Felicita Parallel Electronic Coffee Scale, 160x212x35mm, Black

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Batteries. As I mentioned earlier, I do prefer rechargeable scales than having to hunt for batteries, although to be fair you could of course use rechargeable AAA batteries.

They strike me as being fairly similar in many ways to the more expensive Hario scale, below, with batteries being required, and with a timer function but no auto timer & a very similar footprint. The good stuff. The price. They're probably around two hundred quid more than the majority of people would consider spending on coffee scales – and some would see the price of these scales as utter lunacy, see what I did there? ;-). But they are made with pricey materials, they're certainly well built, and nothing feels cheap about them. These scales seem to share the same lag or latency issue with the Hario scales and with most of the other cheaper coffee scales, which possibly isn't a massive issue for pourover or other manual brew methods but would be a pain for espresso.

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I just bought these USB type C charging port covers, and they are very inexpensive, but I'd have preferred to not have to faff around buying something like this. A tonne of features include auto timer, programmable auto-off, auto tare, and blue tooth connectivity.

Short. At the same height, as the well-known espresso specialist scales the Acaia Lunar, you're unlikely to get much smaller than this in terms of height. If you ask most baristas or seasoned home baristas to name the best brand of coffee scales, they'll probably reply “Acaia”. They have a very good reputation, for making some extremely popular high-end coffee scales. Creating great coffee is all about consistently doing the same thing and using the right amount of coffee and timing the extraction just right are two of the variables that will make a big difference to overall quality. Have a tendency to not be particularly precise with the weight, and can suffer from weight variance, meaning that if you put something on the scale, tare it and then weigh it again, you can get a different result. They're a good few cm deeper than the Timemore, 1cm narrower, and just a few mm taller. The good stuff.Don't usually have some of the features that may be desirable for certain uses, particularly espresso – and namely, the auto timer function, which is a feature many people would prefer if they have an espresso machine that doesn't have a shot timer.