OOKAS LCD food scale review: our budget top pick

The OOKAS LCD Food Scale is our Best Overall kitchen scale at around ₱199 as of August 19, 2026, with 7,934 ratings behind a 4.8 and 10K+ sold. It is the most-rated cheap scale in our ranking by a wide margin.

What a home kitchen actually needs from a scale

The listing states neither capacity nor graduation, so it is worth knowing what the sensible values are before you ask.

5kg of capacity covers essentially all home cooking. Flour for a large batch of bread is under 2kg. A whole chicken is under 2kg. The only common thing that exceeds 5kg is a sack of rice, which you are not weighing on a kitchen scale.

1g graduation is the normal resolution, and it is enough for baking. Bread and cake recipes work in tens and hundreds of grams, where a single gram is noise. The exception is yeast and salt in small quantities, and espresso dosing, where you want 0.1g.

So for the job most people are buying it for, the unstated specifications almost certainly land where you need them. Ask OOKAS.PH to confirm 5kg and 1g if you want certainty; the answer is unlikely to surprise you.

What eight thousand ratings buy you

This is the reason it is our overall pick rather than a better-documented rival.

At 7,934 raters, a 4.8 is not a hopeful average from a handful of early buyers. It is the settled opinion of a very large group, which means the units are consistent and there is no design fault waiting to be discovered. For a cheap electronic device, consistency between units is the thing that actually varies, and the only way to measure it is volume of feedback.

A better-specified scale with 200 ratings is, oddly, the riskier purchase.

The one habit that makes any scale useful

Learn the tare button. Put the empty bowl on, press tare to zero it, add the first ingredient, press tare again, add the second. You measure a whole recipe into one bowl without arithmetic and without washing three measuring cups.

That single habit is why a ₱199 scale replaces a drawer of cups and spoons, and it is more accurate too: a cup of flour varies by up to 20% depending on how you scoop it, where 120g is always 120g.

Is the OOKAS LCD Food Scale sulit?

Yes, straightforwardly. At around ₱199 it costs less than the ingredients for one bake, it will outlast several appliances, and it makes every recipe you follow more repeatable.

Who the OOKAS LCD Food Scale suits

Buy this if you want one kitchen scale and do not want to think about it. It is the right default for baking, portioning and general cooking.

Skip it if you brew espresso and need 0.1g, or if you want a tray for loose ingredients. See our best kitchen scales roundup and the kitchen scale buying guide.

If the OOKAS LCD Food Scale is not right

The Gold Star Food Scale with Tray is cheaper and includes a tray, which helps with loose ingredients like rice and spices. The Kanazawa Touch-Screen Coffee Scale is the one to look at if coffee is the real reason you want a scale.