Propert Slimline Glass Digital

Don't waste your money – Second kitchen scales in 4 months. First Propert scales (different model) returned not working. Current slimline scale was touchy to use. Began displaying 'Lo' - replaced batteries and stopped working altogether.

Very fussy about the batteries – Does work ok but it’s very fussy about the batteries. Now I can’t get it to use perfectly good new Panasonic batteries. Shows low battery all the time. Even when it does accept batteries it’s very bad about indicating when the batteries need to be replaced and just shows a very bad weight value. Completely unviable scales.

Fantastic product, can't fault it, love the small size in a small kitchen - but auto-off is far too – Was given these scales as a much needed gift having gotten in to bread making & baking a lot more. They are fantastic, easy to clean, easy to deal with when your hands are covered in dough! Only downside is the auto-off is quite quick so if you buy them be smarter than me and keep the manual which i've no doubt includes a simple instruction on how to disable this! Now to post a question here and see if anyone else knows.

Accurate and reliable – I have the Propert Easy Hang model, I thought I would do a review because I have owned them for a long time now (pretty sure I got them in 2012 or earlier). On top these are made of stainless steel, they did come with a few accessories for weighing different things. In the early days I used them to weigh all sorts of items, and for bigger items putting the supplied plastic container on the scale and then balancing the larger item on top of that worked well (you could even weight a bike wheel haha).

The main reason I chose these for the kitchen is because they have an accuracy to 1g and go up to 5kg. It's pretty hard (or expensive) to get scales with good accuracy that are still capable of measuring significantly large weigths.

Anyway over time I have found them to be accurate and even though it's a flat scale I've found it's still generally easy to read the display.

It takes 3 AAA batteries...which is great because they're the type people generally have spare at home. However I am surprised that the batteries do last a really long time even with regular use.

And I certainly do use them regularly, most often for measuring out flour and water etc to make bread in my bread machine..... yes I'm one of the rare people that hasn't relegated it to sitting in the cupboard.

The hanging feature is great but granted may not be utilised in a lot of home kitchens. I'm finding it handy in the current house we're renting anyway as it can hang from a rack that also holds tea towels etc.

The one thing that does annoy me (being a digital display and buttons) is that whenever you clean it the scale will turn on if you touch any of the buttons.

Considering I've had it many years there are also a couple of tiny rust spots evident around the display.

Before purchasing I did research and at the time the brand seemed reputable, the max weight and accuracy was suitable for what I wanted and I must say I have been happy with it over the years. In my kitchen it's a pretty essential item, today I've used it to measure out ingredients for making sourdough, and of course it's crucial every time I have to feed my sourdough starter, if the scale was to fail it would be my worst nightmare, maybe the importance is just for the simple things but sometimes in life the simple things are the ones that matter most.

5kg slimline glass digital kitchen scales – These scales have made baking so much more easier with measuring for me and makes baking much more fun! The scales are very easy to use, and very easy to understand. As now I don't need to go through the cupboard draw looking for all the measuring cups that I need to use. Easy to read screen, Easy to change unit measurements, Looks nice.