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@@Bukki13 it’s half of that in the US but euro prices are crazy in general rn it seems 😩 not sure if it’s related to the energy crisis, inefficient international supply-chain by the brand, or if they’re taking a page out of apple’s book by just marking up non-U.S. more
@@TheLastOrange nah, my dad bought an ice cream scooper at the dollar store and it broke in half when I tried to get a scoop, our old ice cream scooper was much better.
This is the first reason. This guy is a fucking moron (op not you homie). They weigh the ice cream at some places. Do they not use scoops? No they do. Because the only reason anybody uses a scoop. Obviously the spoon isn’t meant for it.
There’s two different types of scoops though so I think he meant that type instead of the other type of scoop, not necessarily a spoon. Edit: Nvm I just watched the video again to make sure. But it still would be true as with a diff type of scooper, you have to pack it in for it to be round
@@oddbluedragon no. When you take ice-cream out of the refrigerator and start scooping with a spoon (spooning?) It can easily bend if you apply enough force. Talking from experience. I mean I'd argue you can bend most spoons in your hands anyways
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You forgot to mention that we use a scooper because the heat in our hand gets transferred to the the part where we scoop because of the liquid present in the scooper itself or because of the conduction of the metal
They also tend not to break when ice cream is very hard. Their thick handle is easier to grip and push through hard ice cream. You can use them at home as well!!!
Like @gracynspencer5208 said, they also help to melt the ice cream, making scooping easier. If you look at the design of the scoop, it's got a big, thick metal handle, which helps to conduct heat from your hands straight into the ice-cream, allowing you to cut through the ice cream when scooping.
@@peasant502isn’t it because there is some kind of liquid in the thick handle that make is conduct heat, and is the reason why you hear swishing sounds when shaking the scoop?
@kaitlynlin0330 well, really there are plenty of types of ice cream scoops, and to accomplish heat conduction, some of them are liquid filled. I have no idea about any swishing sound, and to be honest I haven't used an ice cream scoop in a long while, and my background is more in physics than the ice cream industry. I would assume, however, that there are plenty of types of ice cream scoops with plenty of different interior heat-transfer mechanisms. Essentially, it depends on the scoop what it's filled with. I've also seen plastic ones, which seem to me like they would conduct heav very poorly, so I assume the heat conduction is more of an accidental feature than a designed one.
No one has ever wondered why ice cream stores don't use dinner spoons to scoop their ice cream. Babies come out of the womb knowing that scoops are better.
@thehauntedtree My point was that the opening line ("Have you ever wondered why ice cream stores use scoops instead of spoons, like the rest of us?"), taken at face value, is a ridiculous question. Why do businesses use specialized tools, instead of just using whatever they've got lying around at home? Why do they use boxcutters to open boxes, instead of, idk, their keys? Like a normal person? Yes, as you've pointed out, the video does show how scoops can be used to make less ice look like more. That doesn't really change the fact that they're better at scooping ice cream, but that's beside the point.
@@thehauntedtreeShocking discovery for you, im sure. Turns out, paying for the cup of ice cream is more expensive than buying tubs from your grocery store. Must be nice to be so shocked by everything.
ice creams employees like me would drive owners to bankruptcy quicker :). We use to bet among employees who can build a cone highest :) for the sample price, of course.
@danielfletcher8962 bro why are you so aggressive? They just shared a cool story. Also the idea that it prevents "overserving" is stupid. The cost of a scale would vastly outweigh the 0.87 grams of ice cream saved. Also the cost of paying an employee to scrape flakes of ice cream back into the tub would be redundant anyways.
@@danielfletcher8962 I mean, it was fair in the sense that the customer got the amount of ice cream they paid for. And if I really wanted to serve someone extra, it's not like the scale itself could get up and stop me.
@logemcdoge4620 It's fine. They're not necessarily wrong, just a bit cynical. The franchise owner certainly wouldn't want us giving away more ice cream than people paid for. It's a business after all, and the capitalists gotta make as much profit as they can exploiting the workers and customers. They just don't use illusions based on the shape of scoops of ice cream to do it.
