Etekcity EK6015 11 lb Stainless Kitchen Scale

What the maker puts in writing

• “Effortless Weighing: Supports 5 units (oz/lb:oz/fl’oz/g/mL), tare function, and includes 2 AAA batteries for hassle-free operation”
• “Precise Results: Accurately weighs up to 11 lb/5 kg with 1 g (0.04 oz) increments”
• “Simple & Compact: The small and sleek scale is a perfect fit for most kitchens, occupying little space and easily storable in cabinets”
• “Easy to Clean: Just wipe down the 304 food-grade stainless steel surfaces to keep clean”
• “LCD Display: Backlit LCD screen with large fonts for easy reading”
• Reference EK6015 · Catalog: 200 g (7.1 oz), 192 × 157 × 19 mm (7.56 × 6.18 × 0.75 in)

Two hundred grams and nineteen millimeters, the slimmest scale here

The shelf, by weight:

this — 200 g · SOYOK 222 g · GGQ 250 g · Greater Goods 367 g · Amazon Basics 381 g · Escali 431 g · KitchenAid 535 g · Letron 544 g · Etekcity nutritional 544 g · OXO 5 lb 581 g · Etekcity USB 700 g · OXO 11 lb 816 g

The most expensive scale on this shelf weighs four times this one.

And the lightness is the selling point of bullet three: “The small and sleek scale is a perfect fit for most kitchens, occupying little space and easily storable in cabinets.”

At 19 millimeters thick it goes in a drawer, which several rivals cannot. By catalog height: the KitchenAid at $23.99 is 53 mm, the OXO 5 lb at $37.95 is 46 mm, the Letron at $34.99 is 47 mm, the Amazon Basics at $11.14 is 32 mm, the Escali at $25 is 30 mm. The two cheapest scales here — the SOYOK and the Ultrean — are 15 mm, slimmer still.

What it costs is stability.

A kitchen scale is routinely used with a bowl standing on it that you then pour into and stir. Two hundred grams under a two-kilogram bowl is fine. Two hundred grams under an empty bowl being knocked is not.

Two scales on this shelf address that mechanically: the SOYOK at $6.98 with “four anti-slip bases” and a “rounded corner design” against edge collisions, and the GGQ at $17.98 with “4 no-slip rubbers” and a 7.5” × 5.5” platform sold on “more stability and space for larger containers”.

This page publishes neither feet nor platform size.

And stability is not only convenience. A strain-gauge scale measures the deflection of a beam, so a scale not resting evenly on all four feet reads wrong — consistently, and without telling you.

The catalog body is 192 × 157 mm — about 7.6 × 6.2 inches. Only four scales on this shelf publish a dimension of any kind: the Amazon Basics at $11.14 (8.3 × 7 × 1.3 in overall), the Escali at $25 (8.5 × 6 × 1.5 in overall), the Greater Goods at $24.99 (7.6 × 5.6 × 1.3 in overall) and the GGQ at $17.98, the only one to publish the platform rather than the body.

One gram, which is the resolution of at least twelve of the fifteen scales here

“Accurately weighs up to 11 lb/5 kg with 1 g increments”

Plainly stated, which is more than one rival manages — the Ultrean at $6.98 publishes no resolution at all.

The shelf, by resolution: 1 g / 0.05 oz — this and eight others · 11 lb × 0.1 oz and 5,000 g × 1 g — the KitchenAid at $23.99, which also publishes a separate liquid figure · 1/8 ounce and 1 gram — both OXO scales · 0.01 g on one platform — the Letron at $34.99, the only scale here finer than a gram.

Why one gram is not enough for some things.

A sachet of dried yeast is about 7 g. At ±1 g that is ±14 percent — the difference between a dough that proves in an hour and one that takes three. Three grams of salt in a loaf is ±33 percent, and salt governs flavor and fermentation speed together. Baking powder, bicarbonate and ground spices sit in the same range.

