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Looking for my Mom's kitchen scale
On Aug 12, 9:13 pm, (axlq) wrote:
> I went looking online for kitchen scales today. Lots of digital > things, but nothing I am looking for. > > For the past 40 years my mother had (from Germany) this incredibly > useful kitchen scale. It needed no batteries, had no moving > mechanism (just a couple parts you move yourself), simple to > operate, fool-proof, etc. That's un-American. > > The whole thing was plastic. It consisted of a measuring cup at > one end of a balance beam, a counterweight at the other end, and a > sliding pivot in the middle, on which the whole scale would balance > on your countertop. The sliding piece had a small bubble-level in > it. Well, not all plastic; the counterweight clearly had some metal > in it and the bubble-level contained liquid. > > You set the sliding thing to point at the weight you want (written > on the balance beam) and fill the measuring cup with ingredients > until the bubble-level shows it's balanced. The scale will then be > sitting on your countertop rocking back and forth on the sliding > pivot. In ASCII art (fixed-width font) it looked something like > this: > > measuring > \ cup / sliding adjustable > \ / pivot counterweight > \__/ ____ ____ > |===============| |=======#### > balance beam \/ > > Of course, being from Germany, the weights on the balance beam were > marked off in grams, and the volume increments on the measuring cup > showed milliliters. That's OK. > > Try as I might, I can't find this device ANYWHERE. Not on eBay, not > on my Google searches, noplace. Are these still sold anymore? > > -A |
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