0-90% Brix Meter Refractometer,V·RESOURCING Portable Hand Held Sugar Content Measurement for Sugar, Food, Fruit, Beverages Honey

We ordered this to measure brix on sugar cane juice and syrup. Seems to work very well. Tested it on a few things where we knew the sugar content and it appears to be accurate.

I'm using this to test the sugar content of apple juice that I've fermented with s. Boulardii per dr. William Davis' formula and recommendation. It works very well, very well priced, seems solid. No issues. Would recommend. P.s. when you try and see the value indicated the line is blurry so you won't get a truly precise reading. In my case I like to ferment to a 5 or 4 and I can see its in that range but couldn't tell you precisely. But I don't need that much precision. You might, so keep that in mind!

Use it to make sorbets

Muy util y preciso en las mediciones. Llegó en el tiempo prometido.

So far so good. It arrived perfectly calibrated and has not fallen out of calibration. readings are consistent when you take multiples of the same solution.I tested a store bought apple and discovered it was slightly above average. I then tested one of my strawberries from a pot I haven't been taking particularly good care of and it came out below average. Can't wait to test my tomatoes when they are ripe!The build quality is reasonable for the price. I expect to get many years of testing from this unit. It is easily accurate enough to test brix within a tenth of a brix.

very user friendly item

Had low hopes for this guy, but it was better than I expected. The brix scale was surprisingly accurate, however because the scale is so large (number of digits) the viewing window has really, really small numbers and marks. You can read it, but you gotta squint. It's pretty blurry at the very top, and the very bottom due to laughably poor optic quality but that's rarely where my measurements are so that didn't really matter to me. The middle 75% of the scale was plenty crisp. Here's my big gripe tho. The plastic hinge is too fat so when you close the cover lens it doesn't sit perfectly flat on the prism like it should so the sample doesn't all the way cover the lens when the cover is closed. The top 25%-35% is an air bubble which produces an unusable reading. However, if your $13 or whatever budget left you any room for creativity you can use a thumb-tack and press out the pins that hold the lens cover on and use an emery board (nail file) to moderately sand a millimeter or two off the underside of the black plastic hinge... then, it actually works great!

Got this to test fruit sugar content, and as a beekeeper I also wanted to be able to test the sugar content of my honey. This has a good, wide range that can get both fruit at 10-11% Brix and Honey at 80% Brix. A little fuzzy when it comes to telling the difference between 10% and 11% Brix, but you've got to do several tests and observe carefully as scientists do. Pretty sturdy and easy to clean.