I know that most American cooks use volume measurements in their cooking, but a set of dual-unit (lbs and kg) kitchen scales allow more precision and more repeatability in your cooking.

Just now, on Amazon.com, there are sets of digital scales from $7 to well over $200. Most of these scales are well rated by customers.

It’s a small investment in your cooking, and will help you cook recipes from other countries that don’t use volumetric measures. What do you have to lose? Well, apart from the $7 for the scales, plus the $20 for that thing, and oh there’s a new book by my favourite author…. 🙂