A year in and still on the original charge cycle
Equipment review
Digital scales
BOMATA · 0.1g precision · 5kg · USB-C charging
By Steven · Updated September 2026
They read down to 0.1g, so one set of scales covers everything.
Buy scales that read to 0.1g and start weighing everything, water included. That one habit is what makes a recipe repeatable.
BakeClass Snapshot
- Cost
- Budget
- Longevity
- Buy once
- Learning curve
- Immediate
- Best for
- Everyone. The first thing to buy
There is no advanced version of weighing things. Scales that work now will work in ten years.
Do I actually need one?
Yes.Yes, and this is one purchase there is no argument about. Baking runs on ratios, and ratios only work if the numbers are real, accurate and consistent. Cups and spoons are fine for herbs and spices but where exact measurements are needed, volume is no good. The worst offender is water: almost everyone measures it in a jug because the jug has millilitres printed on the side. Try this once. Fill a jug to the markings that say 300ml, then put it on the scales. It will almost certainly not weigh 300g. That gap is why your dough is wetter or stiffer than the recipe intended, and why you cannot work out what went wrong.
What it does, and why this one
Weighs your ingredients so a recipe's ratios survive contact with your kitchen. Flour, water, salt and starter all go on by weight, and the tare button lets you zero the display between each one so everything can go into the same bowl without any mental arithmetic.
They also weigh in percentages, which is worth explaining because it is aimed directly at bread baking. Bakers work in ratios rather than fixed weights - the flour is 100% and everything else is expressed against it - and this scale will do that arithmetic for you rather than making you do it on paper. If you are scaling a recipe up or down, or working from a formula written in baker's percentages rather than grams, that is a real advantage over a generic set of scales. They read down to 0.1g, which is the detail that makes a second set of scales unnecessary. That is fine enough for salt and for the small quantities of starter a sourdough recipe asks for, so one set of scales covers everything. They also charge over USB-C, which sounds trivial but isn't: plenty of rechargeable kitchen gadgets ship with a proprietary cable, and the day you lose that cable the device is finished. USB-C means any phone cable in the house will charge it. The 5kg capacity is more than enough to sit a full bowl of dough on the platform, and they have survived being splashed repeatedly, which matters because if you are weighing water properly the scales are going to get wet.
Pros and cons
What works
- Reads to 0.1g, so no second set of scales for salt or starter
- Percentage mode for anyone working in baker's percentages
- USB-C charging, so any phone cable in the house will do
- A year in and still on the original charge cycle
- Shrugs off water and wipes clean
- Ships with a 100g calibration weight
- Falls back to AAA batteries if the charge runs out mid-bake
What does not
- The tare button sometimes needs a second press before it re-zeroes
- Auto-offs when left idle, so stepping away mid-recipe means a blank display
What I got wrong
Jewellers scales first
I assumed weighing yeast and other small quantities would need finer resolution than a normal kitchen scale could manage. They now live in a cupboard, and come out perhaps twice a year for something unusually fiddly.
My experience
I bought these in May 2025 and they are still on the same charge cycle, which is the opposite of my experience with battery-powered scales. They get wet regularly, and they have never missed a beat - a quick wipe and they are as good as new. They have gone up a few pounds since I bought mine and I would still buy them at the higher price. In the interests of honesty, I have never once used the percentage function. The recipes I bake are like for like, the exact quantity the recipe calls for, so I have never needed to scale anything. If you do work that way it is a genuine bonus, but I am not going to claim credit for using a feature I do not.
Steven, BakeClass
Alternatives
Any scales that read to 0.1g with a working tare button will do the job. If you are choosing between models, pick the one that charges with a cable you already own. What you do not need is a second set of jewellers scales for the small quantities - I bought those first and they were a waste of money.
Will you outgrow it?
No. There is no advanced version of weighing things. Scales that work now will work in ten years, and the only reason to replace these would be losing them.