The best kitchen scales
Accurate to the gram, easy to clean and cheap as chips: the scales that make baking come out right.
Baking is chemistry, and cups and guesswork don’t cut it. A good digital scale costs less than a bag of fancy flour and makes every recipe more reliable.
What matters
- 1g accuracy and a 5kg capacity cover almost everything.
- A tare button lets you weigh straight into the bowl.
- Glass or steel tops wipe clean easily.
- Some also measure liquids in ml.
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Best overall
#1 of 5
9.1/10
Amazon Basics Digital Kitchen Scales
£ Under £15
Slim, accurate and batteries included. Proof you don’t need to spend much to weigh flour properly.
- Weighs up to 5kg
- Tare button
- Grams, ounces and pounds
- Stainless steel top
- Batteries included
What owners say: Accurate, easy to use and great value. Owners say baking finally comes out right.
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A closer look: Pop the mixing bowl on first, press tare, then add each ingredient and zero it again before the next, so a whole cake comes together in one bowl with less washing up. It registers amounts as small as 2g, which helps with yeast, spices and baking powder, where a little too much really shows.
Best for: Everyday cooking and baking for the least money
- Weighing surface
- Stainless steel
- Measures liquids (ml)
- No
- Batteries included
- Yes
Best for bakers
#2 of 5
9.0/10
Salter Disc Electronic Kitchen Scale
£15.00 RRP
Salter made Britain’s first spring scales back in the 1760s (its factory workers even founded West Bromwich Albion). This disc scale takes a big mixing bowl without hiding the display.
- Weighs up to 5kg
- Stainless steel disc platform
- Add-and-weigh tare
- Accurate to 1g
What owners say: Well designed, easy to use and accurate, with a handy zero button for bowls.
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A closer look: Switching between metric and imperial makes it handy for older recipe books and handwritten family recipes still written in ounces. It’s slim enough to slide into a drawer or a narrow gap beside the toaster, and the stainless steel disc just needs a wipe with a damp cloth after a floury baking session.
Best for: Bakers with big mixing bowls
- Weighing surface
- Stainless steel disc
- Measures liquids (ml)
- –
- Batteries included
- –
Runner-up
#3 of 5
9.0/10
ACCUWEIGHT 201 Digital Kitchen Scales
£9.98 RRP
Four sensors under a tempered glass top, and a display you can read from any angle, even with a big mixing bowl on top.
- 4 precision sensors
- Tempered glass platform
- 5kg, 1g increments
- Batteries included
What owners say: Well made, easy to read and big enough for a stand-mixer bowl. Wipes clean in seconds.
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A closer look: In millilitre mode, you can pour milk, water or stock straight into a jug on the scale, which is often more accurate than squinting at the markings on the side. The screen warns you when the batteries are running low, and it turns itself off if you’re called away halfway through a recipe.
Best for: Easy reading, with a backlit display
- Weighing surface
- Tempered glass
- Measures liquids (ml)
- Yes
- Batteries included
- Yes
With a bowl
#4 of 5
9.0/10
SENSSUN Digital Scale with Removable Bowl
£ Under £15
Comes with its own bowl, which makes pouring flour or sugar far less messy, and it all stacks away neatly.
- Removable bowl
- Weighs up to 5kg
- Tare and auto-zero
- Wipe-clean finish
What owners say: Excellent quality, spot-on accuracy every time, and easy to clean and store.
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A closer look: Its bowl holds 0.8 litres, plenty for sugar, flour or milk, but a big batch of bread dough will need a larger bowl of your own on the platform. It powers down after two minutes of sitting idle, so keep adding ingredients steadily, and the batteries come already fitted, which means it works straight out of the box on Christmas morning.
Best for: Anyone without a spare mixing bowl
- Weighing surface
- Comes with a 0.8L bowl
- Measures liquids (ml)
- Yes
- Batteries included
- Yes
Best budget
#5 of 5
8.9/10
HomeFashion Digital Kitchen Scales
£ Under £15
Compact, stainless steel and it measures liquids as well as weight, for the price of a sandwich.
- 5kg, 1g increments
- Grams, ounces, pounds and ml
- Stainless steel top
- Batteries included
What owners say: Good quality, great value, and a handy size that still fits bowls and plates.
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A closer look: With a footprint of 18 by 14cm, it takes up less room than a chopping board, so it suits a student kitchen, a caravan or a first flat. Mixing bowls wider than the platform will overhang a little, so set them down in the middle, and the backlit screen helps when the only light is from the cooker hood.
Best for: A tiny price for a proper steel-topped scale
- Weighing surface
- Stainless steel (18 × 14cm)
- Measures liquids (ml)
- Yes
- Batteries included
- Yes
How they compare
| Feature | #1Amazon BasicsBest overall | #2Salter DiscBest for bakers | #3ACCUWEIGHT 201Runner-up | #4SENSSUN with bowlWith a bowl | #5HomeFashionBest budget |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picked Rating | 9.1 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 8.9 |
| Price | £ Under £15 | £15.00 RRP | £9.98 RRP | £ Under £15 | £ Under £15 |
| Weighing surface | Stainless steel | Stainless steel disc | Tempered glass | Comes with a 0.8L bowl | Stainless steel (18 × 14cm) |
| Measures liquids (ml) | No | – | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Batteries included | Yes | – | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | Everyday cooking and baking for the least money | Bakers with big mixing bowls | Easy reading, with a backlit display | Anyone without a spare mixing bowl | A tiny price for a proper steel-topped scale |
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