Scales

In most restaurant kitchens, a standard kitchen scale measuring to a tenth of a gram is sufficient. For some of the newer compounds being used by modernist cooks, which may be used in minute amounts, a more accurate scale, measuring to a hundredth or even a thousandth of a gram, is necessary. Because such sensitive scales will weigh only modest amounts, most kitchens have two scales: one for measuring relatively large amounts and the other reserved for working with smaller amounts of powerful compounds.