Boa - Kitchen Scales
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The Boa is a fun take on the traditional kitchen scales. Although it is an electronic device, it doesn’t need batteries or any other external source of electricity. The power it uses is generated when you twist Boa open. After that it accomodates most sizes of bowls or dishes so you can weigh your foods directly in the vessel you’re going to use in your cooking or baking.
| by: Martin Pr??me licence: Unknown / Not defined tags: kitchen fun food rubber colors design |
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I like the simplicity and the fun factor,
and also that it can easily be adjusted to any size of bowl.
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wow. thats interesting.
doesn’t require electricity. easy to fit in the kitchen (unlike mosts scales).
how would you discount the weight of the bowl, if you’ll use different bowls for cooking?
Easy! Just place the bowl on the scales before resetting. This way, you can perform additive weighing as well, like this: place bowl, reset and add 300 g flour, reset and add 100 g butter, reset and add 200 g milk, etc.
it’s the real design!
Nice idea, love it. When can I buy one? :)
This is awesome! Small, aesthetic, simple … I would buy one of these in a heart-beat!
Incredibly clever. It ’s useful and it looks great compared to all the pieces of crap used in most kitchens nowadays.
I doubt that simply untwisting it would provide near enough energy to power the LCD for long enough to read it. The user would probably end up twisting it several times, which would be awkward with the way it’s designed. It is a good idea, but it may end up requiring batteries after all.
Soak it to clean it?
I like this idea. It looks good, is unique and appears to make a task–weighing food–easier for the user. One question to think about, would the scale automatically subtract the empty weight of the bowl (assuming the bowl is weighed before the measured substance is put in)?
How do you calibrate it?
I hate to spot out a major floor in your design, but the way you have configured the load cell would only be accurate if you placed a mass directly on top. Placing a spherical bowl you will have only a component of the load acting on the load cell.
Think this design would work better on pressure, but even then you can’t guarantee accuracy.