Here is Sieghard’s message from the other day. I personally find the talking scales from my Weigh to work best. I should mention that I haven't tried a connected scale yet, but my problem with them is that each time you want to weigh something you have to get out your iPhone, I assume you would have to use some app to work with the scale and then hopefully the scale once setup connects without fuss and can provide a continuous readout as you add whatever ingredient you are weighing to the scale.
I enjoy cooking and baking and even if I say so myself I am quite good at it having been taught by my Mom who has her Masters in home economics from Germany back when she was young in the late 50's and early 60's. Back then they were taught so many basics and of course while she is not a Chef, her education included a lot of cooking and baking. Anyways, recipes from Germany always have ingredients listed in grams which of course is much more precise than using cups and spoons with the exception of some spices where it called for a teaspoon of ground cumin or cloves or cinnamon in which case the teaspoon is fine since that would only be 2 or 3 grams at best which is difficult to weigh. If I bake and have to weigh flour, sugar, butter and whatever other ingredients I may need I want to be able to do so quickly and accurately and the My Weigh talking scale I have allows me to do this. Just as one example, we have a traditional Christmas cake in Germany called "Stollen" which is a yeast dough with a ton of stuff in it like ground almonds, 3 different types of raisins, fresh ginger, candied ginger, candied orange peel, candied lemon peel, so I have to weigh all that in addition to flour, butter, milk (I also weigh liquids), yeast and without a scale where you can do this quickly and without fuss it would be a pain in the neck. I know this topic has come up before and I think it was Krister who said his My Weigh scales always break and never work more than a few months or maybe a year, but that is not my experience. I had my first My Weigh scale for I think around 20 years when it did at some point not work any more. It was the VOX-3000 and the surprising thing is that when I contacted My weigh they offered to replace it with a new scale for only the shipping cost which I thought was amazing. I now have had that replacement scale for probably the last 4 or 5 years and it just works. I just did a quick search and here are the links and brief descriptions: VOX-3000: The world’s only precision talking kitchen scale. It uses a 9 Volt battery and has a 1 gram accuracy just as the Vox-2 which I think is a newer model although they must have updated the Vox-3000 since it says now that it can talk in English, Spanish, fRench and German and my old one could only speak English as far as I know. The Vox-3000 also has a round platform and comes with a plastic bowl which has a rim around the bottom which sits on the platform so it actually cannot just slide off if you accidently push against it. For some reason they don't list the capacity of the Vox-3000, but if I remember correctly it weighs up to 3000 grams as is implied in the model name, so 3 Kg or 6.6 pounds. My Weigh Vox 3000 | My Weigh | The best digital scales on earth <https://myweigh.com/product/vox-3000/> VOX-2: Multi-purpose, high-capacity talking scale. This one weighs up to 5 Kg and you can of course set it to grams/Kg and ounces/pounds and it is accurate to 1 gram which is 0.0353 ounces. Both of the My Weigh scales I have had also work really well in that you can put on any plate or bowl or container before you turn the scale on and it will start at 0 no matter whether you have a little plastic bowl on it which weighs an ounce or a big glass bowl which weighs 2 pounds. There is also a button for a tare feature which allows you for example to weigh your butter, assume you want 200 grams, then you want to add sugar directly into the butter because normally that is what you do when you bake. You press the tare button after you have your butter in the bowl and the scale then resets to 0 and you can add say 100 grams of sugar which just makes it a bit easier and saves you from using another bowl to weigh it before pouring it into the bow with the butter. Interestingly enough my wife says our scale is also a Vox-2, but it still uses a 9 Volt battery and as far as I know it only speaks English whereas the one they show on their website now can speak English, Spanish, French and German and uses four AA batteries. It also says you can adjust the volume which you can on mine as well, but it's simply a slider switch underneath and it's either quite loud or just loud and a second switch is also there which allows you to turn the speaking function off completely if a sighted person wants to use it with the display and they don't care to hear it talk. My Weigh Vox-2 | My Weigh | The best digital scales on earth <https://myweigh.com/product/vox-2-evolution/> Of course you can also use this scale to weigh a letter or parcel as long as it's not heavier than 5 Kg (approx. 11 pounds) and I for one really love these scales. Richard, USA. “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard My web site: <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com 🦅 From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 11:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Talking scale The My Weigh Vox-2 or Vox-3000, I would the newer Vox-2. I actually just posted about this a few days ago when somebody asked about accessible scales and kitchen/meat thermometers. Sorry, I didn't save my message and I don't have time to search the archives for it. 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