01The numbers a kitchen runs on

Escali: cook to the number, not to the guess

A hamburger that looks fully cooked is, one time in four, not cooked through. The federal food-safety service is blunt about it: colour proves nothing, and the only way to know is to measure. That single fact is the reason most of this catalog exists, and Escali has been building the instruments that do the measuring since 1999.

Every Escali card prints the capacity, the resolution or the probe length beside the price, so you can match the instrument to your counter before you decide rather than after the parcel arrives.

See what people buy most

A loaf and a bowl of flour being weighed on a chrome Escali Primo scale on a marble counter

Primo Digital Food Scale, Chrome8.5x6 in platform · $25.00

85pieces in the catalogEvery one of them priced today

19,251ratings behind themCounted once per product family

5shelvesKitchen scales, thermometers, timers, body scales, the pro bench

27 yrsmeasuring for kitchensEscali has been on the market since 1999

02Start with the question

Five Escali shelves, each answering a different number

How much does it weigh, how hot is it, how long has it been, what do you weigh, and can the reading be proven. Each of those is its own shelf here, and the instrument you need follows from the question you are actually asking.

Kitchen & food scales31 Kitchen thermometers35 Kitchen timers4 Bathroom, body & travel scales9 Professional & industrial scales6

Five shelves, one discipline, and every instrument on all of them belongs to the Escali selection.

03What sells fastest

The Escali pieces our customers reach for first

Ranked on the size of the rating pool behind each product family, not on what we would like to move. If a scale has held its zero on tens of thousands of counters, that is worth more than any adjective we could put next to it.

Analog dial thermometers

AH1 Oven-Safe Meat Thermometer, Silver

2.5 in dial
Stainless steel
Colour: Silver

4.3 · 5,874 ratings

$9.95

Primo food scales

Primo Digital Food Scale, Black

8.5x6 in platform
Colour: Black

4.7 · 2,553 ratings

$24.25

Arti glass scales

Arti Glass Food Scale, 15 lb, Blue Mirage

weighs to 15 lb
9x6.5 in platform
Glass

4.3 · 1,564 ratings

$34.95

Grill & oven thermometers

AHG2 Extra Large Grill Surface Thermometer

reads 100 to 600F
Stainless steel
Colour: Silver

4.2 · 1,409 ratings

$12.95

04How the brand got here

One kitchen scale, then a catalog out of the same question

Escali started in 1999 with a kitchen scale and a plain observation: American recipes ran on cups and glances while the rest of the cooking world ran on grams and degrees.

The first Escali scales did the unfashionable thing: they put a clear number where a guess used to be. A cup of flour weighs whatever the scoop and the settling decide that day; two hundred and fifty grams weighs two hundred and fifty grams. That is still the order everything here is designed in. The display you read is the face of the instrument; the load cell under the platform is what the instrument actually is.

The catalog widened one question at a time. Weight came first: the Primo, still on this front page, then glass platforms, a bowl scale, a mechanical dial for people who want no battery in the room. Temperature followed, because doneness is the same problem as weight wearing an apron: a number pretending to be a look. Timers came after that, and the bathroom scales apply the same load-cell discipline to a different floor. The pro bench -- lab balances reading to a hundredth of a gram, platforms rated to 330 pounds -- is the same idea with the tolerances tightened.

What that means in practice is unglamorous. A platform has to return to zero after ten thousand tare presses. A probe has to read a roast in seconds without minding the oven around it. A dial has to be legible across a kitchen through steam. None of those are breakthroughs; they are the parts of the job everybody skips, and they are why an instrument this simple earns a second decade on the same counter.

Today the range runs from a nine-dollar dial thermometer to a shipping platform, and one test stands behind all of it: put the thing you think you know on the instrument, and see whether the number agrees.

The honest limit of an instrument

A thermometer only reports; the safe targets come from the federal food-safety agencies, and the body-composition figures on a smart scale are estimates, not diagnoses. Where a number on this site leans on an outside authority, that authority is named, with the date we read it, on our updates page.

