Norpro Nonstick Anti-Freeze Ice Cream Scoop
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Norpro Nonstick Anti-Freeze Ice Cream Scoop
Customer Review: Great value
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been using one of those mechanical ice cream scoops for years now; the one where you have to push a lever with your thumb to get the ice cream out of the scoop. Those scoops are really only good for mashed potatoes. They're not effective at cutting trough hard ice cream.
This ice cream scoop is a dream. It has an antifreeze liquid inside the handle that is warmed by your hand, and keeps the metal from dropping to the same temperature of the ice cream, which is why it is so hard to scoop in the first place. By keeping the scoop above freezing, it literally cuts like a hot knife through butter.
The nonstick surface is great, but it really isn't effective at aiding in ice cream release. I think it's just a marketing trick.
Overall, this scoop is great value. It's just as good as the brand-name Zeroll and is only a fraction of the cost!
Customer Review: Non-Stick material chips and flakes
Summary: 3 Stars
Amazon has now shipped me two of these scoops... both have been returned because each arrived with the non-stick coating having already chipped and flaked off in multiple places. A little Teflon in my ice cream? No thanks.
Other than that, the scoop looked great and was nice and sturdy. Another reviewer commented that you could hear the anti-freeze liquid sloshing around in the handle, but neither of my scoops had any detectable handle sloshing sounds. I guess I'll try for a third time, but this is getting a bit ridiculous. If I get another defect, I'm going to give up and (gasp!) go to an actual store...
Customer Review: Overrated
Summary: 3 Stars
This scoop is overrated. Other reviews say that it cuts through ice cream with ease, and I submit that it does not. It might be much better than your average cheapo scoop found at Walgreens, but I compared this side by side with my Tupperware scoop, and it's about the same. Do NOT buy this thinking, because of the non-stick surface and anti-freeze qualities, that it will cut through ice cream like butter. It does not. I'm wondering if maybe other people's freezers are set to higher temperatures than mine, maybe, and that's why I didn't see much of a difference.Customer Review: Awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful little product! I eat ice-cream a lot, and my boyfriend finally got tired of me digging into a tub with a spoon and flinging loose pieces around. He bought me this for Christmas and it's made scooping ice-cream mostly effortless. Very sturdy and the anti-freeze is such a great idea. The ice-cream in the scoop just glides off into the cup/bowl. Easy to clean up as well. Works best on slightly softened ice-cream (not frozen solid...). We love it! I even bought one for his mom to share the joy :)Customer Review: Works better than a traditional ice cream scoop
Summary: 4 Stars
The blade edge of this scoop works well to get the ice cream out, and much better than a normal ice cream scoop. I'm not sure how much the anti-freeze in the handle helps, and personally I'd rather it not be there at all. I would imagine you would have to be scooping a lot of ice cream to see a benefit with that feature.
A quick run under hot water from the faucet lets this scoop slide through your ice cream, making perfect scoops.
Simplistic, effective, and no moving parts.