From the kitchen ‘man draw’, I retrieved a screwdriver and simply removed the cradle from the red kitchen scales. For those who know me personally having me actually owning a screwdriver might come as a surprise… but there it was. Still in its original packaging…

The oversized red scales look lovely but the cradle and tray is large enough to hold a small child and proved impossible to use in the Kitchen Scales series of food pictures. Removing part of it means it doesn’t work as a scale anymore but I don’t think that matters in terms of being a photo prop.

For the first image, I went with Sausages from my local butcher. They are simple herby sausages, they call them Farmhouse Sausages, and are a firm favourite. I just used a tray from one of the other scales and am rather pleased with the result.

Having uploaded the image to Instagram and put the print up for sale on Etsy, if the background is a bit ‘muddy’ and I should have gone for a cleaner green texture…

The Kitchen Scales series is progressing well. The intention is to construct two calendars - one focusing on fruit and vegetables, a meat-free version if you like, while the other has a mix of fresh produce and meat/fish and so on.