The corner of an Escali lab balance with its spirit level

05The weight of the recipe

Six Escali scales that leave the drawer first

Grams settle what cups argue about, and every card here prints the capacity and the resolution, because those two figures decide which scale belongs on your counter.

Primo food scales

Primo Digital Food Scale, Chrome

8.5x6 in platform
Colour: Chrome

4.7 · 2,553 ratings

$25.00

Arti glass scales

Arti Glass Food Scale, 15 lb, Shiny Silver

weighs to 15 lb
9x6.5 in platform
Glass

4.3 · 1,564 ratings

$29.95

Bowl & volume scales

Mercado DS115B Mechanical Dial Scale, 11 lb, Stainless

weighs to 11 lb
Stainless steel
Colour: Stainless

4.4 · 416 ratings

$34.95

Compact kitchen scales

F115 Compact Kitchen Scale, 11 lb, Stainless

weighs to 11 lb
Stainless steel
Colour: Stainless

4.3 · 403 ratings

$22.99

Bowl & volume scales

Pana V136 Volume Measuring Scale, 13 lb

weighs to 13 lb
Colour: Grey

4.3 · 293 ratings

$64.66

Precision & herb scales

Alimento 136DK Kitchen Scale, White

Stainless steel
Colour: White

4.2 · 214 ratings

$59.95

All 31 kitchen and food scales

06On the counter

Where Escali instruments spend their lives

A dusting of flour, a pot of oil at 350, a fridge shelf at 38 degrees. These are Escali pieces as they are sold, photographed at the jobs they were built for.

A red Telero weighing spices into a glass dish

The Arti glass platform in blue mirage, three quarters of an inch tall

The ComfortStep bathroom scale on a wooden floor

The Mercado mechanical dial: a needle, a bowl and no battery

The AHF2 glass tube thermometer, cut for a fridge shelf

The sealed glass face of an Arti in classic green

The DHRW1 wireless probe station with its backlit display

07How each one measures

Five measuring mechanisms in the Escali range, and what each is for

Almost every disappointing kitchen instrument is a good mechanism asked the wrong question. A dial thermometer left in a steak on the grill is doing its job; the same dial asked for a two-second espresso-scale reading is the wrong tool twice over. The range uses five mechanisms, and the table below is the shortest honest guide to which belongs where.

Load-cell platforms

The digital scales, kitchen and bathroom both. A sensor under the platform turns weight into a figure, tares to zero around any bowl, and switches grams to ounces on a press. Capacity and resolution are the two figures that matter, and both are on every card.

Mechanical dial scales

A spring and a needle, no battery anywhere. The Mercado reads to its 11-pound ceiling the day the batteries in everything else are dead. It trades fine resolution for the ability to never be off.

Dial thermometers

A stainless probe that moves a needle, oven-safe and dishwasher-tolerant. Slower than digital and honest about it: this is the thermometer that stays IN the roast with the door shut, not the one you flick in and out.

Digital probes

Thermistor and thermocouple probes with a screen, reading in seconds. The instant-read half of the shelf: into the thickest part, past the bone, read, out. The Stelo folds and recharges; the wireless set reports from 200 feet away.

Infrared

Reads a surface from a distance without touching it: a griddle, a pizza stone, a pan of oil. It sees only the surface, which is exactly why the two-in-one models carry a probe as well, for the inside of the food.

Mechanism against job
Mechanism	Where it belongs	Reads in	Where it fails
Load-cell platform	Baking, portions, meal prep, body weight	Under two seconds	Above its rated capacity: the ceiling is on the card
Mechanical dial	Market stalls, camp kitchens, battery-free households	At a glance	Half-gram work: the needle is honest but coarse
Dial thermometer	Inside a roast, an oven, a fridge shelf	One to two minutes	Quick checks: it is built to stay put, not to dart
Digital probe	Instant reads, frying, candy stages, grill checks	Two to four seconds	Left inside a closed oven, unless the probe is rated for it
Infrared	Griddles, stones, pans, surfaces you cannot touch	Instantly	The inside of anything: it only ever sees the surface

Nothing in the Escali way is asked to answer two questions at once, which is why the mechanism sits on the card next to the price.

