Dne of the best restaurant tools has been slow to catch on in home kitchens: the humble scale. Americans' reluctance to use weight to measure ingredients has a lot to do with our recipes being written in a volume-centric style. Weight measure is more accurate-dry ingredients can compress when you scoop them, introducing variations in volume-but we still stick with our cups. The Drop scale and its attendant app could get you to change your ways. It connects to an iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth LE. The iPad app offers nearly 300 recipes. It weighs each ingredient onscreen as you add it and gives step-by-step recipe guidance-from flour in a bowl to cookies in the oven. (The iPhone app will be updated soon to include recipes.) It's not perfect; the scale itself lacks a display, so you need your phone or iPad to weigh out your morning coffee. But if you want to improve your kitchen-fu, get the drop on Drop.
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