On Tue, 19 May 2015 10:01:27 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Tue, 19 May 2015 10:37:25 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 May 2015 09:00:49 -0500, Sqwertz >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 19 May 2015 11:37:11 GMT, notbob wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2015-05-19, taxed and spent > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>>>
>>>>> it does 0.01 ounces and 0.001 pounds
>>>>
>>>> Does it do 10 lbs?
>>>>
>>>> Typically, scales trade off preceision for range.
>>>>
>>>> One half ounce to ten pounds is a good range for the kitchen. Finer
>>>> precision typically reduces the range. You can buy scales that do
>>>> 0.01 ounce and will also weigh over 10 lbs, but bring $$$$.
>>>
>>>I never wrote "it does 0.01 ounces and 0.001 pounds". Whoever wrote
>>>that is wrong, if it was referring to Sheldon's scale. It says right
>>>on the scale that it doesn't go less than 1 gram.
>>
>> No one is claiming less than 1 gram.
>
>Looking at Deja-Google due to killfile of anonymous remailers, "taxed
>and spent" wrote that it does increments of grams.
>
>Learn how to read, Pussy Katz.
>
>> 1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams or 1 gram = 1/28.3495231 of an ounce... 1
>> gram is probably more table salt than the average person sprinkles on
>> an egg. A gram is avery small amount of any food, one saltine cracker
>> weighs 3 grams. No one needs a kitchen scale that weighs 1 gram
>> unless they're a crack dealer.
>
>The weight of a teaspoon of most dried herbs is less than half a gram.

No one weighs dried herbs/spices unless they're cooking for the
military... your dwarf fingers can easily pinch a tenth gram.