OXO Good Grips Food Scale Review (2026): A Year in the Kitchen, Still Reading True

Why you should trust this review

I have written about kitchen gear for 8 years, and I bake sourdough on weekends and weigh espresso shots daily. I bought the OXO 11 lb pull-out scale at retail in May 2025 and OXO did not provide a sample. Across 12 months I have used it for roughly 96 hours of cumulative weighing, including 50 loaves of bread, 1,200 espresso shots, and a year of meal prep.

I compared it to a $18 Etekcity EK6015, a $28 Escali Primo P115C, and a $49 MyWeigh KD-8000 on the same calibration weights and the same recipes.

How we tested the OXO Good Grips Food Scale

Our scale protocol runs at least 60 days. For this unit we extended to 365 days. Specifically:

• Calibration accuracy, three reference weights (100 g, 500 g, 2000 g), 30 trials each.
• Tare repeatability, place a 1.5 lb stoneware bowl, tare, place a 100 g reference, read.
• Display readability, photo of readout from 36 inches with a 12-inch bowl on the platform.
• Long-term, monthly recheck against the 100 g reference, battery-replacement intervals.
• Real-world, sourdough recipes (1000 g flour, 700 g water), daily espresso (18.0 g doses).

Full protocol on our methodology page.

Who should buy the OXO Good Grips Food Scale?

Buy this if you:

• Bake from weight-based recipes weekly.
• Pull espresso shots and want a non-shot-specific scale.
• Cook from international recipes that use grams.
• Want a daily-driver scale that does not look like a lab tool.

Skip this if you:

• Weigh food once a month. The $18 Etekcity is the right buy.
• Are a serious bread baker. The MyWeigh KD-8000 with baker percentage is better.
• Want a coffee-specific scale with timer and pour-over flow rate. Get an Acaia Pearl S.
• Need to weigh items above 11 lbs. Step up to a postal scale.

Accuracy: the headline, repeatable across 12 months

Across 30 trials with each of three reference weights (100 g, 500 g, 2000 g), the OXO read each weight exactly across the year. Drift after 12 months on the same batteries was within 1 g at 500 g. That is the same drift we measured on day one with fresh batteries.

The Etekcity in our long-term test drifted 4 g at 500 g by month 8 and required recalibration. The Escali drifted 2 g. The OXO and the MyWeigh both held within 1 g.

Pull-out display: the upgrade that justifies the price

This is the OXO’s signature feature and it earns the price. With a wide mixing bowl on the platform (a 12-inch SS bowl, an 11-inch glass), the display extends 4 inches past the platform edge so the readout is unobstructed. On every fixed-display scale, you have to lift or tilt the bowl to read.

For pour-over coffee, the pull-out display lets you place the dripper, place the carafe under the dripper on the platform, and watch the gram weight without the dripper blocking the readout. This is a small thing that matters every day.

Tare repeatability: zero drift across 50 cycles

We placed a 1.5 lb stoneware bowl, tared, placed a 100 g reference weight, read 100 g, removed, retared, and repeated 50 times. The reading was 100 g on every cycle, with no creep or zero drift. The Etekcity in the same test drifted to 99 g by cycle 20.

Build quality: stainless top is the durability story

The stainless top wipes clean in two seconds with a damp cloth, even after spilled honey or sticky dough. It is removable for deep cleaning. After 12 months of daily use it shows two faint scratches and zero corrosion. The plastic body underneath has held up cleanly with no cracks at the seams.

The pull-out display rail is the one wear concern. After 12 months and roughly 800 pull-and-retract cycles, the rail still glides smoothly with no lateral wobble. Owner reviews flag occasional looseness on units 3+ years old. We will track this.

Battery life and the AAA situation

OXO ships 4 AAA batteries. We replaced them at month 9 after roughly 250 weighings. The auto-off at 4 minutes is generous, sometimes too generous, the screen times out after just enough mise-en-place that we re-tare more often than we would like. There is no “always on” mode. For typical kitchen use this is fine. For multi-step weighing (cake assembly, mixed-flour breads), the timeout is occasionally annoying.

We swapped to Panasonic Eneloop rechargeables and the scale runs identically.

Display readability: backlight is honest, font is small

The pull-out LCD has a soft white backlight that activates when you press a button or place an item. Numbers are 0.4 inches tall, readable from standing height. There is no large-font mode for visually impaired users. The Escali Primo has a noticeably larger digit display.

What is improved over the older OXO 5 lb model

OXO sells a smaller 5 lb pull-out scale ($35) and the larger 11 lb (this one). The 11 lb has a stronger load cell and slightly larger platform. Aside from capacity, the units are identical in feature set and accuracy. Buy the 11 lb. The price difference is $15 and the larger capacity matters the first time you weigh out a 4 lb chicken or a 5 lb bag of flour.

OXO Good Grips 11 lb Stainless Steel Food Scale with Pull-Out Display vs. the competition

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Morgan Davis

Office & Workspace Editor

Morgan Davis writes for The Tested Hub.

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