What is the Greater Goods coffee scale?
A scale designed around the fact that people spill coffee on scales.
Greater Goods publishes a 0.1g high-precision sensor with a rapid refresh rate, a 6.6lb capacity, a built-in count-up and count-down timer for bloom, extraction and shots, auto-shutoff, a backlit display, and a heat-resistant, dishwasher-safe silicone cover over a 5.25 by 5.25 inch weighing surface.
The cover is the feature, and it is underrated
Water is what kills coffee scales, and almost nothing here is rated against it.
A scale lives directly under a brewer. It gets bloom overflow, drips from a dripper lifted off, condensation from a hot carafe, and eventually a knocked-over cup. Load cells and electronics do not survive that.
Almost every scale on this site publishes no water resistance rating at all, including the Timemores. Greater Goods does not publish an IP rating either, but it does something arguably more useful: it puts a removable, heat-resistant silicone cover over the platform and makes it dishwasher safe.
That means the surface that takes the spill is the part you can lift off and clean properly, and the heat resistance means setting a hot brewer down on it is not a problem. It is a practical answer rather than a certification, and for a scale that will be used daily it probably matters more.
A 133mm platform, and why size decides what fits
Big enough for a Chemex, which several scales here are not.
5.25 inches square takes a full Chemex, a French press or a mug with a V60 on top without overhang. Overhang matters: a vessel resting partly off the platform reads wrong and wobbles.
Compare the Maestri House S2 at 105mm, which is deliberately small so it fits on an espresso drip tray and correspondingly will not take a Chemex. These are opposite design choices and both are right for their job. Buy for the vessel you actually brew into.
Greater Goods vs the Timemore Basic 2.0
Practicality against flow rate.
The Timemore Basic 2.0 publishes a flow rate display and auto timing, which Greater Goods does not. For dialling in a brew, that is the more useful instrument.
Greater Goods answers with a bigger platform, 3kg instead of 2kg, a backlit display and the washable cover. For a scale that gets used daily by a household rather than studied by one person, this is the more sensible object.
Is it worth it?
Worth it as a scale you will still own in five years.
The combination of 0.1g, 3kg, a backlit screen and a genuinely cleanable surface is a good set of choices, and 2,451 reviews suggest it holds up.
Greater Goods publishes no response time, no water resistance rating for the scale itself, no warranty term, no power source and no weight on this listing. The cover is described as waterproof; the scale is not rated, and those are different claims.
Who should buy it (and who should not)
Buy it for a counter where things get spilled.
It suits a household, a shared kitchen, anybody brewing into a large vessel, and anybody who has already killed a scale.
Do not buy it if you want flow rate, which the Timemores have and this does not. And do not read the waterproof cover as a waterproof scale.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Greater Goods scale waterproof?
The silicone cover is described as waterproof and dishwasher safe. No IP rating is published for the scale itself.
How big is the platform?
5.25 inches square, about 133mm, which takes a Chemex or a press.
Does it show flow rate?
No. It has a count-up and count-down timer. For flow rate, the Timemore scales are the ones.
What can it weigh?
Up to 6.6lb, about 3kg, at 0.1g resolution.
Can you put a hot brewer on it?
The cover is heat-resistant, which is what it is for.
