It has an auto-shutoff when it turns off in five minutes after being inactive (while the timer is off); The Parallel is the big brother of the Arc and Incline. With its large footprint it'll occupy quite a bit of space at your brew bar.

The accuracy has been improved up to 0.1 g, which helps to brew the coffee or espresso with good precision.The Brewista Smart coffee scales are suitable for both the beginner and the professional user. It is a smart scale which has been redesigned to meets the need of the coffee users. It’s more water-resistant than the previous model with its sealed body and its silicone platform pad. There's a new version now, I've updated the links above to show you the price of the new “plus” version.

Sure you can get your phone out and pull up the stopwatch and then try and look at the scales and your phone at the same time so that you get the exact weight correct for a double espresso and then hit the stop button on your phone to see how long it took. Going down to 1/100 th of a gram is not really required for coffee and those kinds of scales are mainly used for things like jewelry where it matters for things like high-quality diamonds. The same goes for filter coffee machines. Weigh out about 65g of coffee for every litre of water added and that will provide the right balance for great filter coffee. Filter coffee is one of the best ways to enjoy great at a low cost. This article explains why: Felicita Arc is the perfect espresso scale! Precision to 0.1gram,total capacity of 2000g and with an inbuilt timer - you can be sure that your coffee will be perfect every time! A big advantage of the Arc is that it is big enough for a portafilter and small enough to fit under an espresso machine to weigh your espresso shot.Accurate, rapid & reactive, Felicita scales would make a vital impact from your appreciation of coffee weighing to another level!

Felicita Parallel, has a lithium-ion USB charge which is different to the Arc Scale. The accessories which are included are ‘removable heat resistant rubber mat’, ‘100g calibration weight’&‘Micro USB charging cable’. These scales seem to share the same lag or latency issue with the Hario scales and with most of the other cheaper coffee scales, which possibly isn't a massive issue for pourover or other manual brew methods but would be a pain for espresso. Coffee shops are pretty unforgiving environments for electricals, and the crossover of an accurate set of scales that is up to the task of being covered in ground coffee, steaming water and the bumps and bruises from nearby portafilters is pretty limited. They're made to be used for hours & hours at a time in coffee shops and to give baristas all the functionalities and features they might need, and as a result, they're not cheap – but there are plenty of scales above which will suit most home baristas at a much more reasonable price point, so you really don't need to spend this kind of money if you don't want to.

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The Hario V60 coffee drip scale is a great bit of kit if you are serious about your morning pour over. The scales measure to 0.1g of accuracy and the integrated timer means you will be able to brew extremely accurate coffee.

To date, coffee shops have typically relied on a set of Acaia or Hario scales. Acaia offer robust, water-resistant models suited to being next to an espresso machine, whilst Hario are more suited to the filter brew bar and are more affordable It has the 100% satisfaction guarantee: if you’re not happy with the scale you can return it within 30 days. Have a tendency to not be particularly precise with the weight, and can suffer from weight variance, meaning that if you put something on the scale, tare it and then weigh it again, you can get a different result. You'll find that many of the cheaper sets of coffee scales are battery powered, while most (not all) of the mid range and higher priced scales are usually rechargeable. Power: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery with reportedly up to 20 hours of continuous use per charge. Micro USB.

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With coffee scales, though, you're going to be using them on a daily basis, maybe several times per day, so you're more likely to have to replace batteries with coffee scales than you might with standard kitchen scales.