Who buys something and totally forgets to use it? (Kitchen Scale)

That would be me.  I bought an Escali Digital Food Scale (mine's RED) a few months ago, when I was ready to start making sourdough and other artisan breads, which I understand to list weights in most recipes. 



First, I didn't make the sourdough starter, because I was waiting for the scale. (probably not necessary)  Then I put the scale aside, because I lost my starter directions.  Meanwhile, I've been making bread and rolls, dividing the dough by the difficult and inaccurate method of eyeing-and-guessing.  Today, though, when struggling with a big batch of dough, trying to divide it for 5 loaves, something clicked in my brain and I remembered to try the scale.  


It was a little awkward to balance the big wad of dough on the scale to get a total.  I'm sure there's a better way, but for today, I divided it approximately in half and weighed each blob on a piece of wax paper placed on the scale.  I then added their weights to get a total, and divided by 5.  Turned out those pieces were too small, so I redivided into 4 big loaves.  I used my probe method to determine doneness, and with them all the same weight, could feel more confident that if one was done properly, the others were, too.


I took too long to decide to photograph the bread...There were only 2 1/4 loaves left.