Gold Star food scale with tray review

The Gold Star Food Scale with Tray is our Best Budget pick at around ₱169 as of August 19, 2026, with 9K+ sold and 2,253 ratings behind a 4.8. The tray is the whole differentiator, and whether it matters depends on what you cook.

Who the tray is actually for

A bare scale platform is a flat plate. That is fine when everything you weigh sits in a bowl, and awkward when it does not.

The tray earns its place with loose ingredients: rice, beans, spices, chopped vegetables, anything that would roll off a flat surface or need a bowl fetched and tared first. It is also easier to pour from a tray into a pot than to tip a flat plate.

If you mostly weigh flour into a mixing bowl, the tray is a thing to store. If you portion rice, weigh spices, or pre-measure ingredients for a recipe, it saves washing up on every single use.

A tray is also a wear point

Worth knowing before you buy: a removable tray is the part that goes missing or gets stained, and on cheap scales it is usually not replaceable separately. Wash it and put it back rather than leaving it in the drying rack, and the scale keeps its advantage.

What is not stated, and what to assume

Capacity and graduation are unlisted. For a household scale in this class, expect around 5kg and 1g, which covers everything a home kitchen weighs. Confirm with the seller if you have a specific need, such as weighing a large turkey or dosing coffee to a tenth of a gram.

The 2,253 ratings behind its 4.8 is a solid sample. It is a third of the feedback the OOKAS scale carries but still far more than most products in any category, and it says the same thing: consistent units, no lurking fault.

Is the Gold Star Food Scale with Tray sulit?

Yes. It undercuts the overall pick and adds an accessory, which is an unusual combination. The reason it is our budget pick rather than our overall pick is the smaller evidence base, not any weakness in the product.

For a first kitchen scale where price is the binding constraint, this is the sensible buy.

Getting the most out of it

Weigh into the tray, and use the tare button between ingredients so you never do arithmetic. Weighing beats measuring cups for anything that packs, which is most baking ingredients: a cup of flour can vary by a fifth depending on how you scoop it, and a scale removes that variable entirely.

Keep it dry underneath. The most common way a cheap scale dies is water working into the battery compartment from a wet counter, not the electronics failing.

Who the Gold Star Food Scale with Tray suits

Buy this if you want the cheapest capable kitchen scale, or if you regularly weigh loose ingredients where a tray genuinely helps.

Skip it if you would rather have the largest possible body of buyer feedback behind your purchase, or if you need coffee-grade resolution. See our best kitchen scales roundup and the kitchen scale buying guide.

If the Gold Star Food Scale with Tray is not right

The OOKAS LCD Food Scale is our overall pick, with nearly four times the ratings for a little more money. The Kanazawa Touch-Screen Coffee Scale is the coffee-specific option with an insulation pad.