These scales look great, the brushed metal top plate is just what I wanted, so often you buy something on line and it doesn't look the way you thought it was going to from looking at the photo. These scales have what is called 'Intelligent zero setting' it says in the small print on the back of the instructions, but for baking it's very acceptable and I'm happy with these scales. You have to be careful with this function, with some scales I've tried you end up adding twice as much salt as you think. There doesn't seem to be a way to set any auto off function which I haven't found yet, the instructions are minimal to say the least, but if they're like my last set of Soehnle scales they'll last for years.