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Hallie Conrad
September 15, 2025
Best budget-friendly espresso scale
I wanted a no-frills, reliable scale that was budget friendly and this one delivered!Pros:- Small- USB-C- Accurate- Easy to read and navigate- Has both a silicone spouted portafilter holder and flat pad- Has physical buttons- Has a timerI’ve been using it for about a week and it has accurately measured down to 0.1 thus far; I have not noticed any jumping or rounding. It’s to tare in manual mode, and all other settings work as stated. For my purposes, I only really use Settings 1 and 3.Cons:- Doesn’t clear the spouted portafilter on Gaggia E24- Not waterproof- Potentially can trap coffee in the undercarriageDespite lack of clearance above my cup, I find it’s close enough for me—after brewing I just remove the scale first, then the cup. Once I get a bottomless portafilter or a low-profile tray, this will not be an issue. Waterproofing isn’t really important to me, but ease of cleaning is. The top is great! It has the skinniest border around the screen I have yet to get espresso caught in, however, the bottom I could see being an issue. If you look at my picture of the bottom of the scale, there is space where even coarse grounds could get jammed. If we’re being honest, unless you have an insanely messy coffee station, this is also a non-issue.I tried and returned the Bucanim Mini 3 and Timemore Black Mirror Mini, both of which I hated due to lack of physical buttons, having no memory, and being unreliable (too much ghosting). Their minimalist appearance is its greatest weakness because they replaced physical buttons with two “touch” buttons that are finicky. The settings are also difficult to navigate and it has no memory: you have to tap 4 times to set into espresso mode, but if you turn it off or go into standby mode they reset and you have to do it all over again.**In conclusion, this is a worthy scale for a home brewer. Minus Bluetooth capabilities and measuring flow rate, it offers the functions and size of an Acaia Lunar for a fraction of the price. It might not be as durable, but it still looks sleek.TLDR: budget friendly, low profile, accurate. Would easily buy again
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Great little scale!
Update: At first I didn’t know how to tare, but my wife showed me that you have to wait about one second and it does work properly. With that in mind, it is a pretty neat scale with its easy to use functions.It doesn’t work as you would expect from simple scale. You can’t press the tare button without affecting the weight. Will be returning, doesn’t seem to be defective, it’s poor design.
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Jeffry Steven Lenis Jimenez
October 14, 2025
Small but accurate
Small but very accurate. Good battery
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Worth the money!
Easy-to-use. I love the automatic mode! Makes brewing a consistent pot of coffee easy!
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Amazon Customer
December 27, 2025
Nice for coffee, with some quirks
I'm a huge coffee nerd, I home roast my own beans and brew coffee multiple different ways. I have a growing collection of budget kitchen scales trying to find the *perfect* one for my coffee station. Brewista's Smart Coffee Scale III is close, but not it. As a more budget-friendly espresso scale, it's still pretty good (with quirks).My main criticism with the scale is that it registers weight fluctuations when pressing buttons. This is something that my cheaper general purpose kitchen scales have no problem with, and I'd assume it's because there isn't a raised platform for weighing; it's just the entire scale. Additionally, when weighing beans, the weight overshoots with the impact of pouring into the dosing cup before settling back on the actual weight. This makes it a bit tedious to accurately weigh out your coffee doses directly onto the scale. I've ended up using my old scale for weighing my beans while having the Brewista scale ready to weigh my espresso shot. It works for me since I don't have to flip between the different modes on the Brewista during the process, though it's obviously less convenient if you only want to use one scale.I've near exclusively been using this Brewista scale for weighing espresso shots, keeping it set to Mode 3 for autoweighing and auto taring. For this setting, the workflow is to weigh my beans with my old scale, then place the Brewista on my espresso machine's drip tray and turn it on. When I place the plastic tray (have accidentally flooded enough cheap scales to still be cautious, despite this scale's more improved water resistance) and my demitasse on the weighing surface, it automatically tares itself. Then when I flip the brew switch on my machine, it automatically starts tracking the time while weighing so I can aim for my 40g/25sec goal in one fell swoop.Overall, there's a lot that I do like about this scale compared to previous kitchen scales I've tried; this is one that's really meant for coffee/beverage use and has added features with that in mind. I'm hoping this one will hold up much better to spills and espresso splatter than my previous scales, and I love that it's rechargable (with a silicone stopper to protect the USB-C port from moisture!). At the pricepoint, I'm not sure this is something I could justify buying for myself, but I think it would be a lovely gift for the coffee nerd in your life.
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Heng-Shuo Chang
August 15, 2025
Good
Good
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Z Ricarditich
December 07, 2025
Avoid
I had to return it. Attempting to weigh 16 grams of coffee grinds was torture. Weight would freeze at some weight figure after adding grinds, then when grinds were added or subtracted it would jump erratically to a new, unrealistic weight number. Repeating the process resulted in a similar routine. It was simply unusable.Lesson learned: Vine reviews seldom tell you the whole story. From now on, I will ignore them.
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