08Heat, answered in seconds

Six Escali thermometers between the fridge and the grill

The dials stay with the food and the probes visit it. Both halves of the shelf are here, with the probe length and the degree range printed where you can read them.

Analog dial thermometers

AH1 Oven-Safe Meat Thermometer, 2-pack

2.5 in dial
2 in the pack · $6.47 each
Stainless steel

4.3 · 5,874 ratings

$12.95

Wireless, infrared & sets

AHS1-4 Mini Steak Thermometer Set

Colour: Silver

4.2 · 1,409 ratings

$21.95

Candy & deep-fry thermometers

AHC3 Classic Glass Candy Thermometer

Glass
Colour: Clear

4.4 · 869 ratings

$9.95

Digital probe thermometers

DH1 Gourmet Meat Thermometer, Black

Colour: Black

4.3 · 628 ratings

$21.95

Fridge & freezer thermometers

AHF2 Glass Fridge and Freezer Thermometer

Glass

4.4 · 586 ratings

$13.99

Digital probe thermometers

DHP4 Easy Read Meat Thermometer, Blue

Stainless steel
Colour: Blue

4.2 · 357 ratings

$21.95

All 35 thermometers

09Against the alternatives

Five ways home cooks measure, and where an instrument fits

Every kitchen already measures somehow. Here are the five common answers side by side, including the ones that cost nothing, and an honest note on where each one gives out.

The five common answers, compared
The method	What it does well	What it costs you	Honest verdict
Cups and spoons	Free, fast, in every drawer already	A cup of flour changes weight with the scoop and the settling; recipes drift batch to batch	Fine for soup, expensive for bread
Cooking by the clock	No equipment at all; works when thickness never varies	Ovens run hot or cold and a thick chop ignores the recipe writer’s clock	A schedule, not a measurement
Judging by colour	Feels like experience; sometimes is	The federal food-safety service reports one in four hamburgers that look done are not	The look proves nothing; the number does
The phone	A timer is always in your pocket	Wet flour hands on a touchscreen, and the recipe leaves the screen every time it rings	Fine until you cook two things at once
A dedicated instrument	One number, straight, repeatable; tares, alarms and events built for a stove	It is a purchase, and it wants a drawer of its own	What the recipe meant all along

The last row is where the Escali catalog lives, and the first two are worth understanding before you spend anything at all.

10Minutes, body weight and the pro bench

Six more Escali instruments from the rest of the house

The same discipline runs through the whole Escali catalog: a four-event timer on the fridge door, a 400-pound platform on the bathroom tile, a lab balance reading to a hundredth of a gram.

High capacity & wide platform

Extra Wide Bathroom Scale, 400 lb

weighs to 400 lb

4 · 766 ratings

$26.39

Glass bathroom scales

E184 Clear Glass Bathroom Scale, 400 lb

weighs to 400 lb
11.8x11.8 in platform
Glass

4.3 · 539 ratings

$29.99

High capacity & wide platform

High Capacity Bathroom Scale, 562 lb

weighs to 562 lb

4.5 · 317 ratings

$44.50

Kitchen timers

Extra Loud Display Kitchen Timer, Black

Colour: Black

3.9 · 187 ratings

$15.98

Lab balances

L600 High Precision Lab Balance, 600 g

0.01 g resolution
Colour: Black

3.8 · 113 ratings

$66.99

Travel & luggage scales

Velo Slimline Portable Travel Luggage Scale, 110 lb, Black

weighs to 110 lb
Colour: Black

4.5 · 101 ratings

$24.95

All 4 timers All 9 body scales All 6 on the pro bench

11By the name people type

The Escali pages people go looking for

Three pages, each one a single line of the catalog laid out by colour and price. If you already know the thing you want from Escali, start here rather than at a shelf.

