemistry experiment, I'm making cookies!! You can't put it in the refrigerator or microwave. You can't store it with anything in it--not even a smaller cup. You can't store it near cleaning chemicals. You can't store it on it's side. In my small kitchen it wasn't useful enough to earn it's own spot in the cabinet. This is a prima dona of kitchen tools, I like workhorses. I find it much easier to use a mixing bowl on a regular digital scale.