Kitchen Weighing Scales - any recommendations?

[bunyanvillas]

Hi, I need some new scales and am wondering which would be better - the flat, electronic ones or the more traditional ones with a pan on top. Any views before I part with the cash?

I got the flat electronic ones as a Christmas present - and they are good. Advantage is that you can use any bowl - and as you reset to zero after you add each ingredient there is less mess.

I like the flat electronic ones. They take up no space. You can use any bowl/plate/whatever. You can even start out with the bowl, zero it, add 100g of something, zero it, add 200g of something else, etc etc. I've had mine for a couple of years, and never had to change batteries etc, either.

The pan style look more fiddly, take up more space, and you have to keep washing the pan.

a vote here for the old fashioned ones with a pan - I love mine.

I have both and use the electronic ones 90% of the time - argos do a really cheap set (around a tenner, most seem to be in the £20-40 range)