Escali Primo Digital Food Scales

The scale the catalog grew out of: one load cell, one button, eight colours, and a stainless tray sold separately for the people who weigh meat on it. If you own one Escali, it is probably this one.

All 9, by colour and price →

Escali Arti Glass Kitchen Scales

A sealed glass sheet over a load cell: flour wipes off the top, and nothing works its way into a seam. Nine platforms from the 15-pound Arti in seven finishes to the 22-pound ArtiXL.

All 9, by colour and price →

Escali Digital Meat Thermometers

Fourteen digital probes between nine dollars and seventy: gourmet probes in three colours, a waterproof four-second read, folding compacts, long stems for frying, and a rechargeable thermocouple. The number goes in past the bone and comes back in seconds.

All 14, by colour and price →

12Before you pick one

Six figures that decide which Escali you need

Almost every instrument that disappoints was the wrong specification, not the wrong brand. Six checks settle all of it, and every figure you need is printed on the cards here.

Weigh your heaviest bowl first

Capacity has to carry the container plus the food. Put your usual mixing bowl or dutch oven on any bathroom scale: if the bowl alone passes five pounds, the 11-pound platforms are tighter than they look and the 22-pound ArtiXL stops being a luxury.

Decide between grams and tenths

Bread, dinners and portions live happily at one-gram increments, and every kitchen platform here reads them. Pigments, precious metals and anything sold by the carat want the lab balances on the pro bench, where the increments drop to a tenth and a hundredth of a gram. The card tells you which you are looking at.

Match the probe to the pot

A candy thermometer clipped to a deep stockpot wants the 12-inch probe; a saucepan is fine at 5. For a roast, the probe has to reach the thickest part without the display touching the oven wall. The probe length is on every thermometer card.

Count what cooks at once

One pot, any timer. A holiday stove wants the four-event model: four counts, four alarms, one magnet. Count the burners you actually use on a busy day and buy that many events.

Read the ceiling on a body scale

Every platform here carries at least 400 pounds; one carries 562. A scale that tops out below the person weighing reads nothing at all, so check the ceiling first and the finish second.

For the bench, check the check

If a reading feeds a recipe you sell, a postage bill or a lab notebook, you need the resolution figure and a way to verify it: a lab balance reading to 0.01 gram, and the calibration weight that proves it is still telling the truth.

13Standards, and what they cover

What a number is worth, on this site and off it

A measurement is only as good as the authority behind the target, and none of the targets on this site are ours. Here is who stands behind what, Escali included.

The safe temperatures are federal, not ours

The targets every cooking page here prints -- 165F for all poultry, 160F for ground meats, 145F with a three-minute rest for whole cuts, 145F for fish -- come from the federal safe minimum internal temperature chart. A thermometer answers the question; the chart decides what a passing answer is.

US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, read August 30, 2026

Colour is not an indicator, and that is not our opinion

The federal food-safety service runs a national campaign on exactly this: appearance and colour are not reliable indicators of doneness, even a hamburger that looks fully cooked is one time in four not, and the probe goes into the thickest part, away from bone, fat and gristle.

US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, read August 30, 2026

The cold end has numbers too

The refrigerator belongs at or below 40F and the freezer at 0F, and since few refrigerator controls show an actual temperature, the federal advice is a freestanding appliance thermometer in each. That advice is the entire reason the fridge and freezer line on our thermometer shelf exists.

US Food and Drug Administration, read August 30, 2026

What is printed on our cards

Capacity, resolution, probe length, degree range and pack count, read out of our own product data. Where a card carries a certification, it is there because the certification is in the product’s own name, and you can hold every one of these figures against the box that arrives.

