I don’t know what fascinates me more – the scales themselves or the fact that there is a website devoted to selling weighing implements!

These are not your normal kitchen scales – tap in the 3 digit code of the food you’re about to weigh and it will give you the nutritional information for it.

Fat, Protein, Carbohydrate, Kilocalories, Kilojoules and Cholesterol are calculated, displayed and totalled up so by the time you’ve mixed the ingredients for the cake you should be guilted into not eating any of it

OK, so you have to lookup the code for each food group but I guess if you use it regularly enough you’d get to know them.

You can pick it up in the UK from the aptly named Scales Express