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		<title>By: roni</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-34934</link>
		<dc:creator>roni</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[not really but if mine breaks I&#039;d like to give another a try! This will be the first on my list. :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>not really but if mine breaks I&#8217;d like to give another a try! This will be the first on my list. :)</p>
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		<title>By: Paige</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-34842</link>
		<dc:creator>Paige</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re welcome! Are you in the market for a new one?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>You&#8217;re welcome! Are you in the market for a new one?</p>
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		<title>By: roni</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-34833</link>
		<dc:creator>roni</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks so much!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Thanks so much!!</p>
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		<title>By: Paige</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-34832</link>
		<dc:creator>Paige</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJMTNA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=roswewapas-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000WJMTNA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oxo Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000WJMTNA&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;

Exactly the same, just with a bit bigger footprint and a 11 pound instead of 5 pound capacity.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>I have this one: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJMTNA?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=roswewapas-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000WJMTNA" rel="nofollow">Oxo Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000WJMTNA" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></p>
<p>Exactly the same, just with a bit bigger footprint and a 11 pound instead of 5 pound capacity.</p>
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		<title>By: roni</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-34828</link>
		<dc:creator>roni</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paige - 

Is it this one?

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0020L6T7K?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=roswewapas-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0020L6T7K&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OXO Good Grips 1157100 5-Pound Food Scale with Pull-Out Display&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0020L6T7K&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Paige &#8211; </p>
<p>Is it this one?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0020L6T7K?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=roswewapas-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0020L6T7K" rel="nofollow">OXO Good Grips 1157100 5-Pound Food Scale with Pull-Out Display</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0020L6T7K" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></p>
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		<title>By: Paige</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-34590</link>
		<dc:creator>Paige</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been going through your old podcasts and saw a link to this post in the comments of one of them. I have to speak up for my scale because I LOVE it. I used to have a Salter one, but after a year or so it went crazy. No matter how fresh the batteries were, it the weight would go all over the place while weighing something: 450 grams, -300 grams, etc. To replace it, I turned to Oxo, which I swear I could be a rep for since so many of their products have solved little kitchen problems with their great design. 

So I got the Oxo Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display. The things that I love about it are:

1. To begin, the regular stuff: grams or ounces, switch between while measuring, zeros out, etc. 
2. Backlight - I didn&#039;t think I would use this but I have several times. 
3. Smooth buttons - easy to clean.
4. The weighing plate comes off, so it&#039;s easy to clean too.
5. It remembers the weight of something for 45 minutes or something? So if you&#039;re weighing something but the scale turns off (as most do automatically after a few minutes of inactivity), you can just press the power button, and rather than coming back on at &quot;0&quot;, it comes back on at whatever the weight of the item is. I used to compulsively press on the bowl or whatever was on my scale, to keep the scale active to make sure it didn&#039;t turn off. No more!
6. On/Off button. This isn&#039;t why I bought it by any means, but it is nice when I&#039;m just weighing one thing really quickly, and I don&#039;t have to drain the battery life waiting for it to turn off automatically. 
7. High capacity - it will hold 11 pounds, which is really great when I make a big pot of soup, for example. I make a lot of food ahead, and I hate portioning it out, then ending up with a half serving at the end, and trying to take a little from each Tupperware container to make them even. Instead, I&#039;ve weighed all of my pots, dishes, mixing bowls, etc. and taped the weights (in grams, so much easier) to the inside of my cupboard door. Then I make a bunch of food in one of the pots, put the pot full of food on the scale, subtract the pot&#039;s weight, and divide by the number of portions. I couldn&#039;t do this if it didn&#039;t hold so much weight. It also has a little bar that fills up as you use up the scale&#039;s weight, which might happen if you&#039;re measuring a bunch of things, and zeroing the scale out between each addition. It shows when you&#039;re approaching the &quot;error zone&quot; where the scale won&#039;t weigh.
8. The reason I bought it! The part that has the display and buttons attaches to the rest magnetically. When it&#039;s all put together it just looks like a normal scale. But you can pull the two apart and a little cord comes out to connect the display to the base. You can pull the display from the base maybe 8 inches? 12? Either way, far enough that you can easily weigh anything. With my old scale, weighing a plate or a big pot was really difficult, because the big size of it covered the display. I had to crouch down and use a flashlight to try to see what the weight was. This feature totally solves that problem. 

