I'm on my second scale--bought the first years ago--and wouldn't consider making bread without one any more. I do the dough in a bread machine, then shape it and bake it myself; I can put the machine pan on the scale and turn it on after I've put in the liquids and salt, then scoop in the flour by weight. The scale is also useful, in a 2-person household, for--an example--taking half of a one-pound container of strawberries out and rinsing them off and then dividing them equally between us, something I could never do by sight.

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