Use the tare button without losing your place

A kitchen scale can measure successive ingredients in one bowl, provided the recipe allows them to be combined at that stage.

1. Read the scale's capacity and measuring instructions. Put it on a suitable level surface, select the recipe's unit and place the empty bowl on it.
2. Press tare and confirm zero before adding the first ingredient. Add slowly near the target weight, then tick that ingredient off your written list.
3. Before the next ingredient, press tare again and check zero. Keep the total physical load within the scale's stated capacity even though the display has been reset.

If interrupted, write down what is already in the bowl before continuing. Measure ingredients separately when the recipe needs them later or when correcting an overshoot would be difficult after mixing.