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Measuring cups can yield different results depending on the density of the ingredient and how the cook packs it. The Escali Pana scale solves this problem with accurate volume measurements in cups and tablespoons as well as ounces, pounds, and grams. With a 6.6-pound capacity, the Pana scale accurately measures in 1/8-cup, ½-tablespoon, 0.1-ounce or one-gram increments. It is preprogrammed with more than 150 ingredients that are commonly measured in cups and tablespoons. The tare feature subtracts a container's weight to obtain the weight of its contents, and the automatic shut-off feature ensures long battery life. The scale’s stainless-steel plate is removable for quick clean-up. One heavy-duty 9V battery is included (AC adaptor optional), as well as an operations manual with ingredient codes and laminated ingredient code list.
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Escali introduces the Pana Scale -- the first home kitchen scale to provide accurate volume measurements in cups and tablespoons. This patent-pending scale also offers a user-friendly display option incorporating fractions.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
most accurate scale,
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This review is from: Escali Pana V136, Volume Measuring Scale (Kitchen)
I own two of these; one for at home and I keep one at my son's restaurant for when I bake. They are quite accurate and you would be amazed at how inaccurate your measuring cups and spoons are! Did you know that 1 cup of sugar is 7 ounces?! There is a list of foods that are numbered that come with it and all you do is put in a number - 58 is butter or cream - set volume or lbs./ounces/grams and put in your ingredients. You can keep adding more to it by clearing the number, type in the new ingredient number, tare the weight and keep going. This is for liquid or dry and you can do both in the same bowl. I set my filled cake pans or bread pans on it to make sure that I have equal amounts in each pan. Print out a couple of the lists and have them around; mine get pretty messy!
I did have trouble with one of them once; the number 9 wouldn't come up so I called them and I sent it back in the box (so keep it and the insides that it comes in), and they sent me a new one right away.
36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Obsolete user interface,
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This review is from: Escali Pana V136, Volume Measuring Scale (Kitchen)
To those who own this scale and are happy with it, I mean no offense. I hope you will understand that this is intended as constructive criticism of a product which has potential, but badly needs to be updated and improved.
To those who have not yet jumped off of that cliff, think twice about the dubious return on investment that this poorly implemented device represents. The lack of a user friendly interface, and the failure to provide a text labeled ingredient database, make this product an unwieldy anachronism. Here is what I mean: What is simpler, remembering what a cup of flour weighs, or remembering a cryptic numeric code you have to punch into the scale to measure flour? What is easier, looking up the weight of an ingredient, or looking up an abstract numeric code ? If you remember the numeric code for an ingredient, you can only measure the volume on this expensive special scale. If you remember the unit weight of an ingredient, you can measure the volume on ANY scale, even the $24 model, or your next door neighbor's scale, or mom's old mechanical scale. If you have an inexpensive scale you can determine the volume of an ingredient just by weighing it. If you have this expensive scale you can determine the volume of an ingredient by looking around to find your special laminated card, looking up the secret code (if it is on the list of approved ingredients), entering the code into the scale, and THEN weighing it. Unless the manufacturer updates this scale to allow predictive entry of ingredient names, user defined ingredients, conversion table updates, and a generally more modern user interface, I would suggest you save some money and buy the cheap scale. You can easily find a weight to volume conversion chart on the Internet, print it out, laminate it, and save yourself from spending three times as much money as you should have, to get a convenience feature which really isn't all that convenient. (You can use that chart you made with ANY scale !) I really hope that the manufacturer will get a clue and update this scale to current levels of user interface technology. This would have been a great product in the mid-1980's, but given the current state of the art, it is a sad failure.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get accurate results, save time and dishwashing,
By Trubbaman (Portsmouth, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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