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Bluetooth-connected kitchen scale and iPad app aim to make baking foolproof (Video)

If you enjoy baking but need close supervision from a grown-up, Drop’s Connected Scale and accompanying recipe app for the iPad may be just the thing. A clever combination of interactive recipes and automatic weighing means that the iPad effectively supervises you as you work.

You can use the Connected Scale on its own, displaying the weight of ingredients on your iPad screen, but it’s when you use it with the free recipe app that it comes into its own … 

The app prompts you to carry out each step of the recipe – right down to placing a bowl on the scales. If you’re not sure how to carry out a step, you can hit a button to pull up a video illustration. When the app prompts you to add an ingredient to the bowl on the scale, the app monitors the scale in real time, automatically moving on to the next step when you’ve added enough.

For steps that the app can’t monitor, like setting a temperature on the oven, you can keep your iPad screen free from greasy fingermarks by pressing a button on the scale to tell the app to move on to the next step.

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At $100, it’s not cheap, but isn’t ridiculously more expensive than less intelligent premium kitchen scales. You can order direct from Drop.

Via Engadget

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Comments

  1. How is “with your iPad” using the scale “on its own?”

    The instruction app is the whole point with this scale. Without it, the scale is completely pointless and having your iPad on the counter top just another thing to get in the way.

    • Ben Lovejoy - 9 years ago

      It functions as a standard scale, just using the iPad screen as a large display. But I agree it would be overkill for that.

    • J.Johnson - 9 years ago

      What you typed and used in quotations is not what the article said. Here is the actual quote

      “You can use the Connected Scale on its own, displaying the weight of ingredients on your iPad screen, but it’s when you use it with the free recipe app that it comes into its own … ”

      When reading it how it is written it makes perfect sense.

  2. Blair Slavin - 9 years ago

    Now if they add connecting it to other apps to use recipes that are more Carb Friendly / and food tracking for diet apps… now that will be cool. But someone had to do it for others to piggy back and barrow on this great idea.

  3. rahhbriley - 9 years ago

    Generic marijuana joke.

  4. Daniela Karpf - 9 years ago

    What if you want to do a recipe that is not on the app. Can you enter the recipe manually or how can you use recipes from your own?

    • sonicsoundvw - 9 years ago

      If i were you, i would definitely send them an email and give them this idea. That would be a great tool for their app!! Also, add a database where people can post or upload their own recipes. That would greatly increase the amount of recipes on hand.

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