Primo Digital Food Scale
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Why we picked it
11-pound capacity covers a full bag of flour with room to spare
The Escali Primo is the under $30 digital food scale Wirecutter, Serious Eats, and King Arthur Baking all recommend as the home baker's first scale. The 11 pound capacity covers a 10 lb bag of flour with room to spare, tare button works with any container (including the big stand mixer bowl), and the unit toggles between grams, ounces, pounds, and pounds ounces with one button. The 0.1 oz / 1 g resolution is enough for bread baking (you don't need higher precision until you're working sub gram with leavening). Battery life on two AA cells is roughly two years of daily use. r/Sourdough and r/Breadit both treat the Primo as the consensus 'good enough' scale; the premium Escali models add Bluetooth and 0.01g resolution but cost 3x and most bakers don't need either.
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Pros & Cons from Reviews
Pros
- +11-pound capacity covers a full bag of flour with room to spare
- +Tare button works with any container including stand-mixer bowls
- +Toggles between g / oz / lb / lb-oz with one button
- +Two AA cells last roughly two years of daily use
- +Available in 14 colors; same internals across all
Cons
- -0.1 oz / 1g resolution - not precise enough for high-level espresso dosing
- -Plastic body shows wear after years of countertop bumps
- -No auto-shutoff override - long pauses can power it off mid-bake
- -Buttons can wear out after 5+ years of heavy daily use
Warranty & Returns
Warranty
Limited lifetime warranty from Escali
Return Policy
Most items are returnable within 30 days of receipt for a full refund. Some categories have shorter return windows.
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