PSA: Don't buy a 50 dollar digital scale off Amazon for macarons

Ngl I wasted 60 bucks on a scale that couldn't handle the precision for macaron batter and ended up with a batch of weird flat blobs. Has anyone else tried cheap scales that just betray you at the worst moment?

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abby_robinson582mo ago

Tbh I used to be all "just get any scale" but then I borrowed my friends cheap one and it was off by like 5 grams on the flour. Totally ruined my macaron batch too, they came out all cracked and hollow. Thats when I realized you really do need something that measures to the half gram or better.

leow904d ago

Man I felt that "ruined my macaron batch" part way too hard. I had the exact same thing happen with a cheap scale I grabbed from a kitchen supply store, it was off by a solid 4 grams on my almond flour. My macarons came out looking like cracked mud and hollow as a drum. I spent like two hours on that batch just to watch it fail. After that I bit the bullet and got one that reads to the half gram, and it honestly made baking way less stressful.

matthew8642mo ago

That's pretty much exactly what happened to me. I used to be one of those people who was like "a scale is a scale, who cares" and I grabbed a cheap one from a random brand on Amazon. First few batches were okay, but then I tried weighing out my almond flour and it was clearly off. Just like you said, my macarons came out all cracked and hollow. I was so frustrated I almost quit baking them entirely. Switching to a scale that does half grams and actually stays calibrated was a total game changer, I wish I had just done it from the start.

claire_butler14d ago

Oh man, I once thought I was hot stuff with my $10 scale until it called 50 grams of sugar "fine.