Yeah, I’m my experience both premises of this video are wrong: 1) The ice cream places I go to pack in and don’t leave a giant gap. 2) I use an ice cream scoop. I don’t want a bent spoon and they just aren’t that expensive and don’t take up that much space.
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@@DandelyonDawnHe probably is correct during the Great Depression which was seemingly what he was really talking about..but nowadays it is standard to pack it
The scooper is actually made from a special material that heats up quickly using the warmth of your hand which allows the scoops bit to melt the ice cream slightly to allow easier scooping
They are also used because specific ice cream scoops have a liquid in them that heats up the scoop from your hand warmth, making them easier to scoop with.
as someone who worked at an ice cream store for a long time, most scoopers pack the scoop to avoid this. the only time i would scoop like that is when a parent would ask me to give their kid a tiny portion so i could make the kid feel like they were getting a ton of ice cream
which i haaate, i specifically ask for just one scoop and say i know you’re supposed to put like several in “one” but i can’t eat that much please truly just give me one and i’ll pay full price regardless. but they still give me three and i have to just plop two into a trash can or on the ground. so annoying.
@@1javixDwho in their right mind has 1 scoop of ice cream, and diet won't matter because they wouldn't have ice cream in their house anyway, unless they were dedicated But even people on a diet would have 2 scoops
@@rjlami4325it’s literally the only reason it works so idk why this dude left out the chemical liquid that gets warm when our hands touch the handle it’s actually super cool science but like the majority of RU-vid now in days it’s just stolen info and reused content RU-vid is failing spread the word 😅
eh, I disagree, the shanks of icecream you get from a spoon are less uniform and therefore less conventionally attractive, we can find things appealing without it having to be a marketing ploy.@@EsotericThoughts93
@@Doost311 oh I hundred percent agree with that but there’s no way decades and decades of marketing the “ideal” sundae to us doesn’t play a big role in why we think that way
@@EsotericThoughts93 Food presentation has been a cultural establishment for thousands of years. Try to retain your grip on reality while I attempt to shatter your world view here: capitalism is not responsible for every facet of human life. Surprising, I know.
in more Technical side of things, the scoop is designed with material that uses your hands Heat to melt the surface of ice cream it come in contact to, helping scoop the ice cream without much resistance
storage temperature and serving temps should actually be diffrent. When we scoop ice cream at home, we do from storage temps since most freezers are at -18 C At the store, they would set it warmer so the ice cream is much softer.
I thought you were going to say the actual reason they dont use spoons. The third and main reason they dont use spoons is spoons break at the handle much easier. Scoops are much thicker and almost never break. Reducing the need to buy more spoons.
Most ice cream places I've been to aren't that stingy with the scoops, they just keep rolling it a bit more until it's a solid scoop. Actual reason is that scoops require less effort and they're constructed more sturdily so they won't bend unlike a normal dessert spoon.
When I worked at a dunkin donuts/baskin robbins joint I was trained to scoop ice cream in a specific way where we had to roll the scoop in the ice cream for like 3-5 seconds or something, so it was definitely a really packed scoop
Most ice cream places I've been to aren't that stingy with the scoops, they just keep rolling it a bit more until it’s a solid scoop. Actual reason is that scoops require less effort and they’re constructed more sturdily so they won’t bend unlike a normal dessert spoon.
Wondering if this reason is “applied”. It’s easier to scoop frozen hard surface with an ice cream scoop vs a pretty flat thin spoon. The applied reasoning feels like “this is how they take advantage of the customers”
I worked at an ice cream store and when I was training, my scoops had to weigh a certain amount. They also had to be tightly packed balls so they looked nice and didn’t fall out of cones. Our scoops had antifreeze in the handles so the ice cream wouldn’t stick as well
I also worked in an ice cream shop but since our manager was really laid back and chill we were kinda just allowed to put as much ice cream in a scoop as we wanted at least as long as it wasn’t completely unreasonable
I worked at Baskin Robbins when I was 14, as a volunteer for a school program. The first time I rolled a ball, it wasn’t tight. I still remember my first customer, when I handed her that hollow ball, she came back and yelled at me, called me names and bad mouthed the company on my behalf. I remember tears rolling down my face and still trying to smile to her and offering to remake it for her but she wouldn’t give me a chance. After that, they told me to make sure I roll a tight ball and how just one swipe usually won’t give you the solid sphere.