What one gram is exactly right for is everything else. 500 g of flour at ±1 g is ±0.2 percent, finer than any recipe needs — and the same for sugar, butter, water, meat, pasta and portions.

One gram is the resolution of flour, not of salt. And the only page on this shelf to state a limit in its own words is the Greater Goods at $24.99: “Not for laboratory or microgram measurements.”

The figure this page does not publish is the other half of the question: the minimum weighable load.

Five of the thirteen scales sold on Amazon.com publish one: 2 g — the Amazon Basics at $11.14 (“2 grams minimum”) and the Etekcity USB at $29.99 (“as light as 2 g”) · 3 g — the GGQ at $17.98 and the Etekcity nutritional at $39.99 · 0.01 g — the Letron’s mini platform.

Resolution is the step; the minimum is the floor. A 1-gram scale with a 2-gram floor shows 0 for 1.5 g — so a pinch of salt or a gram of saffron is simply not there. That is not imprecision, it is a refusal to weigh, and on this page the floor is unstated.

The workaround nobody here suggests: weigh small ingredients by multiplying. Ten grams of yeast weighed once and divided by eye beats one gram weighed ten times.

Five units, and three of them are a density assumption

“Supports 5 units (oz/lb:oz/fl’oz/g/mL)”

Across the shelf: six — the SOYOK at $6.98 and the Ultrean at $6.98, adding kg and milk ml · five — this, the Amazon Basics at $11.14, the GGQ at $17.98, the Etekcity USB at $29.99 · four — the Letron at $34.99 · three — the Escali at $25, which has the fewest units here and the only lifetime warranty.

What a scale is doing when it shows you milliliters or fluid ounces. It cannot measure volume. It measures mass and divides by an assumed density, and the assumption is water, at 1.00 gram per milliliter.

So a milliliter reading on any scale here is a water reading. Anything denser than water reads low on it — syrup, honey, oil the other way, milk by three percent.

Which is why five scales on this shelf offer a second volume mode for milk, at about 1.03 g/ml: the SOYOK, the Ultrean (“Yes! It includes milk volume measurement”), the Etekcity USB (“milliliters (milk and water)”) and the Etekcity nutritional at $39.99 (“g (water & milk)/ml (water & milk)”).

The entire content of that feature is a three percent difference — about 8 ml on 250, about 30 ml on a liter.

This page offers plain ml and fl oz and no milk mode, which is the more honest arrangement: one density assumption rather than two, and the user left to know which.

The habit that beats all of it: weigh liquids in grams. A mass in grams can be checked against the packet; a converted volume cannot — and 1 ml of water is 1 g, which makes most recipes a straight substitution.

And “lb:oz” is worth distinguishing from “oz”. “lb:oz” shows 2 lb 3 oz; “oz” shows 35 oz. American recipes use both, and a scale that offers one and not the other forces arithmetic. This offers both, as do the Escali at $25, the Etekcity USB at $29.99 and the Etekcity nutritional at $39.99.

One caution: the unit does not necessarily reset on power-up. Check the display before you trust the number.

Three hundred and four, named — which three of the thirteen scales sold on Amazon.com manage

“Just wipe down the 304 food-grade stainless steel surfaces to keep clean”

The three that name the grade: this, the Ultrean at $6.98, and the Etekcity nutritional at $39.99.

The rest of the shelf: stainless, unqualified — the SOYOK at $6.98, the GGQ at $17.98, the Greater Goods at $24.99, the OXO at $64.95 (“Stainless Steel is smudge and fingerprint-resistant”) · glass — the KitchenAid at $23.99 · stainless and glass — the Letron at $34.99 · a steel platform on BPA-free plastic — the Amazon Basics at $11.14 · “Chrome”, no material stated — the Escali at $25.

What 304 is. An austenitic stainless with roughly 18 percent chromium and 8 percent nickel — the standard food-contact grade, and the one that does not pit or stain from acid.

