OXO Good Grips 5 lb Food Scale has the best record: 12 of 12 shoppers who weighed in said it weighed accurately, but that is a small group. Taylor Glass Platform Digital Food Scale follows at 19 of 23 from a larger group. The other two Taylor scales fell short, and Taylor Black Glass Top Food Scale has the weakest record here at 11 of 30.
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Share of shoppers who stated an outcome for accuracy. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Drift is the problem with the weaker Taylor scales: 28% of reviews for Taylor Black Glass Top Food Scale and 24% for Taylor Digital Food Scale with Removable Tray say the readings drift or change. This page rests on 4 scales, three of them from Taylor, so it is a short list.
Praise and complaints are the points shoppers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
OXO
Every shopper who weighed in said it was accurate, but there are just 12 of them. 44% call it easy to use and 22% like the tare button. 11% mention battery trouble.
Taylor
31% of reviews call it easy to use and 29% praise the tare button. 11% say the readings were off, and a few say it shuts off too fast (6%).
Taylor
More shoppers weighed in on this scale than on the others (30), and 19 of them said the readings were off. 28% say the readings drift and 10% say it stopped working.
Taylor
Just 12 shoppers weighed in, and they are split: 5 of 12 said it was accurate, while 35% of reviews say the readings were off.
No repeated praise yet.
No repeated complaints yet.
The 4 products ranked here carry 521 reviews at Target. We read the newest reviews of each product (up to a thousand per listing), kept the ones that talk about accuracy, and counted up to 40 per product, posted between Feb 2009 and Sep 2026.
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OXO Good Grips 5 lb Food Scale has the best record (12 of 12), but it rests on a small group. Taylor Glass Platform Digital Food Scale is next at 19 of 23, with more shoppers weighing in.
Weigh something with a known weight, like an unopened package with the weight printed on it, and see if the scale matches. Weigh it a few times in a row: readings that keep changing are the drift shoppers complain about here. Set the scale on a flat, hard counter and swap in fresh batteries first.
It depends on the model. Taylor Black Glass Top Food Scale has the weakest record here at 11 of 30, and 28% of its reviews say the readings drift. Taylor Glass Platform Digital Food Scale, a different Taylor model, did much better at 19 of 23.
Shoppers say it helps: 29% of reviews for Taylor Glass Platform Digital Food Scale and 22% for OXO Good Grips 5 lb Food Scale praise it. Tare zeroes out the bowl so the scale counts just what you add.
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