Sounds like not full training on your management’s part. When I started at Marble slab, I was trained that three swipes usually gave you a good solid scoop. And if it didn’t and a customer said something, we had to remind them that we had to leave rooms for the mix-ins
I’m sorry you had to deal with that monster of a woman! Who gets mad over an ice cream scoop???? She was probably just having a bad day and wanted to be a B
Ypu forgot to mention that the scoops that ice cream ships use have a liquid that conducts heat in the handles to keep the ice cream from sticking to the scoop. As someone who works on an ice cream shop, this feature makes things so much easier.
I also used to work at ice cream & coffee shop, but the hollow center is just not true, the shop I work for had a test to scoop exactly 3oz scoops that would be weighed. If you didn't come in withing a certain tolerance, you wasn't allow to scoop ice cream during rush hour.
My local ice cream place packs the ice cream into their scoops. Their scoops don’t have a hole in the middle and they’re proud of it. They also have cows and literally make it onsite. You can visit the cows also which I love.
Most ice cream scoop handles are usually made with a thermal conducting material on the inside of the handle so that it heats up the scoop part to get a cleaner less choppy scoop as you can see with a spoon
i was trying to look for this comment, but the thermal conducting material is actually the handle itself, it transfers the heat from your hand into the tip of the scoop
@@ULouOWit's called metal. A thermally conductive material is metal. Ice cream scoops, do contain a liquid inside the handle to aid thermal transfer, that's why its shaped that way.
@garethkalum8297 yes but he worded it as such that it would confuse bystanders into thinking that there is another material on the inside of the handle that takes all the thermal input, when in reality it's a combination of factors that cause it to be good at conducting heat
@@garethkalum8297 we had a scoop growing up that we thought got water trapped in it from doing dishes lolol. I distinctly remember shaking it and hearing/feeling the liquid move.
I worked at an ice cream store and we had to weigh the ice cream before giving it out to make sure everyone got the correct amount. Sometimes we overscooped and served as is but we had to make sure it hit the minimum amount so everyone got at least what they paid for
Biggest reason is probably the fact that the scoops are designed for scooping ice cream. They are filled with a liquid that transfers warmth from your hand to the scoop to make it easier to scoop up the cold ice cream. It is why sometimes you can feel/hear liquid inside an ice cream scoop. 🙂
Actually it's the metal alone that transfers the heat from your hand and melt the ice cream, *if* there is liquid there, it is just to hold the heat from your hand longer, it is not necessary for an ice cream scoop to work.
Yeah, I usually end up pushing the ice cream out with my thumb when I use a spoon, which is fine at home but not really what you want someone doing at an ice cream parlor.
As someone who worked at an ice cream shop sometimes depending on the scooper the heat from your hand or hot water you put it in will melt the ice cream a little bit making it easier to scoop ❤
@@A-ii5dp yup! I forgot to add that but that’s kinda what I meant when I said the heat from your hand can warm up the metal it can also warm up the water in side
As someone who works at a ice cream store, another advantage of scoops is the liquid in the handle. It conducts heat from your hand throughout the scooper making hard ice cream easier to.. well scoop.
My dad recently bought one of the nice scoops with the liquid in the handle for us to use at home. The only downside is that it can't be machine washed, but it is so worth it. I can never go back.
My ice cream store boss taught us to sell the ice cream by weight. It didn’t matter how big or small a scoop got rolled, small, medium, and large each had to weigh a certain amount of ounces. He’d occasionally pop quiz us by weighing a dish we’d scooped up before serving it to the customer.
