15kg USB Rechargeable Kitchen Scale

Most kitchen scales top out around five kilograms, which is fine for a cake and useless for a turkey, a sack of potatoes or a full stockpot. This scale weighs up to 15 kg while still reading in single-gram steps, so the same unit handles a Christmas joint and 3 g of yeast. The platform measures 23 by 16 cm, wide enough to take a mixing bowl without it overhanging and hiding the display.

It charges over USB rather than eating button cells. A 400 mAh lithium battery holds its charge through weeks of ordinary use, and a low-battery warning tells you before it gives up in the middle of a recipe. The bright LCD shows a tare function for weighing straight into a bowl, unit conversion between grams, kilograms, pounds and ounces, and an overload alarm if you ask too much of it.

The surface is sealed and waterproof, so flour, raw meat juices and spilled milk wipe off with a cloth rather than working into a seam, and at 2 cm thick the whole thing slides into a drawer between uses. Wipe it clean rather than submerging it, and do not place food directly on the platform; use a plate, bowl or paper instead. Accurate, tidy and built for the volumes real cooking involves.

• Product type: digital kitchen scale
• Material: durable plastic with sealed waterproof surface
• Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 2 cm
• Weight range: 1 g to 15 kg, 1 g accuracy
• Power: USB rechargeable, 400 mAh lithium battery
• Functions: tare, unit conversion, low battery and overload alarms
• Use: baking, cooking, meal prep, parcels and portioning
• Note: not for direct food contact, use a plate or bowl