Digital Scales
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Overview
Digital scales are generally preferred in the West to Analog Scales due to their ease of use and convenience. While not necessary, some tea drinkers like to have a digital scale to measure their dry leaves, so that they may achieve a more consistent result in brewing. Many feel that digital scales interfere with their enjoyment of making tea, but this is largely a matter of personal opinion.
Recommended Features
To be useful in tea brewing, it is important that the digital scale be precise enough to measure to the 0.1 gram level, and preferably the 0.05 gram level. Precision to the 0.01 gram level is certainly acceptable, but few argue that this amount of precision is necessary, and this feature is often accompanied by a significantly larger price tag. (The ounce unit is too large to be useful in measuring tea for brewing.) Some scales measure in units of "cupweight," where 1 cupweight equals 2.25 grams.
You may also wish to purchase a scale with a capacity of a few hundred grams, if you wish to measure larger amounts of tea for sales or gifts. Many tea drinkers have found that smaller "pocket scales" are handier to use than larger "kitchen" or "postal" scales. Some of the more popular scale models among tea drinkers have a lid that can be used as a weighing tray for the tea. Such lids also make it easier to funnel the weighed tea into a teapot.
Recommended Models
My Weigh 200-Z, 300-Z, or 400-Z
Features:
- Precision: 0.1 gram
- Capacity: 200, 300, or 400 grams respectively
- Other: Protective cover doubles as weigh boat, which is a good size for holding a single serving of dry tea leaves.
- My Weigh also offers the 200 and 400 gram models in an eco-friendly hemp composite plastic. These models are known as the 200-ZH and the 400-ZH
