This seems to be an excellent kitchen scale for my purposes. Accurate enough to weigh coffee for a shot of espresso, but has enough capacity to not be overwhelmed by baking bread or brewing beer. It's effectively going to take the place of a small scale I liked and a larger scale that I didn't.
I knocked a star off my review over fairly minor things... read it as more like 4.5 stars. First, 9 volt batteries: can we please let these things vanish into history next to video tape and incandescent bulbs? I don't know what voltage this thing runs on internally, but I suspect that it regulates the 9v down and this could operate on a couple of rechargeable lithium cells. Second, basically the same complaint about styrofoam packaging. Please switch to something renewable and actually recyclable.