Homemade Sausage Making

What are some good brands that wont break the bank? İ will be doing 1kg meat portions so it has to be accurate to 0.1grams.

As a fellow newbie also making small batches, I too considered buying a precision scale. Then I realized that 0.1g is on the order of the amount that gets stuck on the scale or stuck on your spoon or the sides of the mixing bowl or otherwise may not make it into your meat mixture--a "pinch" of spice, salt, cure, etc. To put it another way, that kind of accuracy is difficult to impossible in practice to translate from the scale into your meat mixture. For truly small batches like 1kg, I do some combination of using a scale purportedly accurate to 1.0g and measuring in volume (e.g., fractions of a teaspoon, mostly eyeballing it for anything smaller than a quarter teaspoon). Plus or minus a half a gram of a spice, salt or even nitrite cure isn't going to make a noticeable difference in taste or curing result. Generally, I round up to the nearest gram. And for nitrite cure, I'd rather err on the side of using a pinch too much than a pinch too little. Such small amounts will not be harmful to health. All of that said, a precision scale is nevertheless a nice thing to have

I mostly do small quantities 1-3 Kg, so

For measuring small quantities cure, spices, etc., I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F5 ... UTF8&psc=1
I've used it regularly for 4 years, and just now put a 50 gram cal weight on it - read 50.01 grams.

For larger quantities like meat I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XX ... =UTF8&th=1

Less than $15.00 (US) each.

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Sat Jan 29, 2022 18:50

I mostly do small quantities 1-3 Kg, so

For measuring small quantities cure, spices, etc., I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F5 ... UTF8&psc=1
I've used it regularly for 4 years, and just now put a 50 gram cal weight on it - read 50.01 grams.

For larger quantities like meat I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XX ... =UTF8&th=1

Less than $15.00 (US) each.

Well İ was hoping to find something cheaper than this:
https://awscales.com/milligram-scales/

İm not sure what the difference is between the 50 dollar and 200usd model is... but these are accurate to the .001g...

I have two different scales. For meat I use an inexpensive commercial scale, 1g to 20kg and for ingredients I use an inexpensive jeweller scale to .01. I bought two of them several years ago, just to have a backup, but have not had any problems. I also got a set of calibration weights and check them occasionally. For weighing spices and other ingredients you really don't need a scale capable of .001.