Etekcity Etekcity Nutrition Smart Food Kitchen Sc

This is the second Etekcity Nutrition Smart Scale I have owned. Both have eventually failed with small increments and both in the same way. I’m an experienced calorie counter and can accurately sprinkle an ounce of cheese or dish up exactly 32 grams of peanut butter like party tricks. Still I like to stay accountable and relying on “eyeballing” is not ideal when you only have a certain amount of calories to play with. Mistakes add up and can throw you off when you’re doing everything right. Both scales did fine for several months and then just went out of whack. Measuring a scoop of protein powder I accidentally dumped the whole scoop in rather than sprinkle. Scale registered a comically low reading like 10 grams when I know it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 grams. I’d wait for it to register but it never did and what’s worse is that you can go on to “sprinkle” and it doesn’t start to add up until 5-10 grams in so someone who may not know that doesn’t look right can easily be doubling or tripling their intake. With high calorie, low volume foods this quickly becomes a problem. With both scales after that first time they just fail to register small amounts anymore. I’ve searched high and low for a way to calibrate but there doesn’t seem to be one so I’m moving on to different scales. I would not recommend for calorie counting (or baking) if you are wanting to add things like butter, oil, peanut butter, etc. to your diet. It works great at first but eventually can’t be trusted to be accurate.