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Back to the sheet Kitchen Kitchen scale · E5
Escali Primo
E5 · Level 2 · A quiet chip Dependable doofus

Escali Primo

Escali Primo digital kitchen scale, 5 kg.

$25Buy on Amazon
Amazon US, October 2026. Prices change.

Two buttons, a tare function and a battery that lasts about a year. The bakery favourite for a reason: it weighs, then switches itself off.

Off-grid
Runs on battery, crank or solar, so it survives a power cut.

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Survival checklist

What it survives, next to the smart one it replaces.
1
=SURVIVES(threat)Survives…
ThisEscali Primo
What it replacesSmart oneEtekcity Smart Nutrition Scale
2
Power cut
TRUE
FALSE
3
Wi-Fi goes down
TRUE
TRUE
4
The company switches off its servers
TRUE
#DEPENDS
5
Someone tries to hack it
TRUE
#DEPENDS
6
A firmware update goes wrong
TRUE
FALSE
7
Twenty years from now
#DEPENDS
#DEPENDS
8
=COUNTIF(TRUE)Total
5 of 65/6and one maybe
1 of 61/6and three maybes

The smart one is the Etekcity Smart Nutrition Scale.

Row 5

See it in the sheetIn the sheet
#N/A

We looked. Sorry.

Electric scales without a brain went out with the valve radio.

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One button, one gram at a time, no Bluetooth.

Escali Primo

$25
Off-grid
Escali Primo$25
Buy on Amazon