OXO Good Grips 11-Pound Stainless Steel Scale Review
#2 of 8 · Best build / readability✓ Product photos checked Sep 7, 2026Real retailer photo, cut out. Label unedited.
Buy it. The buy-it-for-life scale — best build and readability on the list, at an honest premium. The sturdiest construction in our lineup, a removable stainless platform you can actually wash, and a backlit pull-out display that big plates can't hide.
~$50
Why It Scores 8.9 — And The Label Line Behind Each Number
Accuracy & resolution
35% of scoreSolid and dependable: 1 g / ⅛ oz resolution across the full 11 lb / 5 kg range, with stable readings and OXO's zero function for taring containers. That's everything honest tracking requires — but it lacks the 0.1 g fine mode of the Etekcity and Ozeri, which matters for small calorie-dense foods, so it scores below the precision leaders on our heaviest-weighted axis.
- Resolution
- 1 g / ⅛ oz
Features (tare, units, extras)
25% of scoreThe pull-out backlit display is the standout feature of the entire category — it slides forward so a big plate or bowl never hides the readout, solving the most common daily annoyance of scale use. Zero/tare works cleanly, units switch between grams and pounds/ounces at a press. Fewer units than the multi-unit budget picks (no dedicated ml mode), which is the only thing keeping this score from the top.
- Units
- Grams and pounds/ounces (⅛ oz steps)
Build & material
25% of scoreThe best on the list, and it isn't close. A stainless-steel platform that lifts off for real hand-washing, a housing and buttons built to OXO's usual over-engineered standard, and a design that survives years of daily kitchen abuse. Per our material principle, a removable food-safe stainless surface is the most hygienic arrangement here — the reason this is the buy-it-for-life pick.
Value (price)
15% of scoreAt roughly $50 it's the priciest pick in the lineup — more than double the Etekcity — for the same 1 g headline resolution, so it takes the lowest value score in the top group. But value is deliberately our smallest criterion: what the premium buys (build, washability, the pull-out display) is real and durable. Fair price for a decade-class tool; poor price if you just need a number.
- Price
- ~$50 — the premium, buy-it-for-life pick of the lineup
- More Specs
- Capacity
- 11 lb / 5 kg
- Platform material
- Stainless steel; lifts off for hand-washing
- Display
- Backlit LCD on a pull-out rail — slides clear of large plates/bowls
- Tare / zero
- Yes (Zero button)
- Power
- Batteries (replaceable)
Photos checked.This product has no Supplement Facts panel; the retailer's listing photos were reviewed Sep 7, 2026.
Marketing Claims Vs. Reality
The display pulls out from the base so large plates never block the readout.
The pull-out display is the product's signature design feature, stated on the listing and visible in the product imagery. It directly addresses display shadowing — the most common ergonomic complaint with flat kitchen scales — and is unique in our eight-pick lineup.
Stainless-steel platform removes for easy cleaning.
Per the listing, the stainless weighing surface lifts off the scale body for washing. Combined with the food-safe stainless material, this is the most hygienic cleaning arrangement in our lineup and the basis of its top build-and-material score.
Weighs up to 11 lb with 1 g / ⅛ oz precision.
Manufacturer spec on the listing: 11 lb / 5 kg capacity at 1 g (metric) or ⅛ oz (imperial) increments. Matches the standard full-size capacity of the category; note it does not offer a 0.1 g fine mode — our accuracy score reflects that honestly.
A food scale meaningfully helps weight loss.
The category claim, and the only research-backed one on this page: obese adults underreported their actual calorie intake by ~47% in Lichtman 1992 (NEJM, PMID 1454084) and misjudged solid foods roughly ten times more than liquids in Lasschuijt 2019 (PMID 31255647). A scale replaces that error with an exact gram weight — the device makes the calorie count honest; it doesn't change your body.
What Our Test Actually Found
The pull-out display is the rare gimmick-looking feature that isn't one
Most scale 'innovations' are screen dressing. This one solves a physical problem you hit daily: any plate or bowl wider than the platform overhangs the display, forcing you to duck and squint. The OXO's display slides forward on a solid rail until the numbers sit fully clear of the food, and the backlight plus large digits finish the job. For anyone who weighs meals on actual dinnerware — which is exactly how portion control works in practice — it's the single best ergonomic feature in the category, and no other pick in our lineup has an answer to it.
