perhaps a toilet bowl mount version would be much more entertaining and enable one to calculate, um, displacement?

(iPod ready too, of course)

"Although weighing your food is only really important if you're a chubster watching your weight,"

Alton Brown would disagree.

i wonder if i can i put my raw infant on that?

@Homerjay - so true!

I've gotten serious about cooking great meals - and I have had a few instances where I could have used a scale for measurements... and weighing small packages for eBay...

You'd *really* want to be able to reset the weight to zero, like you can with a lot of analog scales.

For instance often you need to know the weight of the contents of a bowl, so you put the bowl on the scale first, then reset the scale to zero, then put the ingredients in the bowl.

Without a feature to reset the weight, you'd have to work out the difference yourself - which, let's face it, would have a low WAF (wife acceptance factor).

Weighing the ingredients is much more accurate than measuring them by volume. Most cooks in other countries measure by weight.

Here in the USA we gotta be contrary about it all.

Snoop Dogg will be the first on line for this one.

@Ben:
The left-most button on the wall-hanging part is marked "zero". I'd wager that's how one activates the tare function.

And one needn't be a "chubster" to want to measure ingredients by weight, although us former chubsters could use a product like this one.

Not only "Chubsters" need to weigh their food. My kids, for instance, have Phenylketonuria (PKU) a metabolic disorder. Anyone with PKU (or other metabolic disorders) needs to closely monitor their intake of protein and weighing food is a critical part of that.

That said, I think this is a lame idea. What is the point of having the weight of the food on the wall?

"Although weighing your food is only really important if you're a chubster watching your weight"

I guess you don't bake?