Customer Reviews

Deni 5111 Electric Ice-Cream Scoop with Nonstick Surface

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we were at a friends house one night and were struggling to scoop out

some really frozen ice cream.my husband said i wonder if theres an eletric

ice cream scooper out there. if not ill invent one. so i looked online and found this one and bought 2, one for me and one for a friend.

we both love it and use it all the time. thanks again

cb- greenlawn ny

this handy product eliminates the work of scooping hard ice cream or waiting for it to soften enough to easily scoop.Only problem is if there is a power failure. Of course if the power failure lasts long enough the ice cream will be plenty soft !!! The construction appears to be of good quality and should last a long time. We are pleased with this purchase.

THis is a great way to get a serving of hard ice cream without wrenching one's wrist!! My mom gives them as gifts to her friends.

I can't praise this scooper enough. My organization was having a dinner and for desert we had ice cream and cookies. We had to scoop ice cream for 87 people. It worked like a charm. I am now ordering my second one.

I keep my ice cream very cold and this scoop does not seem to cut through it "like butter". It would have been nice if the head could be removed from the rest of the scoop so sanitizing would be a bit easier.

Very pleased with the performance of this product. Makes serving ice cream a simple task.

This item works great. It takes a little time for it to heat up.

If it hurts your hand to push hard into ice creme, like if you have arthritis, this will make it easier.

But... it barely gets hot.

It works about the same as heating up a metal ice cream scoop under the hot water spout in the sink. It does beat a plastic ice creme scoop heated up by hot water.

Overall it is not up to the job it is made for..

My wife has controlled Rheumatoid Arthritis and getting ice cream out of the container used to mean Micro Wave the ice cream so she could get it out with a spoon. You plug in this tool and in a moment or two it is warm enough to make the effort easier. It is not a hot knife, but it is hot enough to make the scooping better. It was one of her favorite Christmas gifts of 2010.

Are you like me? Do you know darn well that you'll be serving ice cream after dinner but never seem to remove the ice cream from your freezer to that it can thaw to a reasonable scoopability? And do you then break out a hammer and chisel and begin to hack away at rock hard ice cream to the amusement of your friends as bits of mint chocolate chip fly about the kitchen as you feebiliy attempt to extricate enough ice cream for a single serving? Actually, I've never done that. What I do is just serve the cookies and bag the whole "let's have ice cream" altogether, but that's not important right now.

Apparently, over frozen ice cream is a real problem these days. There are throngs of people who forget to thaw the ice cream, and in a pinch, they need to scoop that stuff fast, else the party shall be in ruin. Or something like that.

So, enter this fun and exciting product that consists of a mildly heated scooper that promises to dig through the rock solid ice cream like a warm knife through butter. If only, my friend, if only.

First, it's big. Yes, my friend, you can wield this item like a barbarian with a heavy club as you attack your half gallon ice cream container. I mean, this thing is big. If you're under five foot four, you're better off hacking at the ice cream with a two handed broad sword. Ok, it's not THAT big, but believe me now when I tell you that small hands will find this scoop unwieldy.

Second, the heating element in this takes about as long to reach optimum temperature as it would take you to actually hand churn the ice cream. Understand that the goal of the product is not to actually get hot. That would melt the ice cream into a soupy mess. The goal isn't even to get warm, that would be somewhat useful. No, the goal is to get amusingly tepid to the point that if you let it heat up inside your hand, you won't be exactly sure if the item heated up on its own or whether your hands did all the warming.

Third, in the time that it takes for the item to heat up to optimum temperature your ice cream, which you should have taken from the freezer by now, is already in the process of thawing. So, lucky you, eventually you have a mildly slightly tepid scooper working at ice cream that is now reasonably thawed. Who is to say it actually did anything.

So, I tried it on ice cream straight from the freezer and guess what....it still took a Herculean effort to actually scoop ice cream. Hammer and Chisel plus one, tepid ice cream scoop, zero.

The scoops that are on the market that actually transfer your hand heat into the scoop are as effective, if not more so, because they can actually be held in your hand. This thing is just too big.

And once the ice cream is actually no longer hard frozen, the next problem you have is that the mildly tepid device then overperforms so that you end up with scoops that have soupy outsides. By this point, just use a regular scoop.

So, upwards of $50 for something that is too large, ineffective, and ultimately not so very useful is too much to spend on something that then takes up too much space in a drawer or cabinet.

Frankly, you're better off using a kitchen timer to ding when it's time for you to take the ice cream out of the freezer so it can thaw. Better yet, save the money on the timer and tie a strink to your finger as a reminder.

Skip this product. Not worth it.

User Update: I realize that there are those who say that their aged mother or father really likes this item because they have arthritis or are too weak to scoop the ice cream. It still takes forever and a day to heat up and ultimately, waiting for the thaw achieves the same thing and is one less large item to clutter up mom or dad's drawer. But, to each his own.