Camry scale

Digital scales such as Camry scales have a variety of personal and professional uses. While large businesses and manufacturing plants may use industrial Camry weighing scales, the average buyer is shopping for a Camry digital luggage scale or Camry kitchen scale.

What is a kitchen scale?

A kitchen scale is an essential tool that allows chefs and home cooks to measure the weight of the food they are cooking with. A digital kitchen scale can take much more precise measurements than cups or spoons. There are three main types of kitchen scales; balance scales, digital scales and mechanical scales. The balance scale functions by determining mass, not weight. It uses a balance beam to determine if the amount of food being measured is greater or less than a known mass. Mechanical scales, also known as spring scales use a platform mounted on top of a heavy spring that measures the weight. The weight of the food placed on the platform is directly related to the distance the platform goes down. While both of these scales are functional, they both have larger margins of error which are why digital kitchen scales are the most popular of the three. Ranging in price from affordable to expensive (more common in professional applications) a quality digital scale will provide easy-to-read measurements with a high level of precision. They use a strain gauge, an electrical component, whose resistance changes based on the compression of the component. A small computer in the scale houses a table of values allowing it to accurately calculate the weight of the load. Many of these scales provide near-instantaneous readings, allowing cooks to measure as they pour the ingredients onto the scale. These scales also feature a tare feature that allows the cook to subtract the weight of the bowl or container from the overall measurement.