I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Let me introduce you to tolerance in measuring instruments and measuring errors.

    Edit: Apparently I’m pro evil companies because I just pointed out that scales (and more importantly non-professional scales) have relatively high error tolerances (+ the measurament method error). Thus the measuring of this pasta and the possible interpretations of it have to take into account that.

  • supercriticalcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    🤔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?

  • neeeeDanke@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Weigh some things you know the exact weight of like 1L of water or your phone (you can google most phones weights, without the case and only if you dont have a screen protector of course). I had the same issue at home but realized my scale was jus off most of the time.

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    That brings up a question, is that 410g required to be just the edible product or could it include the weight of the packaging?

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      9 months ago

      There’s an allowed margin of error, too. If they happen to have gram-level precision, but have 10g leeway for a given product, this might be a good way to save scrape out a bit more margin.

      • ede1998@feddit.deEnglish
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        9 months ago

        That would be easy to prevent though with an additional requirement: The average weight over N products must be within X% of the specified weight. This way the producer cannot intentionally underfill.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        9 months ago

        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.

        • not_exactly@feddit.deEnglish
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          9 months ago

          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.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I weighted my 500 gram broccoli recently and it was over 800 grams so I guess this goes both ways. Or then they’re compensating for the stem.

  • Numhold@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    When did shrinkflation become acceptable for pasta? Even though it‘s been legal for a while to sell more individual package sizes, I would never accept a package of pasta that doesn‘t say 500g or more on it.

  • skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Sup, I’m your local friendly USDA contractor who very much uses scales everyday. Consumer grade kitchen scales are terrible and will lie to you. The fact that it does not go out to the tenths or hundredths is a big flag for accuracy.

    We check test our scales twice a year to make sure they are accurate. I once tried check testing my kitchen scale I use for canning for giggles and it failed miserably. It would only register weight on 2 out of 4 quadrants until I got to 10g or so. I’m sure my ohaus is going to show a different and more accurate result if I where to try it.

  • Kühe sind toll@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Depending on where you live this is actually illegal. In Germany, as example, if you say that something contains 200g it means that there have to be at least 200g inside. If its less, that can cost the producer a lot if he gets fined for it.

    • ZeldaFreak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Except no. First issue it’s messured wrong. You messure a full package and then an empty one in the factory. Losses during shipping and so on is the problem of the customer. Especially meat looses a lot of water. People don’t weigh the water in the cloth.

      Also the little e (estimated sign, 76/211/EEC) besides the package does specially allow variations. Only the entire batch must be correct on average. But there is a limit on how much variations is allowed. And big companies are closely watched.