WHAY ARE THEY?

Digital scales from celebrity chef Anthony Worrall Thompson.

HOW DO YOU USE THEM?

Turn the scales on and set if you are weighing in ounces or grammes. You can weigh directly onto the glass top of the scales or put a bowl on top and weigh into that. There is a zeroing function so that you can weigh out different amounts of ingredients into the same bowl while you are making a recipe.

ARE THEY ANY GOOD?

No, they are not. They do not weigh accurately and display very different weights in different places in my kitchen, there can be up to a 10g difference and this can be disastrous when cooking cakes and airy biscuits. The scales switch themselves off very quickly as well so if you are weighing lots of different items you should have them all to hand because just a walk to the cupboard for more sugar can be long enough for the scales to shut down. If you need to walk away from the scales try to memorise the number in case you lose your data.

The scales are very cheap feeling and the plastic base is too light, it is also slippy on the bottom so slides if you knock it. The display is hard to read because it's underneath the glass plate and in shadow. You cannot weigh anything on a big plate because then you can't see the display at all.

The glass scratched very easily on mine and I don't know what scratched it because I only use plastic bowls with the scales. They only need to be wiped to keep them clean but use batteries quickly even though they switch off so quickly to save power.

1 Dooyoo Star.