I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.
🤔Hmm doubt it's humidity issue the issue. But more importantly why is it not in 500g packets like all the pasta in the world?
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I have the same scale. I wouldn't trust it too far, especially combined with the tolerances and humidity weight changes.
-2% is probably allowed and this is -1.95%. It's okay I guess. I'd probably trust my cheap, regularly used and never calibrated kitchen scale less than I would trust these companies to comply with such rules.
Hopefully it’s got to average. If they’re cutting 2% off all the time that’s no good
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"shrinkflation" or smth
That would be outright illegal. It's more likely that op lives in lower humidity areas and non air tight food looses some water weight, or that op needs to calibrate their scale or buy a new one.
Yeah, uh… you realize there are net weight tolerances, right? Companies aren’t expected to get exactly the same weight for every single item they put out. And it’s not really possible for certain products.
This though, is likely pushing the limit.
Op is talking like everything he weighs is shorted. The tolerances you speak of mean that sometimes you're a bit over, and sometimes you're a bit under.
But if my 40 pack of pizza rolls stops at 39, ima riot.
Fwiw, I just put the contents of two packets of pasta on my own scale. The first was 1g under, the other 2g over.
I'm all for scrutinising companies, but I don't think Big Pasta is trying to cheat us here.
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I was kinda confused why everyone's sucking the D of the corps here, and comments reiterating stuff already said.
But then I reminded myself at least 150 up voted this and all is right again.
Some of us work for corps and see people trying to do their best to help people every day. It’s tempting to think there’s this hidden layer of control somewhere, where the evil people are. Maybe it’s there, I dunno. To me the evil people seem to be spread throughout.
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So if moisture is a factor, what do you propose otherwise?
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I worked on a manufacturing line for 4oz pepper cans
They had a machine that weighed them and kicked out underweight ones.
The tolerances were horrible.
McCormick was 3.9 I think
Black and white can 3.5. !!!
Yes both were made on the same exact line
Typical Big Noodle theft tactics
See also: 2x4s
(how is lumber measured in Europe? Are 2x4s called 2x4s? or 50x100s?)
They reverse it in England, 4x2s
Not surprising but: metric units, and they are the units of the finished product not some arbitrary historical size lumber used to be
47 x 100 as I recall from my days working in a Builders Merchant, still referred to as 'four by two' by builders though
If everything you're measuring is lower than expected, you should check the calibration of the scale. Weigh 2 or 3 things you know the weight of that are at different ranges of weights, light, heavy, medium, and see if any are off. Often a scale will be accurate at only within a certain range and get progressively less accurate as the weight increases or decreases from that range.
It's a 2% difference. The cutting and packaging is done (most probably) by machines. I have clinically diagnosed OCD, and I wouldn't care about 8g of missing pasta... How much do you leave on the plate/in the pot/throw away? :)
Otoh, hitting exactly 410g (assuming the scale is calibrated, and you have the same temperature, air moisture and altitude as the factory), is very difficult. They could adjust their machines so the variation hangs a bit more towards the customer, but for them, 2% x millions of boxes = profit.
This really isn't a big deal, the customer paid 2% less off this specific box. Oh.
This isn't a big deal, the customer paid 2% less than the calculated total for their entire order at checkout and only had to say "me shorting this transaction is just a statistical probability and you should view it as the cost of doing business with me." Oh.
This isn't a big deal, the customer gets massive subsidies from the government while the poor manufacturers have to pay stupid worker safety fees and unfair payroll during times of extreme economic 'fortune'. Oh.
That seems around what I'd expect the measurement error to be anyway
Most of our packaging machines require < 1%, target <0.5% variance (both ways). Honestly in practice, over a whole batch the total variance is extremely tiny.
Add to this story the accuracy of a household, not-calibrated scale? Yeah I'd say this seems OK.
What do you make?
Tolerances for food items depend a lot on item size, shape, and irregularity.
I mean.. that's a good point. I only make bulk materials, like 1 ton supersaks, and we tend to OVERfill so customers don't complain, with the target still being close to zero for a whole batch.