OK, done. I totally sound like a sales pitch! But, now that I&#039;ve written all that out, I think I&#039;ll copy/paste to an Amazon review of the thing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>I&#8217;ve been going through your old podcasts and saw a link to this post in the comments of one of them. I have to speak up for my scale because I LOVE it. I used to have a Salter one, but after a year or so it went crazy. No matter how fresh the batteries were, it the weight would go all over the place while weighing something: 450 grams, -300 grams, etc. To replace it, I turned to Oxo, which I swear I could be a rep for since so many of their products have solved little kitchen problems with their great design. </p>
<p>So I got the Oxo Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display. The things that I love about it are:</p>
<p>1. To begin, the regular stuff: grams or ounces, switch between while measuring, zeros out, etc.<br />
2. Backlight &#8211; I didn&#8217;t think I would use this but I have several times.<br />
3. Smooth buttons &#8211; easy to clean.<br />
4. The weighing plate comes off, so it&#8217;s easy to clean too.<br />
5. It remembers the weight of something for 45 minutes or something? So if you&#8217;re weighing something but the scale turns off (as most do automatically after a few minutes of inactivity), you can just press the power button, and rather than coming back on at &#8220;0&#8243;, it comes back on at whatever the weight of the item is. I used to compulsively press on the bowl or whatever was on my scale, to keep the scale active to make sure it didn&#8217;t turn off. No more!<br />
6. On/Off button. This isn&#8217;t why I bought it by any means, but it is nice when I&#8217;m just weighing one thing really quickly, and I don&#8217;t have to drain the battery life waiting for it to turn off automatically.<br />
7. High capacity &#8211; it will hold 11 pounds, which is really great when I make a big pot of soup, for example. I make a lot of food ahead, and I hate portioning it out, then ending up with a half serving at the end, and trying to take a little from each Tupperware container to make them even. Instead, I&#8217;ve weighed all of my pots, dishes, mixing bowls, etc. and taped the weights (in grams, so much easier) to the inside of my cupboard door. Then I make a bunch of food in one of the pots, put the pot full of food on the scale, subtract the pot&#8217;s weight, and divide by the number of portions. I couldn&#8217;t do this if it didn&#8217;t hold so much weight. It also has a little bar that fills up as you use up the scale&#8217;s weight, which might happen if you&#8217;re measuring a bunch of things, and zeroing the scale out between each addition. It shows when you&#8217;re approaching the &#8220;error zone&#8221; where the scale won&#8217;t weigh.<br />
8. The reason I bought it! The part that has the display and buttons attaches to the rest magnetically. When it&#8217;s all put together it just looks like a normal scale. But you can pull the two apart and a little cord comes out to connect the display to the base. You can pull the display from the base maybe 8 inches? 12? Either way, far enough that you can easily weigh anything. With my old scale, weighing a plate or a big pot was really difficult, because the big size of it covered the display. I had to crouch down and use a flashlight to try to see what the weight was. This feature totally solves that problem. </p>
<p>OK, done. I totally sound like a sales pitch! But, now that I&#8217;ve written all that out, I think I&#8217;ll copy/paste to an Amazon review of the thing.</p>
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		<title>By: Michele</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-3668</link>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Digital Chef Mate I bought at Target.  It was 29.99.  I LOVE it!  It also weighs in grams and ounces (although I don&#039;t know if you can switch between the two - never tried that).  It also has the zero out feature.  It&#039;s on my counter all the time.  I use it constantly!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>I have a Digital Chef Mate I bought at Target.  It was 29.99.  I LOVE it!  It also weighs in grams and ounces (although I don&#8217;t know if you can switch between the two &#8211; never tried that).  It also has the zero out feature.  It&#8217;s on my counter all the time.  I use it constantly!</p>
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		<title>By: Joanne</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-3664</link>
		<dc:creator>Joanne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have this one and love it! It has all the features I need (grams vs ounces, tare, 11 pound capacity) and is very reasonably priced. It&#039;s always on my counter.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001707OL0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=roswewapas-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001707OL0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Escali Primo Digital Multifunctional Scale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001707OL0&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>I have this one and love it! It has all the features I need (grams vs ounces, tare, 11 pound capacity) and is very reasonably priced. It&#8217;s always on my counter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001707OL0?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=roswewapas-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001707OL0" rel="nofollow">Escali Primo Digital Multifunctional Scale</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B001707OL0" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></p>
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		<title>By: karen</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-3630</link>
		<dc:creator>karen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for info on food scales.
I have been on WW for 1 year 30 lbs lighter yea
often thought I should get a scales to get down to the nitty gritty and losse my other 20 lbs.
I love new recipes and love to cook. Love to eat too. :)
love your web site........:)
I just love life...........
karen]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Thanks for info on food scales.<br />
I have been on WW for 1 year 30 lbs lighter yea<br />
often thought I should get a scales to get down to the nitty gritty and losse my other 20 lbs.<br />
I love new recipes and love to cook. Love to eat too. :)<br />
love your web site&#8230;&#8230;..:)<br />
I just love life&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br />
karen</p>
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		<title>By: Briana</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-3620</link>
		<dc:creator>Briana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check how it measures the amount before you buy it. The first scale I purchased measured using fractions instead of decimals. It was really annoying. 

