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Kitchen scales

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, kitchen scales means: A device used to measure the weight of ingredients in cooking and baking.

In Turkish: mutfak terazisi

How it is used

Scales is common in British English; kitchen scale is common in American English.

Example sentences

  1. The kitchen scales showed two hundred grams of flour.

    The reading gives the ingredient's weight for the recipe.

  2. We replaced the kitchen scales used in the pastry section.

    The plural-looking name can refer to a single weighing device.

Common collocations

  • digital kitchen scales
  • weigh on kitchen scales
  • recipeA set of instructions for making a dish, with a list of ingredients, their quantities and the steps, times and temperatures needed.
  • portionThe amount of a food served to one person. As a verb, to portion means to divide food into equal amounts for serving.

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