Kanazawa touch-screen coffee scale review: best for coffee

The Kanazawa Touch-Screen Coffee Scale is around ₱519 as of August 19, 2026, with 1K+ sold and a 4.9 from 396 raters. It is sold as a coffee scale, and coffee asks two things of a scale that general cooking does not.

What a coffee scale needs that a kitchen scale does not

0.1g graduation. Espresso is dosed to a tenth of a gram, because 18.0g and 18.5g in the same basket pull noticeably different shots. A kitchen scale reading in whole grams cannot see that difference at all. For pour-over the tolerance is looser, but you are still weighing a 15g dose where 1g is a 7% error.

A built-in timer. Brewing is a ratio and a duration together. A pour-over recipe is “300g of water over 3 minutes”, and a scale that counts while it weighs means one device instead of a scale plus your phone with wet hands.

Neither is confirmed on this listing. Graduation and maximum capacity are both unstated, and there is no timer in the specifications. That is the thing to resolve with the seller before ordering, because a coffee scale without 0.1g resolution is a kitchen scale with a coffee-coloured pad.

The insulation pad is a real inclusion

The included insulation pad is the part that is unambiguously useful and easy to overlook.

A pour-over dripper or a hot server sits directly on the scale platform, and sustained heat is bad for load cells: it makes readings drift as the sensor warms, and over time it degrades them. A heat pad between the two protects the electronics and keeps the reading stable through a brew.

Buying a general kitchen scale for coffee usually means improvising this with a folded towel, which works but wobbles.

Touch controls, wet hands

Touch controls are the right choice here, and it is worth saying why. A brewing station is a wet environment, and mechanical buttons are where water gets in. A sealed touch panel wipes clean and has no gaps.

The trade is that touch panels can be less responsive with genuinely wet fingertips, so expect to dry a hand before taring.

Is the Kanazawa Touch-Screen Scale sulit?

At around ₱519 it costs roughly two and a half times the general-purpose kitchen scales, and what it should buy you is resolution, a timer and heat protection. One of those three is confirmed.

Ask the seller for the graduation. If it is 0.1g, this is good value for a home brewer. If it is 1g, buy the cheaper kitchen scale and a separate timer.

Who the Kanazawa Touch-Screen Scale suits

Buy this if you brew pour-over or espresso at home, you want the pad and the sealed panel, and you have confirmed the resolution. The 396-rating 4.9 suggests owners are happy with it.

Skip it if you want a general kitchen scale for baking, where whole grams are fine and the coffee features are wasted. See our best kitchen scales roundup and the kitchen scale buying guide.

If the Kanazawa Touch-Screen Scale is not right

The OOKAS LCD Food Scale is our overall pick at well under half the price if general cooking is the real use. The Gold Star Food Scale with Tray adds a tray for loose ingredients, which coffee does not need but baking does.