When I worked at a icecream parlour, I ALWAYS gave more than what we should of and made sure that it was tightly packed down, my boss never knew how much I did for the people, I even gave away some of our chocolate to make some little ones happy, I saw their parents look like they were struggling, even if it was something small, the looks on their face were amazing
@Dreamerfire making customers happier could potentially make the store get more revenue by getting them to come back more often or just recommending the store to someone else
@Dreamerfireit did belong to him. He was a worker that worked there. Without him his boss would make no money. He made money for his boss. So on the moral front he did absolutely nothing wrong. Legally it's a different story obviously
another reason is because there is water in the handle and the water heats up in your hand and the warm water slightly melts the ice-cream so it Scoops more
@@babyboo608 it's almost certainly the same one that I use in this video 👉amzn.to/3HLzuHp Fun fact: my first video on this channel was about this scoop as well (ru-vid.com1XoKbQWgIto) 💙
@@theshoppingexpertI feel really conflicted in whether i should trash you for shamelessly whoring products in youtube comments, or just accept the L, and buy the scoop and congratulate you on some of the best shameless promotion I've ever seen..... Good job.... you earned it bud.
Worked with those scoops. 1) if you go back and roll again, you pack it tight. I always had to be on coworker's back about scooping a compact scoop! Clients are paying decent $ for it, don't give them half-assed scoops. 2) If you're gonna use it, you better keep them OUT! OF! THE HOT! WATER! They heat up really fast, and it was not fun reaching for it, thinking it'd just been put there, only to "burn" my hand. Also, if they're relatively new, they let out rust/coating like crazy when you leave them in the hot water for too long. 3) spoons give no ball shape, it's harder to scoop with hard ice cream, and the hold is flimsy at best, unlike the scooper. I've tried using them when we were washing the scoops and huh... a mess! Not as pretty 😅
I have never in my entire life used a spoon to scoop ice cream. My mom LOVES ice cream, so we have a super cold freezer and lots of scoops. There is always a clean one in the drawer and a spoon would bend since the ice cream is so cold.
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You can buy scoops for your house i have 5 because im obsessed with all kinds of spoons. Also if you pay attention most places you by scooped ice cream from will roll it multiple times to get it full and not hollow in the middle and then they even squish it when they put it in the cup or cone so theres more room for the next if you ordered more than one scoop.
There is something in the handle of the scoop and it uses you’re hand heat to make the scoop part warmer so it can get really cold ice cream to come out
Also scoopsare usually made of alumium and have thinner walls on the actual scoop compared to the spoon. This increased thermal conductivity means that even ice cream straight out of the deep freeze can be scooped easily.
In many gelato places in Italy, they use a spatula, not a scoop, which really piles up a whole lot of ice cream. But generally, the ice cream parlors with a scoop bunch them up pretty tightly, so nowadays, I don’t think they are airy in the middle.
I also saw somewhere that they are made from a different metal which better conducts the heat from your hand to the ice cream which makes it easier to scoop and why it's slightly more melted
@@Bilal_is_jokingyou are an idiot. Have u never learnt that metal is a good conductor of heat? And the reason your phone heats up is because all you do is use your phone and not actually fucking study
It's also more likely that a basic handle of a spoon eventually bends after continuous usage, making a larger scooper better. The handles also hurt less to scoop with
As someone who used to work at an ice cream shop, we use scoops because it is wayyyyy easier and yes more aesthetic but we also are trained to weigh our scoops so each customer gets roughly the same weight of ice cream soooo it doesn’t matter what the ice cream scoop ends up looking like. You can also request that your scoop gets weighed to ensure you get the proper Amt of ice cream (but we wouldn’t like you for asking lol)
I'm surprised he didn't mention that, but ice cream scoops are built with a liquid inside that heats up the scoop surface from your palm heat, letting you scoop frozen ice cream a lot easier
I’m a chef and I always am sure to make sure it’s compact with I/c. 3rd clever benefit btw is most scoops these days will absorb the heat from your hand and warm the scoop so the i/c doesn’t stick.
