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I decided to pay a little extra for this ice cream scoop due to the mechanical trigger. However, I later found that several friends had purchased the exact same model (at Target) and theirs broke as well after very few uses. Unfortunately, the metal strip that the trigger controls came loose on my *FIRST* use. I thought perhaps I was unlucky or had just gotten a lemon. I would not recommend this product to anyone. I expected more from an OXO product.
I was using this item on not even hard ice cream and the shaft separated from the scoop.
We use an ice cream scoop to portion out batter into muffin cups. The thumb release on our old one was cheap and broke. This one seems nice and sturdy. We don't use this one for ice cream - it's sole purpose is muffin batter.
If you need an ice cream or cookie scoop, get something else. What were the designers thinking.I replaced it with Oxo's Good Grips Cookie Scoop (large size) from Amazon and couldn't be happier.
I needed a #20 cookie scoop as recommended by Alton Brown. Turns out this is significantly larger than #20.
I bought this because it was the only scoop BB&B had in stock at the time. It did this same thing for ice cream, too.
As such, the scoops were so big the cookies didn't cook evenly - undercooked in the middle, overcooked along the edges.Not only that, the little metal scraper broke off on the second or third use. Fortunately, I was able to reattach it, but a cookie or two later, it broke off again.
It's sturdy and scoops the perfect amount of cookie dough so the cookies are cooked evenly throughout and consistently sized.I ended up tossing this Oxo Good Grips ice cream scoop in the trash. This thing will just frustrate you and fall apart.
This scoop falls apart while in use. The piece that slides inside the scoop flexes and comes out of its slot in the axle then the whole thing falls into four pieces. This would be a good scoop if that sliding piece were stiffer or if it extended into the slot more deeply or if it were firmly attached to the axle instead of being held in place by its weak spring force. This is something that product testing should have discovered before it was put on the market.
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