Escali Pana V136, Volume Measuring Scale

by Escali

• Lifetime warranty; Volume measurements in cups and tablespoons as well as ounces, pounds, and grams
• 13-pound capacity; 1/8-cup, ˝-tablespoon, 0.1-ounce or 1-gram increments
• Preprogrammed with more than 500 ingredients measured in cups and tablespoons
• Tare feature; automatic shut-off; removable stainless-steel plate
• 9 by 8 by 2 inches; 1 9V battery included; laminated ingredient code list included

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 2 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JVCQPC
• Item model number: V63
• Batteries 1 9V batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,530 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars most accurate scale October 6, 2008

By C. Charles

Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

51 of 56 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Obsolete user interface February 7, 2010

By rwizard VINE™ VOICE

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 October 21, 2007

By Trubbaman

I have never liked the process of spooning out and leveling flour in measuring cups; it's messy and time-consuming, but necessary to get an accurate measurement for baking. With this scale, you push the volume button, enter in the number of the ingredient on the numeric keypad, watch the display until you get the correct number of cups or tablespoons, etc.Push the tare button and add your next ingredient. I just made a batch of muffins and didn't have to measure out anything by hand except the spices. Great product!!