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Kitchen Tools

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Post: # 21233Unread post worth1
Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:18 am

The other day I was going to weigh out something.
The darn battery on the scales was dead.
In the market for better scales no battery needed.
Next I need a masa grinder.
I keep looking at them and forget to buy one.
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Post: # 21236Unread post brownrexx
Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:32 am

I like digital scales so I need batteries. I have found that the Lithium CR2032 batteries last a good long time. My kitchen scale uses 2 of them and the bathroom scale takes one. Both scales batteries last well over a year before going dead.

I buy my batteries on e-bay and they are a LOT cheaper than in stores. I have several items that use these batteries so I keep a few in the drawer for spares.
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Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:25 am

My favorite one is the KD-8000

This has several modes - Grams, Oz, Lbs/oz, and Lbs, plus a percentage mode, which is great for baking. Has a fairly high capacity - 8,000 g/17.6 lbs. The one I have has an AC adapter, which I use, or can be used with batteries.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/My-Weigh-KD-80 ... SwGBpewfUn
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Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:30 am

I don't know why that link to that scale at Amazon won't work I tried 3 times.
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Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:12 am

pepperhead212 wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:30 am I don't know why that link to that scale at Amazon won't work I tried 3 times.
Works for me.

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Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:50 am

That looks like a good scale.
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Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:08 am

With some of the kooky stuff I do I'm considering counting scales.
You can weigh one of anything and then just add product to get a count of the product.
So if I come up with something that calls for a certain amount of tablespoons I can weigh it and then just dump until said number of tablespoons comes up.
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Wed Jun 03, 2020 1:44 pm

I count out a lot of my tablespoons of things like oil, soy, fish sauce, and other thin liquids, using .5 oz/tb. Thick stuff, like molasses, honey, corn syrup, and the like, are about 1½ times this. Much faster, and neater than spoons. They really aren't good for dry ing., however, though I do have a very small scale for these types of things, as it is accurate to .5 g, and .01oz. I rarely use it - more for chemicals than spices.

That reminds me - that KD-8000 is accurate to .05 oz, while others are mostly to .1 oz.
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Meat slicers

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Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:41 am

In the market for one.
Not shopping at Amazon.
Any suggestions?
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Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:03 am

I buy most things like that through Amazon using the link at the bottom of this forum so that a small percent of the sale comes to the forum to help subsidize it.

I don't have any other suggestions other than to Google the model you want and see who sells it.

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Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:30 am

I like digital scales myself, but I bet you could find one that plugs into an outlet so you don't have to mess with batteries.

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Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:28 pm

That was one of the options included with that scale I showed - you can use an ac adaptor, or batteries. I have never used batteries in it!
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Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:10 pm

worth1 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:41 am In the market for one.
Not shopping at Amazon.
Any suggestions?
I think that's an Ebay link.
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Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:23 pm

mikestuff49 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:10 pm
worth1 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:41 am In the market for one.
Not shopping at Amazon.
Any suggestions?
I think that's an Ebay link.
No just meat slicers.
I dont shop on Amazon for what ever reason but mostly because I just go direct.
What I wanted to know regardless of who has it is some sort of review on the things.
I dont want to be under powered nor do I want to pay a kings ransom for one either.
When I buy this type stuff I go by watts converted to the size of the blade and the total toque of the machine.
Sounds complicated as all get out and hard to explain.
It is like you get a big cutting blade but no horse power if you get the wrong thing.
This happened to me with a blender that toasted on the first run.
Big capacity plus low watt motor spells doom.
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Sun Aug 02, 2020 12:58 pm

Looked at a few slicers in YouTube and glad I did.
One of the cheaper 99 dollar ones and all that type sound like you fired off a skill saw in the house.
And the motor bogs down.
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:01 am

Going to re visit the Kitchen scales thing this thread started with.
Yesterday I finally remembered to buy a battery for the scales.
It has been months.
I took the old battery out and there was a wee bit of moisture where the battery made contact, not good.
Dry it out and tried the battery again.
Still same crazy stuff on read out.
Gonna get a new battery anyway.
Brought battery home and still same crazy stuff on read out.
Darn.
Left cover off the place where the battery goes and left it over night.
Put old battery in and it works again and accurate too.
Got two new batteries on stand by.
This isn't the first time I have had to dry out electronics to get them to work again.
I'm happy I have my scales back. :D
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:23 pm

So how did those electronics get wet to begin with? I think that's what you have to figure out. What kind of battery does that take - a standard, or something unique? I just replaced the two AA batteries in that really old scale of mine - two rechargeables, that last a long time, and it starts getting lighter, and eventually dead, but comes right back!
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:36 pm

Probably me being careless with it.
Takes the coin battery 2032.
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:14 pm

If a person were inclined to do so they could make one of these battery ran scales run off of an AC to DC transformer adapter.
You can get them cheap and they are filtered so they dont burn up electronics.
Or you could even convert one to run off of any regular set of single cell batteries you wanted.
Two of any AA AAA C D and so on connected correctly will put out 3 volts.
The 9 volt batteries are really 6 1.5 volt batteries connected together to make 9 volts.
You can connect 3 of these 9 volt batteries together with no tools what so ever to make 27 volts.
I do it to test solenoid valves.
I just about bet the two AA batteries in scales are connected in series to make 3 volts.
Parallel would increase amps = power availability but the volts would still be 1.5.
Is it practical, 'no, 'But it can be done.
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Sun Sep 20, 2020 5:25 pm

Introducing the MI Taco Stand.
This one is for my buddy [mention]peebee[/mention]
But of course I will try to copy and make my own. :roll:
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