Build quality is a weight-loss feature, not a luxury
A food scale only works if it's used at every meal for months, and the scale that gets used is the one that's pleasant to use and trivial to clean. The OXO's removable stainless platform means raw chicken or oily dressing is a sink-wash away from gone, not a nervous wipe around electronics; the buttons and housing shrug off daily abuse. That's why our build-and-material criterion carries 25% and why the OXO's 9.6 on it — the best score in the lineup — is worth real money. Durability compounds: a scale that lasts ten years at $50 is cheaper than three $20 scales that annoy you into a drawer.
What the premium doesn't buy: resolution
The honest gap in the spec sheet is that $50 buys 1 g / ⅛ oz — the same headline resolution as scales at a third of the price, and coarser than the 0.1 g fine mode on the $20 Etekcity. For meals and portions this never matters; for the small calorie-dense foods where a gram or two of oil is 15-20 calories, the Etekcity gives a tighter number. Our 35%-weighted accuracy criterion prices this in (8.8 vs the Etekcity's 9.6), and it's precisely why the best-built scale on the list is #2 rather than #1. Know which buyer you are before paying the premium.
Full analysis: all pros & cons (7), buy if / skip if
- Best construction and button quality in the lineup — the genuine buy-it-for-life pick
- Backlit pull-out display slides clear of big plates and bowls; easiest scale to read here
- Stainless-steel platform lifts off for real hand-washing after wet or raw food
- Solid, stable 1 g / ⅛ oz readings across the full 11 lb capacity with reliable zero/tare
- No 0.1 g fine mode — coarser than the cheaper Etekcity for oils and nut butters
- At ~$50 the most expensive pick in the lineup; lowest value score of the top group
- Fewer unit options than the multi-unit budget scales (no dedicated ml mode)
- You want a scale you'll still be using in ten years — the best construction and buttons on the list
- You weigh on plates and wide bowls and are tired of crouching to read a shadowed display
- You want a stainless platform that lifts off for real hand-washing after raw or wet food
- You're happy to pay a ~$50 premium for build quality, per our quality-over-price principle
- You want 0.1 g fine resolution for oils and nut butters — the Etekcity (#1) or Ozeri Pronto (#4) do that for far less
- You want maximum accuracy-per-dollar — the ~$20 Etekcity wins that contest outright
- You want 22 lb of capacity for big batches — that's the Greater Goods (#5) or Nicewell (#6)
The sturdiest construction in our lineup, a removable stainless platform you can actually wash, and a backlit pull-out display that big plates can't hide. It reads to 1 g (no 0.1 g mode) and costs ~$50 — the price of buying once. Get it if longevity and readability matter more than fine resolution or a low price; get the Etekcity (#1) if you want 0.1 g precision for $20.
The OXO Good Grips 11-pound scale is what happens when a company that over-engineers vegetable peelers builds a food scale. Everything about it is the sturdiest version of the idea: a stainless-steel platform that lifts off for proper hand-washing, buttons that click like they'll outlive you, and the category's single best ergonomic feature — a backlit display that pulls out from under the platform so a dinner plate or wide mixing bowl can never shadow the numbers. If you've ever crouched to peer under your own food to read a weight, this scale was designed for you. It sits at #2 in our lineup rather than #1 for two honest reasons our criteria make explicit. Resolution is a solid but unremarkable 1 g / ⅛ oz — enough for honest tracking, but without the 0.1 g fine mode the cheaper Etekcity offers for small calorie-dense foods. And at roughly $50 it's the most expensive pick here, which our value criterion (deliberately just 15%) reflects with the lowest value score in the top group. But on build and material — 25% of the score, and weighted that heavily on purpose — it's the clear leader at 9.6. This is the buy-once scale: pay more today, clean it easily, read it effortlessly, and still be using it in ten years. Here's the full breakdown.
Buy it if you're buying once — the best-built, most readable scale on the list at an honest premium.
