Etekcity Food Kitchen Scale Review: The $11 Workhorse
The $11 scale that quietly outlasts the fancy gear next to it on the counter
A budget digital kitchen scale that buyers use daily for years — accurate to 1g, easy to wipe clean, and priced under $11. Here's who it fits.
Bottom Line
For eleven bucks, this is the scale that earns a permanent spot on the counter. Accurate to the gram, dead simple to run, and people hang onto it for years. It's not lab gear, and a wide bowl blocks the screen — but as an everyday scale for baking and portioning, the value is hard to argue with.
Read through the buyer reviews and the same picture keeps forming: a cheap scale people end up using far more than they planned. Someone buys it to hit a Pinewood Derby weight limit, and their spouse takes it over for sourdough. Someone grabs it for coffee beans and starts weighing every ingredient in the recipe. Bought for one job, kept for ten — that's the strongest thing it has going for it.
### It gets the two things that matter right
Accuracy and simplicity. Owners who check it against a known weight say the readings hold up, and the tare does the heavy lifting: set the bowl down, zero it, add flour, zero again, keep going. No mental math, no extra cups to wash. Grams to ounces to milliliters is one button. The stainless top wipes clean in a pass.
### The body feels like eleven dollars
Because it is eleven dollars. The readout can vanish under a wide bowl, and the two-minute auto-off sometimes quits on you mid-task. The 1-gram resolution is plenty for cooking and too coarse for espresso.
### A decade of use is the real review
One owner wrote a goodbye note when hers finally died under a butter spill after years of daily weighing. That's the verdict that counts. For everyday kitchen work, this earns its keep and then some.
