I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    If it weren’t obscenely expensive to do so, it would make sense for all scales to be calibrated to a NIST traceable standard, with periodic recalibrations at preset intervals.

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      9 months ago

      Most kitchen scales could be easily calibrated with a measuring cup and water if they really wanted to do this. Just have a few included cups for 25,50,100ml of water and then fill them on the scale and tell it what the volume is.

      That will easily get you within a gram of error for most common food weights.