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My $12 digital scale beats my $180 balance scale for bread, and I'm not going back
Used the balance scale for 6 months because a guy at a bakery in Portland told me digital drifts with humidity, but my loaves got way more consistent the week I switched, so which one are you all actually using?
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drew9654d ago
That Portland baker isn't wrong about humidity, but he left out the part where it hits both scales. I ran a cheap digital next to a 40 year old Ohaus for a month and logged every batch, and the digital drifted maybe 2 grams on a rainy week while the balance beam was dead on but took me 45 seconds per weigh and I kept rushing the final pour. The real win wasn't drift, it was speed and repeatability. When you weigh 8 ingredients fast, you stop fooling yourself about how close you got. My bread got better because I stopped guessing, not because the scale was magic. The beam still sits on the shelf for when I want to feel like a real baker.
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