14In their words

What people say once an Escali has been on the counter a while

Real reviews of these instruments from people who have lived with one. The useful ones are rarely enthusiastic; they are the ones that tell you what the scale still does in year six.

★★★★★

Five years of daily use

I purchased this Escali digital food scale in 2015 and after 5 years of almost daily use, the scale would no longer display the weight in ounces, only Kg would display. I contacted the manufacturer directly and explained the problem. They immediately told me they would be sending me a new replacement scale. I received the new replacement in less than a week and no cost to me. The scale is working excellent as of Dec. 2025 and I am very pleased with the scale and the customer service of Escali.

Lin in Florida · December 20, 2025

on Escali Primo Digital Food Scale, Black

★★★★☆

Twenty years of bread

When I first started baking all my own bread 20 years ago this was the first scale I got, based on recommendations from books and 20 years later it’s still highly rated and, if I’m remembering correctly, it costs about what I paid for it 20 years ago. I just bought another one of these scales after using other scales for the last 15 years or so because I needed a small scale to slide into the cabinet near my stove for weighing out ingredients for meals my husband and I make for the two of us.

HRC · July 31, 2026

on Escali Primo Digital Food Scale, Warm Red

★★★★★

The second reading is the right one

It also has more reliable weight readings compared to the one I had before that would give you 3 different weights if you stepped on it 3 times. This one does require you to step on twice. The first reading will always be about 5 pounds high. Then the 2nd is right and if you step on more times, it is always the 2nd weight. Unfortunately, after 4 months, when I stepped on it the first time one morning, the weight was 300+ pounds, then ERR, then random numbers. I checked the batteries (still fully charged), took them out and put them back in. Then, just random results, never an accurate weight.

DOV HOLLAND · January 8, 2023

on Escali Extra Wide Bathroom Scale, 400 lb

★★★★★

Checked against lab weights

First thing I did upon unboxing is check the accuracy against a set of perfectly calibrated reference weights that I have from a lab at work. The Escali Arti is dead-on accurate... to the gram... from 50gm all the way up to 5,000 grams. Even moving the weights well off-center didn’t upset the Arti. Tares perfectly.

RJP · May 29, 2020

on Escali Arti Glass Food Scale, 15 lb, Shiny Silver

★★★★★

Stored in a drawer

Absolutely love this scale! Beautiful. Easy to put away in a drawer. Nice how it can stay closed for small things or open up for wider bowls. Very easy to use. Tare function works beautifully, by the way (read in one review it didn’t have a tare, but it does).

Cindy · February 13, 2026

on Escali F115 Compact Kitchen Scale, 11 lb, Stainless

★★★★★

A busy line kitchen

I use this every day. I work in a busy kitchen where it is necessary to temp constantly. Though it is just a bit long and sticks up worn in my chef coat sleeve, the utility of the length is great. It will reach to the back of the oven, bottom of the pot or probe the large protein cuts with ease.

Toucan Takes · February 7, 2023

on Escali DH1 Gourmet Meat Thermometer, Black

★★★★★

Caramel and deep-frying

I love the hands-free stainless steel pot clip because it stays steady on the side of my heavy Dutch oven, and the heat-resistant wooden knob means I can adjust it without burning myself. Having the reference temperature zones printed right on the back of the column and the protective sheath saves me from looking up candy stages every five minutes.

Tammy Casselberry-Mosson · June 29, 2026

on Escali AHC3 Classic Glass Candy Thermometer

★★★★★

A camping cooler

This clipped nicely onto a center divider in the cooler (and could be unclipped and buried below the icepacks near anything I wanted to monitor more closely) and gave me the feedback that I was looking for. Before taking it out on an actual camping trip I tried a few tests at home where I compared the readings of other thermometers including an IR model, and this one seemed to track decently with the rest.

