Great scale for the price. Doesn't really get down to very small amounts very well but a small scale is easy and cheap enough to get. The MODE function allows you to avoid conversion from LBS to GMS, etc.

What I like most about this scale is the large platform. I've been using a compact Rubbermaid scale with good results, except for the platform size. When using most any type of mixing bowl or container, it obscures the display. Not so with the San Jamar. While it takes up more countertop space, I think it's well worth it for the easy of use and visibility on the display. Being a larger scale, the display and control panel is also much larger than a compact scale, adding to the ease of use. The accuracy is spot on as check with my calibration weights. The 66 lb capacity is a bit much for a home kitchen scale but will be useful in a commercial kitchen when weighing in deliveries. The platform comes right lifts right off for easy cleaning and overall seems to be well made and you get the feeling it will hold up in a commercial environment. Of course it has the standard tare, hold and increment functions. An available AC power supply is available, but not included. Well priced and a good choice for a midsize scale.

There are many small, precision scales designed for the home kitchen. If your measuring needs go beyond weighing ingredients, but you still require a sanitary surface, the San Jamar M-Series Digital Scale will do quite nicely.

This instrument has two platforms, used together: a molded plastic platform with pins at the four corners to contact the four load cells in the scale, and a stainless steel over-cap platform intended to be the contact surface for what you're weighing. This over-cap can be protected with food wrap to keep the surface sanitary.

The scale has four display modes: metric (in kilograms), fractional pounds, ounces, and pounds/ounces. Each mode allows for zeroing out the scale ("tare weight"), which can be used to account for packaging material and obtaining a net weight, or obtaining the weight of items added to the scale without removing items already on the platform. I do not have a reference weight to test the accuracy, but presume that with a load cell system the scale was calibrated accurately before it left the factory. The scale's maximum capacity is 33 pounds or 15 Kg, according to the manufacturer.

I tested weighing with alkaline C cell batteries (see below for why they weren't in the scale!); a single battery weighed 2.4 ounces, and subsequent batteries consistently added that amount to the displayed weight. A heavier load also seemed to be displayed correctly.

A separate mode, "PCS", allows the user to weigh a set of samples. The protocol is to press the PCS key, select the number of samples you will be checking, then add the first sample to complete setup. It may be a weakness that the PCS mode allows samples only in multiples of 10, up to 100 samples.

The large LCD readout includes a mode pointer, and lights up blue (as in the photo) when backlit. I found it was legible in a brightly lit room. A bubble level indicates whether the scale is level (very important for load cells), and the four feet allow for fast leveling. The scale requires either 4 size "C" cells or a 9 volt adapter for operation. The battery door screws down with a nicely-sized thumbwheel bolt. My unit included four carbon-zinc batteries, though the specifications call for alkaline batteries for best results; they may have been included as a courtesy. I expect you'd want the adapter for most production environments.

This is a commercial grade, well-built product, and I recommend it.

As a kitchen scale it's a little big, but it's a lot more than that. You can find kitchen scales by the hundreds that weigh an average of maybe 12 pounds and cost as little as ten bucks. The classic push top with spring dial is what people used to have in a lot of kitchens. This works for the kitchen, but has may more applications. The rare weight capacity of 66 pounds is huge, and opens this up to weighing, packages large and small, large roasts and bags of potatoes for the kitchen, maybe even luggage that an airline would take without paying extra.

Like your local butcher or grocery meat or fish market, it has a tare function button, it allows you to put packaging on the scale, a bowl or container press the tare button and zero the scale. After that you can get an accurate measure of what you put in the packaging and can charge accordingly. I'm not sure every store practices that, but they should, that way it's a fair measure of food you're buying and not paying 20 dollars a pound for filet mincardboard! You can also push the hold button and freeze the weight measurement for recording, useful when weighing packages. I've seen other counting scales like this go for nearly twice the price, so while not inexpensive at a hundred bucks, this is not overpriced for what it is.

What it's not is a lab scale, you would not want to use it to weigh out chemicals, or it wouldn't be much use to a cocaine dealer. The accuracy is within 2 grams or one tenth of an ounce. Further it may not be accurate enough if using it for yeast or other small spice measurements in the kitchen, but for most normal tasks it's good decent resolution. To help keep it decent it does have a leveling bubble if you look close at the picture there's a hole on the left side of the panel, a liquid bubble floats to the center of a bullseye when the scale is on a level surface. If you need to weight other things besides your 5 pounds of burger or 10 pounds of chicken thighs, this is the scale to have. No adapter, but an auto off function and the battery's are large (c-type) and should last a long time. Recommended, for most scale uses in home, and kitchen or small business that don't require lab quality accuracy.

This is a handy scale we use for shipping packages (mostly books). Tested it for accuracy against two other scales that I know to be accurate, and this unit compares exactly the same.

The scale easily toggles through different measuring conventions (lbs / kilograms, etc). On the metric side of things, the scale only registers in 2-gram increments, but since I'm using this for shipping mostly books, I'm more concerned about ounces than grams, so this doesn't bother me.

LOVE the 'hold' feature! My kitchen scale doesn't have that, and I find myself re-weighing things there way too often. That problem disappears with this scale.

I like that a scale of this size works on batteries, making it quite mobile. The 4-C batteries should last a LONG time, so that will preclude me from having to purchase the power cord. (I purchased a power cord for a smaller kitchen scale that gets used heavily, and found that the batteries last almost two years, so I've never had to use the power cord - I expect these batteries will last as long or longer).

You'll need a little bit of space for this unit, as it's almost 14" wide.

Side note: My daughter is in 4-H, and shows rabbits. Turns out certain breeds of rabbits need to be in certain weight ranges, so we took this scale to a 4-H meeting where all the kids got to weigh their bunnies to make sure they were in the right weight range prior to showing them in competition. The 14" wide top worked great for holding all the different sized bunnies.