We analysed the Amazon.co.uk subcategory Kitchen Scales and kept only products with at least 200 reviews and 4.3 stars. Ranked by estimated monthly revenue, the ten below cost between £4.99 and £42.97 and are not all the same tool: two are nutrition scales that talk to an app, one is an espresso scale with a shot timer, and one is a 500 g pocket scale that will not take a mixing bowl.
Rank 33 across the entire store and 118,220 ratings — more reviews than the other nine entries here put together, at £6.59 and around 13,174 units a month.
Check the price on AmazonRank 33 across the entire store and 118,220 ratings — more reviews than the other nine entries here put together, at £6.59 and around 13,174 units a month.
A tempered glass platform and a backlit display for under a tenner, second by revenue on roughly 8,083 units a month.
A calorie-counting scale rather than a baking one: the value sits in the app and its UK food database, and it reached rank 3 on only 590 reviews.
Under £6 for 1 g steps on a steel platform, and bestseller rank 70 in the whole store says the volume behind that is real rather than a spike.
The most expensive scale in this top ten at £42.97 — more than six times the Amazon Basics for the same 5 kg ceiling, which is what the brand and the build cost you here.
0.1 g steps across the full 5 kg range plus a percentage mode for baker maths — the entry here aimed squarely at sourdough and coffee rather than at general cooking.
The second nutrition scale in the ranking: £5 under the Cosori, with 23 tracked nutrients claimed against its 19, and an LED rather than an LCD display.
A coffee scale rather than a kitchen one: 2 kg ceiling, 0.1 g steps and a built-in shot timer, sized to sit under a portafilter rather than under a mixing bowl.
Two weighing platforms in one body — 15 kg in 1 g steps for dough, 500 g in 0.01 g steps for salt and yeast — and the strongest score in this list at 4.8 stars.
The cheapest entry at £4.99 and a pocket scale rather than a kitchen one: 500 g maximum, so it weighs yeast and spices but never a bowl of flour.
| Product | Score | Stars | Reviews | Feature | Material | Price | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. Amazon Basics Digital Kitchen Scale (11 lb) Best seller Amazon Basics · Amazon Basics |
9.4 | 4.6 ★ | 118,220 | 11 lb · LCD | Stainless steel | £6.59 | Amazon › |
| 02. ACCUWEIGHT 201 Glass Kitchen Scale, 5 kg ACCUWEIGHT · ACCUWEIGHT |
9.0 | 4.5 ★ | 35,852 | 5 kg · glass top | Tempered glass | £9.98 | Amazon › |
| 03. Cosori Smart Nutrition Kitchen Scale Cosori · Cosori |
8.0 | 4.4 ★ | 590 | app · 19 nutrients | Stainless steel | £29.99 | Amazon › |
| 04. HomeFashion 5 kg Digital Kitchen Scale HomeFashion · HomeFashion |
8.7 | 4.5 ★ | 8,709 | 5 kg · 1 g steps | Stainless steel | £5.99 | Amazon › |
| 05. OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Scale, 5 kg OXO · OXO |
9.0 | 4.7 ★ | 8,421 | 5 kg · stainless | Stainless steel | £42.97 | Amazon › |
| 06. BOMATA 5 kg Scale, 0.1 g, USB Rechargeable BOMATA · BOMATA |
8.3 | 4.5 ★ | 1,367 | 5 kg · 0.1 g · USB | Stainless steel | £26.99 | Amazon › |
| 07. Letron Smart Nutrition Scale, 5 kg Letron · Letron |
8.6 | 4.5 ★ | 5,024 | app · 23 nutrients | Stainless steel | £24.99 | Amazon › |
| 08. Maestri House Espresso Scale with Timer Maestri House · Maestri House |
8.4 | 4.4 ★ | 4,008 | 2 kg · 0.1 g · timer | Plastic | £27.28 | Amazon › |
| 09. Letron Dual Platform Scale, 15 kg and 500 g Letron · Letron |
8.6 | 4.8 ★ | 777 | 15 kg + 0.01 g pan | Stainless steel | £29.99 | Amazon › |
| 10. New Horrizon Pocket Scale, 500 g / 0.01 g Lowest price New Horrizon · New Horrizon |
8.4 | 4.3 ★ | 7,525 | 500 g · 0.01 g | Stainless steel | £4.99 | Amazon › |
Almost every scale here reaches 5 kg, so capacity is not what separates them. The step size is: 1 g is fine for flour and hopeless for 2 g of yeast, 0.1 g suits bread and coffee, 0.01 g is what you want for salt and spice. The dual-platform model at rank 9 solves it by fitting two pans.
Tare is what lets you build a whole recipe in one bowl instead of washing up five. Check that it can be pressed repeatedly rather than once, and note that every tare eats into the capacity — a 5 kg scale under a 900 g bowl has 4.1 kg left.
A 500 g pocket scale is the size of a phone and a mixing bowl simply falls off it. On the flat glass and steel platforms here the bowl usually overhangs, which is fine mechanically but hides the display underneath it.
This is the practical failure of cheap scales: the numbers sit directly under the pan and you have to bend down and squint sideways. A backlight helps, a raised or angled full-view display helps more, and a phone app sidesteps the problem entirely.
The scales under £10 here run on coin cells that you will replace at the worst moment; the £27 models charge over USB and hold weeks. If a scale lives in a drawer and is used weekly, an auto-off that triggers too fast is more annoying than the battery type.
Two of the ten pair with an app and a food database to count calories and nutrients. That is a food diary with a weighing platform attached, and you are paying for the software, not for accuracy. If you only bake, the £6 scale weighs flour exactly as well.
For everyday cooking and baking, 1 g is enough and is what the two cheapest scales here offer. For bread and filter coffee, 0.1 g makes hydration and dose repeatable. For yeast, salt, gelatine and spice blends you want 0.01 g, which in this list means either a pocket scale or the dual-platform model.
Because you are buying the app rather than the load cell. The two nutrition scales here connect over Bluetooth and read calories and nutrients out of a food database — the Cosori quotes a 1.9 million item UK database and 19 nutrients, the Letron 23. For weighing 250 g of flour they do nothing a £6 scale does not.
Only if the capacity covers the bowl as well as the contents, because taring does not give the weight back. Most entries here stop at 5 kg, which is comfortable for domestic baking; the dual-platform scale at rank 9 goes to 15 kg, which is the one to look at for large dough batches.
The products are ordered by estimated monthly revenue per ASIN, not by star rating and not by bestseller rank. Only products with at least 200 reviews and an average of 4.3 stars were included. It is why a £6.59 scale selling 13,000 units a month tops a list that also holds a £42.97 one.
The score is not our own hands-on test. It is calculated transparently from public Amazon data: 75% from the average star rating and 25% from the number of reviews, weighted logarithmically. The ranking order itself comes from estimated monthly revenue per ASIN. Prices, ratings and review counts were retrieved from Amazon.co.uk on 22 July 2026 and can change at any time.
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