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Escali Cesta portable nutritional tracker is ultra slim and allows the user to have access to weight and nutritional data at home and away. The user friendly touch glass display shows calories, sodium, protein, fat, carbohydrates, cholesterol or fiber via the input of 999 different food codes. The Cesto can calculate total nutritional value for up to 99 different meal components.
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Color Name:Silver Gray|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm a single guy who doesn't do that much cooking but kinda is picky (taste) about food, recipes, and quality. I bought this because it's an Escali, the style (including color), the features, and the size. I borrowed a set of certified weights from a lab, from 1 gram to 5 Kg and found the scale to be very dependable, no more than 6% out of line. The maximum readable weight is about 5 Kg.
The book of referenced products is a treasure trove of information. When I discovered I was borderline high cholesterol and wanted to combat that naturally, this scale helps tremendously. Quickly pulling it out, measuring a new item that I'm not familiar with weight vs. visual size, is so easy, fun and painless. It's so thin that it's in with the cereal, ready to be taken out. The glass platform is great, the touches are very responsive (I'm a guy with bigger hands) and the convenience is wonderful. Buy it for a multi-use environment.
The book of referenced products is a treasure trove of information. When I discovered I was borderline high cholesterol and wanted to combat that naturally, this scale helps tremendously. Quickly pulling it out, measuring a new item that I'm not familiar with weight vs. visual size, is so easy, fun and painless. It's so thin that it's in with the cereal, ready to be taken out. The glass platform is great, the touches are very responsive (I'm a guy with bigger hands) and the convenience is wonderful. Buy it for a multi-use environment.
Color Name:Silver Gray|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this scale for my husband and it is exactly what he needs; he uses it every day. It is simple to read, easy to use, and complex enough to give you the exact calorie breakdown of any food included in the booklet (most anything you can think of). So much easier than looking up calorie info online or memorizing things if you are one to track your calories. It is slim, modern-looking and doesn't clutter a kitchen in the least bit. I cannot say enough good things about it; you will not regret purchasing!!
Color Name:Black|Amazon Verified Purchase
This scale does exactly what it adverstises it will do. It is very sleek and modern looking and has a quality-build feel to it. It is very accurate. It is a pretty unquie item and if these are the features you are looking for in a scale, you will really like it.
You can use all sort of different measuring units such as grams, ounces, pounds and ounces, ML, etc. It has a "tare" feature which allows you to zero-out the weight of the container. For example, you put a mixing bowl on the scale and the scale registers 1.5 lbs. Hit "zero" and it goes back to zero, add 1 pound of flower, hit "zero" and it goes back to zero, add 1 pound of sugar, hit zero, add another ingredient and so on. You can do this tare many times.
If you are using the nutritional facts feature of the scale, you would enter the 3-digit code for flour and it would tally of the nutritional values for the pound of flour, you would save to memory, enter the 3 digit code for sugar and also repeat this for each ingredient. After you add all of your ingredients, you will have the total nutritional value of the entire recipe.
If you use this often enough, these steps or sequence of buttons will become second nature, but you will probably need to get the manual if you don't use it often. Also, you have to use the book for all the food codes. There is no point of entry into the scale meaning, you can't start typing sugar and the word sugar appears with the code and you press select. It is a totally manual process.
I think I paid around $60 for it which still seems a little high to me, but if you want the features that this scale offers, I think that it is worth the price. There weren't many other products that offered this feature set for a better price.
The scale is really pretty small and it is very thin and sleek. This might present a problem for weighing certain things because the area that you place things on to be weighed is only about 4 or 5 inches square. When I've needed to weigh large or odd shaped things, I put a bowl on first, tare the bowl weight, and then add my large items. This works fine for my purposes.
You can use all sort of different measuring units such as grams, ounces, pounds and ounces, ML, etc. It has a "tare" feature which allows you to zero-out the weight of the container. For example, you put a mixing bowl on the scale and the scale registers 1.5 lbs. Hit "zero" and it goes back to zero, add 1 pound of flower, hit "zero" and it goes back to zero, add 1 pound of sugar, hit zero, add another ingredient and so on. You can do this tare many times.
If you are using the nutritional facts feature of the scale, you would enter the 3-digit code for flour and it would tally of the nutritional values for the pound of flour, you would save to memory, enter the 3 digit code for sugar and also repeat this for each ingredient. After you add all of your ingredients, you will have the total nutritional value of the entire recipe.
If you use this often enough, these steps or sequence of buttons will become second nature, but you will probably need to get the manual if you don't use it often. Also, you have to use the book for all the food codes. There is no point of entry into the scale meaning, you can't start typing sugar and the word sugar appears with the code and you press select. It is a totally manual process.
I think I paid around $60 for it which still seems a little high to me, but if you want the features that this scale offers, I think that it is worth the price. There weren't many other products that offered this feature set for a better price.
The scale is really pretty small and it is very thin and sleek. This might present a problem for weighing certain things because the area that you place things on to be weighed is only about 4 or 5 inches square. When I've needed to weigh large or odd shaped things, I put a bowl on first, tare the bowl weight, and then add my large items. This works fine for my purposes.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great features, sleek design, touch pad iffy
This scale is wonderfully slim and helps the tracking of calories enormously
by showing the calories, protein, fat, carbs, and sodium for the food you're currently... Read more
by showing the calories, protein, fat, carbs, and sodium for the food you're currently... Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. Gen
it works
I bought it as part of my weight loss program and it works as promised. It is very sensitive so you have to store it by itself as any little bump turns the machine on and drains... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Tutts
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