Which matters because of what lands on a scale platform: lemon juice, vinegar, brine, raw meat. A lesser grade marks. 304 does not.

What it does not change is the reading. The load cell is underneath; the platform is a cover. 304 buys a surface that still looks new in five years, not a better measurement.

And “wipe down” is the right limit on the care instruction, which this page states and most of the shelf does not.

A steel top is not a sealed body. One scale here publishes a water rating: the Etekcity USB at $29.99 — “IPX6 waterproof design, allowing you to easily measure liquids and wipe the scale clean”. Two claim waterproofing without one: the SOYOK (“more waterproof and wear-resistant”) and the GGQ (“waterproof Anti-collision glass weighing panel”). One forbids it outright: the KitchenAid at $23.99 — “Hand wash only; do not immerse in water or put in dishwasher; for best results, wipe with a damp cloth and dry thoroughly.”

And both OXO scales solve it mechanically: “Platform removes for hand washing.”

Keep water out of the button seams and the battery hatch, and dry it.

A backlit display with large fonts, and the problem it does not solve

“Backlit LCD screen with large fonts for easy reading”

Four scales on this shelf publish a backlight: this, the SOYOK at $6.98 (a “night vision mode”), the Ultrean at $6.98 (a “negative white digital display”) and the OXO 5 lb at $37.95 (“optional backlight”). The Greater Goods at $24.99 publishes a “bright Hi-Def LCD” without calling it backlit.

And “large fonts” is this page’s legibility claim. No scale on this shelf publishes a digit height or a display size — “wide LCD screen” (Amazon Basics), “Hi-Def” (Greater Goods), “large, easy-to-read numbers” (both OXO) and “large fonts” here are the whole vocabulary.

What none of that solves is the geometry. The platform sits above the display, so a bowl wider than the body covers the number you need — and a backlight does not shine through a mixing bowl.

Two scales on this shelf attack it properly, and eleven do not:

Both OXO models, $37.95 and $64.95 — “Display pulls away from base to avoid shadowing from plates or bowls” Greater Goods, $24.99 — “the bright Hi-Def LCD display extends beyond the weighing platform for better visibility under large mixing bowls”

The practical workaround on every other scale here, including this one: weigh into a bowl narrower than the body, or read the number before the bowl goes down and use tare afterwards.

What is not published

No minimum weighable load, as above, where five scales here publish one.

No auto shutoff duration. The figures on this shelf vary by a factor of two and a half: 2 minutes — the SOYOK at $6.98, the GGQ at $17.98, the Greater Goods at $24.99 · 3 minutes — the KitchenAid at $23.99 · 4 minutes — the Escali at $25 · 5 minutes — the Letron at $34.99 · unspecified — the Ultrean at $6.98 · nothing at all — this, the Amazon Basics, the Etekcity USB, the Etekcity nutritional and both OXO scales.

Why it matters: a multi-ingredient recipe is weighed cumulatively — bowl on, tare, flour in, tare — and a scale that switches off between two additions loses the zero, so the bowl comes off, the scale restarts, and the flour already in it becomes part of the tare. The Greater Goods answers it with the only timed HOLD on this shelf: “keep readings on screen for up to 5 minutes.”

No HOLD function, where three scales here have one.

No platform size, as above.

No anti-slip feet, as above — on the lightest scale on this shelf.

No overload or low-battery warning, where the SOYOK at $6.98 and the GGQ at $17.98 publish both. An overload warning protects the load cell: pushing a strain gauge past its capacity bends it permanently, after which the scale reads consistently wrong rather than failing outright, which is worse.

No warranty. Three items on this shelf publish something: the Escali at $25 — a lifetime warranty, the only one here · the Greater Goods at $24.99 — 5 years limited plus “lifetime support from our St. Louis team” · the GGQ at $17.98 — “12 Months Support”. Ten publish nothing, including the $64.95 OXO.

No country of manufacture, which no item on this shelf publishes.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $14 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.