Tanguy Ortolo

Dear manufacturers of kitchen scales, could you please stop considering your clients as idiots, and start developing useful features?

Liquid measurement: this is one feature that is available on almost every electronic scale available. Except it is completely useless to people that use the metric system, as all it does is replace the usual display in grammes by centilitres and divide the number on display by ten. Thank you, but no person that has been to school in a country that uses the metric system needs electronic assistance to determine the volume corresponding to a given weight of water, and for people that have not, a simple note written on the scale, stating that “for water or milk, divide the weight in grammes by ten to get the volume in centilitres” should be enough.

Now, there is still one thing that an electronic scale could be useful for, which is determining the volume of liquids other than water (density 1 g/ml) or milk (density approx. equal to 1 g/ml), most importantly: oil (density approx. equal to .92 g/ml for edible oils like sunflower, peanut, olive and canola).