Now I have the EatSmart Scale that I won from weightwatchen.com :) I love it! I love that I don&#039;t really have to look up the pts value for meats, cause I hate doing that. I can just throw it on the scale, and it will tell me cal, fat and fiber. Also, anything fresh, like fruit, veggies, etc since the pts are usually 1 pt for medium sized fruit. I am a bad judge of that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Check how it measures the amount before you buy it. The first scale I purchased measured using fractions instead of decimals. It was really annoying. </p>
<p>Now I have the EatSmart Scale that I won from weightwatchen.com :) I love it! I love that I don&#8217;t really have to look up the pts value for meats, cause I hate doing that. I can just throw it on the scale, and it will tell me cal, fat and fiber. Also, anything fresh, like fruit, veggies, etc since the pts are usually 1 pt for medium sized fruit. I am a bad judge of that.</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you so much for answering my question! 
Greenlitebites is awesome!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Thank you so much for answering my question!<br />
Greenlitebites is awesome!</p>
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		<title>By: Jami</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jami</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mine is the Salter Aquatronic Scale for $59.99 and I got it at Linens N Things.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000698A66?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=roswewapas-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000698A66&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Salter Aquatronic Glass Kitchen Scale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000698A66&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;

I love it, as it measures ounces, grams, fluid ounces and mL and it also has the zero out feature.  It&#039;s stainless steel and glass and looks great on my counter, just like Roni, I don&#039;t put it away.  Although I should.  I had to replace it when some of my Longaberger pottery came crashing out of the kitchen cabinet and landed on top of it.  Wasn&#039;t pretty.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Mine is the Salter Aquatronic Scale for $59.99 and I got it at Linens N Things.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000698A66?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=roswewapas-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000698A66" rel="nofollow">Salter Aquatronic Glass Kitchen Scale</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=roswewapas-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000698A66" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></p>
<p>I love it, as it measures ounces, grams, fluid ounces and mL and it also has the zero out feature.  It&#8217;s stainless steel and glass and looks great on my counter, just like Roni, I don&#8217;t put it away.  Although I should.  I had to replace it when some of my Longaberger pottery came crashing out of the kitchen cabinet and landed on top of it.  Wasn&#8217;t pretty.</p>
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		<title>By: Spoodles</title>
		<link>http://greenlitebites.com/2008/04/22/ask-roni-food-scales/comment-page-1/#comment-3567</link>
		<dc:creator>Spoodles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Target has a variety of food scales in their generic housewares brand (although I can&#039;t find my particular one on the website).  It is similar to yours (except you can&#039;t switch between grams and ounces while measuring).  At $30, it&#039;s a pretty sweet deal and I use it religiously.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Target has a variety of food scales in their generic housewares brand (although I can&#8217;t find my particular one on the website).  It is similar to yours (except you can&#8217;t switch between grams and ounces while measuring).  At $30, it&#8217;s a pretty sweet deal and I use it religiously.</p>
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