By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2010-12-22 06:04:48 | Word Count: 664
If you’re in the restaurant, food manufacturing, food preparation or food processing business, you know how important the reliability and toughness of a hanging food scale can be. Not only is it necessary that these scales be durable, they need to be easily cleaned and manufactured with stainless steel components for ruggedness, and in order to minimize the risks of food borne illness to your customers and workers.
There are a variety of scales from which to choose. You might need something capable of holding a very large weight, such as large carcasses in a meat industry application, or, perhaps you plan to use it in a hospital environment where being able to control meal portion sizes for patients is very important. No matter the application, you will need baskets that are sturdily constructed, hooks that are made of steel (to adequately handle the loads), and digital faces that are large and easy to read.
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When in the kitchen or commissary, it’s vital that food weight be accurately measured to ensure portion control and cost management. Overages result in loss of revenue, and under-weight served items result in loss of customer satisfaction. Moreover, recipes calling for stringent ingredient additions can suffer from loose measurements and weights. If you are off even a little in a complicated recipe, the taste will suffer and so will your business. If you’re off even a little on portion control for a large catering event, your bottom line will suffer even more.
Even more important from a monetary standpoint is the commercial hanging food scale. Scales that are easily damaged, cheaply made, and/or inaccurate in their measurements would only add to your overhead costs. You want a scale that is durably constructed, with heavy-duty components that can withstand whatever you throw at them, whether it is in a manufacturing/industrial setting or in a restaurant application.
Environmental factors need to be withstood reliably, including heat and cold, hot oil spills, humidity control issues, and handler abuse. Electronics need to be made to stand up to user-abuse, as well as environmental factors, ensuring accurate, reliable readouts every time. Consistency is important in food preparation, food processing, and manufacturing, thus a steady, reliable, solidly constructed scale is an invaluable aid in these processes.
In some cases, the convenience of having an attachable-detachable hanging basket can be indispensable. Bringing a container already filled to the measuring device instead of loading its hanging basket with food products keeps your food waste to a minimum and greatly reduces the chances of cross-contamination. Don’t worry; hanging food scales will allow you to zero out the weight of the container so you get a measurement of the food product only.
Given the messiness of most meal preparation or food manufacturing environments, the risk of cross-contamination is always a concern; so easy cleaning is a must for a hanging food scale. Plus, the use of hanging scales also offers to your cooks or workers the flexibility of adding new ingredients to a mix, without having to separately measure each one before inclusion.
Whether analog or digital, these scales offer easy readability with large faces and easy to clean surfaces, making their use more dependable for those who professional industries that would employ their use.
The digital option means more accurate measurement than with an analog option; the results can be displayed on a computer, allowing for easier estimations, billing and cost analysis. Ethernet transfer options for in-office printing are available, as are memory cards and USB ports. Batching functions can be custom ordered for your applications. Safety is held in mind with the design and implementation of industrial, digital scales as well, with easy to read displays ensuring that a worker doesn’t need to be standing right over the weighing process, and transfer of information via computer allows for lowered exposure time to toxic fumes and chemicals.
Stainless steel scales are the most rugged you can buy, while digital scales are the most accurate. Why not buy a scale that combines the two technologies? The industrial and practical applications of these scales are virtually limitless. Literally hundreds of businesses and plants use industrial scales for the accurate measurement of their products, and rely on the safety and durability of a well-made, stainless digital scale.
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