The OXO Good Grips is the scale for the buyer who hates replacing things. Its 9.6 build-and-material score is the best in our lineup and reflects exactly what you can feel: a removable stainless platform you can wash at the sink, buttons and housing engineered to outlast the fad diets it will supervise, and the pull-out backlit display that makes it the only scale here you can always read with a full dinner plate on top. Used daily — which is the entire point of a food scale — those qualities are worth the premium. The two trade-offs are clear-eyed ones. It reads to 1 g rather than 0.1 g, so the small-food precision crown stays with the Etekcity (#1), and at ~$50 it costs more than twice as much as scales that produce the same honest gram number for a tracker. If accuracy-per-dollar is your metric, buy the Etekcity and don't look back. But if you want the version of this tool that's still on your counter in a decade — cleaning easily, reading effortlessly, never once making you crouch to see a number — this is the one to buy, and you only have to buy it once.
If This Doesn’t Fit — Try These
01Etekcity 0.1 g Food Scale
This is the food scale to buy if you want one and want it right.
03Escali Primo
The Escali Primo is the scale to buy if you value rugged simplicity over features.
06Nicewell 22 lb Food Scale
The Nicewell is the one to get if you cook in volume.
Quick Answers
What does the pull-out display actually solve?
The most common everyday annoyance of food scales: shadowing. Put a dinner plate, a wide mixing bowl, or a baking sheet on a normal scale and the rim hangs over the display — you end up crouching and peering under your own food to read the weight. The OXO's display slides forward out from under the platform on a sturdy rail, so the readout sits clear of whatever you're weighing. Combined with the backlight and large digits, it's simply the easiest scale to read in our lineup, every single meal. It sounds minor until you've used it; then every other scale feels awkward.
Is 1 g resolution enough, or should I hold out for 0.1 g?
For everyday weight-loss tracking, 1 g is genuinely enough — it's the floor we insist on, and it turns any portion into an honest, loggable number. Where 0.1 g helps is small, calorie-dense foods like oil and nut butter, where a few grams is real calories; the Etekcity (#1) and Ozeri (#4) offer that finer mode for less money. The OXO's answer is that it trades resolution finesse for the best build and readability in the category. If you weigh mostly meals and portions, you'll never miss the 0.1 g; if you obsess over oil-and-spice-level precision, pair differently or pick the Etekcity.
Is the OXO worth $50 when good scales cost $20?
Only if you value longevity and ergonomics — which is exactly the buyer this scale exists for. A $20 Etekcity and this OXO both weigh accurately to 1 g; what the extra money buys is the most premium construction on the list (OXO's typical over-engineered buttons and housing), a stainless platform that lifts off for real hand-washing rather than a wipe-around, and the pull-out display you'll appreciate at every meal for a decade. Our value criterion honestly dings it for the price (7.6, the lowest value score in the top group), but build and material are 25% of the score for good reason — this is the scale you buy once.
How do you clean it — can the platform really come off?
Yes, and that's one of its quiet advantages. The stainless-steel weighing platform lifts off the body, so after weighing something wet or raw you can wash the actual surface at the sink with soap instead of carefully wiping around electronics. The body underneath stays dry, the display tucks back in, and the whole thing reassembles in seconds. For a device that touches food every day, a removable, washable stainless surface is the most hygienic arrangement in our lineup — and it's a big part of why the OXO posts the top build-and-material score (9.6) here.
Sources & Further Reading
2 peer-reviewed sources, each linked to PubMed
- [1] Lichtman 1992 PMID 1454084 — Discrepancy between self-reported and actual caloric intake and exercise in obese subjects. Doubly-labeled-water study: obese adults who reported diet resistance underreported their actual caloric intake by 47% on average and overreported activity by 51% — self-report fails exactly where weighing is exact. The evidence for owning a food scale at all; the OXO's specs themselves are manufacturer claims, not research.
- [2] Lasschuijt 2019 PMID 31255647 — Unaware of the amount consumed: systematic error in estimating food- and drink intake. Estimation error was roughly ten times greater for solid foods than liquids — the foods a kitchen scale weighs. Weighing in grams beats eyeballing, whichever pick delivers the gram.
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