Norpro Stainless Steel Scoop, 50mm (3-Tablespoon)
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Norpro Stainless Steel Scoop, 50mm (3-Tablespoon)
Customer Review: Keeps breaking
Summary: 2 Stars
I find that if you have hard ice cream to scoop the more this ice cream scooper breaks. Squeezing this hard sometimes pushes it out of it's gears and it is a pain to get it back on line.More of a headache than useful..
Customer Review: Flawed design
Summary: 1 Stars
I needed an icecream scoop and this scoop looked very nice in the store. The entire scoop is made of stainless steel and looks impressive. Being an engineer I thought the rack and pinion gears at the bottom of the handle connected directly to the bowl sweeper was a great design that would allow the user to directly apply maximum pressure to dislodge whatever you are scooping. But it turned out to be horribly flawed when scooping icecream (.
When you are scooping hard icecream the sweeper blade will get stuck in the bowl. If you squeeze the handle with any serous pressure the pinion gear will start to strip and then the rack and pinion gears will skip a tooth. Not only is your icecream still stuck in the bowl but now the sweeper blade doesn't align correctly with the side of the bowl. And it is a pain to re-mesh the rack and pinion correctly.
Another flaw in the design is that there is no way get a good grip on the handle without squeezing the two sides together. That means the sweeper blade will get stuck under a scoop of icecream in the middle of the bowl and the spring is not strong enough to pull it back to the home position. Also if the very top of the scoop pushes against the icecream the top end of the sweeper blade will pop out of it's bearing hole. Then if you squeeze the handle the sweeper blade will bend and deform. You have to bend it back into shape by hand.
All of this contributes to a very frustrating experience trying to scoop a bowl of icecream
Customer Review: Painful
Summary: 1 Stars
It may work O.K. for melons, but the handle is extremely uncomfortable and ackward to grip when attempting to scoop ice cream. In addition, the shape of the scoop bowl makes it difficult to get a full scoop of ice cream.Customer Review: Inaccurate
Summary: 1 Stars
This was sold as a two tablespoon scoop. It is not. It is a 3 tablespoon scoop.