BrettD · October 12, 2022

on Escali AHF2 Glass Fridge and Freezer Thermometer

★★★★★

A mechanical holdout

It’s accuracy has been checked and ... close enough for kitchen work! It’s beautiful and easy to clean up. It has a slightly higher capacity then many so pulls more weight around the kitchen (I know, ... that’s bad. Suck it up buttercup!) Recommended Strongly for those wanting a mechanical scale.

Jack Marshfield · June 16, 2020

on Escali Mercado DS115B Mechanical Dial Scale, 11 lb, Stainless

15About the brand

Escali: one idea, carried across five shelves

Everything here replaces a guess with a reading: how much, how hot, how long, and the interesting part of each instrument is the sensor you never see.

Founded in 1999, 27 years of putting numbers where guesses used to be, in 85 instruments across five shelves. The kitchen scale came first and did not stay the whole of it: the same load-cell discipline now stands on the bathroom tile and tightens to a hundredth of a gram on the lab bench.

Read how the catalog got this wide

The stainless face of the Escali M-Series bench scale

16Before you order

Escali: the questions we are asked most

Accuracy, capacity, which thermometer suits which pot, and where an Escali order is actually placed.

Where can you buy Escali scales and thermometers?

Every card on this site carries a buying button, and every page has one at the bottom. The button opens the current price at our retail partner in a new tab; payment, delivery and returns happen there rather than on this site.

If you know what you want, the button in the header opens the whole range at once. If you do not, the five shelves above narrow it down by the question you are asking: weight, heat, minutes, body weight, or the pro bench.

How accurate is an Escali kitchen scale for your baking?

The figure to look for on each card is the resolution: the everyday platforms read to a whole gram, and the precision platforms to a tenth. A whole gram is tight enough for bread and dinners; a tenth is for yeast, salt and espresso, where the whole recipe can fit inside two grams. What keeps either figure honest at home is habit: a hard level surface, and tare pressed before the first ingredient.

Which Escali thermometer do you need for meat?

A digital probe for checking, a dial for staying put. If you flick a thermometer in and out of a chop, you want the instant-read shelf, where a probe answers in seconds. If you leave one in a roast with the oven shut, that is what the oven-safe dials are for, and asking one kind to do the other job is where most thermometer disappointment comes from.

Do Escali scales switch between grams and ounces for you?

Every digital platform here reads both, on a button press, and the tare works the same in either unit. The one instrument that will not switch is the mechanical dial, which reads what its face was printed to read and never needs a battery for it.

What batteries does an Escali scale take, and how long do they run?

Most platforms run on ordinary replaceable cells, the bathroom scales ship with theirs included, and the Stelo thermometer recharges instead. The honest battery advice for any kitchen instrument: the day the display dims, change the cell before you trust another reading, because a dying battery makes a scale drift before it makes it die.

When should you replace your Escali scale?

Test it rather than guess: put something of known weight on the platform, a sealed bag of sugar or a calibration weight, and see whether the figure agrees. An instrument that reads a known weight correctly is fine at any age; one that drifts after a battery change and a level surface has earned its retirement.

17Worth reading first

The numbers behind the kitchen, written out properly

Why a roast is measured and not admired, what a gram scale changes about bread, and what the cold side of the kitchen is supposed to read. The questions we get asked more than any others, answered with the arithmetic shown.

10 min read

Cooked is a number, not a colour

A hamburger that looks done is, one time in four, not. The federal chart is short, the probe placement rule is one sentence, and between them a roast stops being a gamble.

Read it →

10 min read

The cup is a guess: baking by grams

Two cooks following the same cup recipe are baking two different formulas, and neither of them knows it. A scale, one bowl and a tare button settle the argument for good.

Read it →

9 min read

The cold half of the kitchen has numbers too

A fridge dial set to 4 is not a temperature. The federal figures are 40 and 0, few refrigerators show either, and a shelf thermometer is the whole fix.

Read it →

One button, the whole Escali range

Every capacity, probe length and colour in the Escali catalog sits behind this button, with the current price beside it. Match the figure to your counter, and it ships from our retail partner.