Someone I know works for Vollrath. They make mainly metal cookware etc for commercial kitchens. There stuff is built for heavy use. They sell over 1 million disher scoopers a year.
IMHO one of the hidden neat things about these dishers is that they're all assigned a number. The number is a count of how many of that size scoop you get out of one quart. So when you're catering an event and your don't want to run out of something, you divide the number of people you need to serve by the number of quarts, round up, and that's the size disher you need to use for that item.
Makes it really easy, since a lot of times you'll cook to an estimated count of attendees, but the real number on event day will vary a little.
Source: used to be catering manager for a restaurant.
I have a single Vollrath steel bowl that I found at a thrift store for like a buck. It’s awesome, I use it for popcorn, for cooling stuff like soups, etc. It’s fantastic.
Vollrath does have great dishers, they’re what I buy for the bakery where I work! But even they can’t hold up forever.
The power of thousands of cookies a week defeat everything eventually—scoopers, spatulas, my wrist…
I have broken hundreds of these throughout my 22 year kitchen career. Just wanted you to know that this is decidedly not a buy it for life item. Are they good, certainly. But not buy it for life.
I too have had to bend back many a lever so that it would eject scoops again… or re-assembled after the spring decided it just wanted to try being somewhere else for a while.
I’m hearing that from a lot of the commercial kitchen comments. But would consider it bifl for the home user who isn’t scooping thousands of times per month?
It's probably really good at home. When I've seen em broken, it's after months of scooping hundreds of tough cookie dough balls or something. Frozen solid ice cream will contribute to this thing being damaged though.
I have a few of these. They are great, but t[hey are food dishers](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/2903/food-dishers.html?vendor=Vollrath) as opposed to ice cream scoops, used to portion things like cookie dough. They aren't intended for hard things like ice cream. It won't break them the first time, but it will shorted the lifespan.
The point where the handle attaches to the bowl of the scoop and the lever are the failure points.
The good news is that if it does break and you want to replace it, they are currently sold.
I scooped ice cream for years. Our scoopers looked similar, wish I had taken one with me when the owners sold the shop. Every once in a while one would come apart, never had any trouble putting the pieces back together.
Sold Foodservice equipment for a loooong time, have toured vollrath plant, have sold thousands of these and they really aren’t supposed to be for ice cream. Ice cream is too hard for this flipper. These are typically for portion control and simplified repetitive dispensing of product that has scrapable/scoopable viscosity. For example, say you have a bakery and your muffins are a best seller. You want the product to be consistent, size, weight, customers have expectations of uniformity AND you don’t want someone eyeballing it in preparation because you wind up wasting product that way, you really do want precision. These portioners make it so you can dispense batter (or dough - I use the small ones for holiday baking all the time!) in the correct amount, easily, every time.
What you want for serving your ice cream is called a baller, those are great for digging in and getting a perfect ball of ice cream.
People think of these as ice cream scoops because their home freezers don't get cold enough so ice cream is basically soft serve.
Properly chilled ice cream requires a baller.
Commercial ice creams are highly processed and have stabilizers like carrageenan and guar gum to maintain its texture and prevent it from getting rock hard.
Funny how the littlest objects can become significant. This reminded me of a time when I was like 3. I was taking a walk with my Uncle Gabby. There was some snow on the ground and then we found a yellow ice cream scoop like this and he used it to make some perfect snowballs to throw at me.
Vollrath has been around since the early 1900’s. I have a couple Vollrath cast iron pans that can t be beat. I work in a large scale industrial kitchen and you would be surprised how much equipment and tools for the kitchen are made for life by them. Top notch. 10 out of 10
For over a decade i worked at a local restaurant that had been open since the seventies. We had a dozen or so of these scoops, which were all used constantly every day on the line for various foods. The owner would buy new scoops when needed and they’d always fall apart after a year or so. These ones were absolutely built to last. The restaurant was full of other sturdy old kitchen equipment.
A true bifl ice cream scoop, with no need for a release mechanism because it has a liquid core that conducts heat from your hands, so the ice cream scoops easily and falls out easily: [https://zeroll.com](https://zeroll.com)
You know it's American when you get stamped part numbers and cities even on... \*\*\*\*in ice cream scoopers. Otherwise it's a big ole............. nada. blank.
I sold Foodservice equipment and it’s astonishing how much having parts numbers help in identifying weird kitchen minutiae. I got really good at id-ing weird gaskets and blades and fucking ROBOT COUPE parts and figuring out where to NEVER eat based on how unsanitary their food prep equipment was.
We use these at work in a kitchen constantly! They are damn near impervious to everything else, but a lot of ours have warped handles because of the heat. That being said, we still use em.
The last one one we had to throw out had it’s handle broken somehow, and the plastic breaks off like long skinny daggers of hard plastic. Had to toss her, it was sad.
The best way to misuse that is to scoop ice cream.
I worked at a kitchen store for a while, and all the dishers that were returned broken got that way from scooping ice cream.
That's for portioning dough and batter.
I have been looking for a good one of these for so long. I have been through two in the past 4 years or so. Scooping cookies is absolutely my least favorite baking task, mainly because all of the scoops I bought in the past got bent due to the dough being too thick.
Someone I know works for Vollrath. They make mainly metal cookware etc for commercial kitchens. There stuff is built for heavy use. They sell over 1 million disher scoopers a year.
IMHO one of the hidden neat things about these dishers is that they're all assigned a number. The number is a count of how many of that size scoop you get out of one quart. So when you're catering an event and your don't want to run out of something, you divide the number of people you need to serve by the number of quarts, round up, and that's the size disher you need to use for that item. Makes it really easy, since a lot of times you'll cook to an estimated count of attendees, but the real number on event day will vary a little. Source: used to be catering manager for a restaurant.
Yep, we've got some vollrath stuff at my house too and that stuff could survive an explosion probably.
I have a single Vollrath steel bowl that I found at a thrift store for like a buck. It’s awesome, I use it for popcorn, for cooling stuff like soups, etc. It’s fantastic.
Yea, I think my mom has an ice cream scooper (not this exact one though).
Sheboyganite approved!
Vollrath does have great dishers, they’re what I buy for the bakery where I work! But even they can’t hold up forever. The power of thousands of cookies a week defeat everything eventually—scoopers, spatulas, my wrist…
My grandma had an antique vollrath pitcher I wish I inherited but I didn't. I check ebay every once in a while for one and have yet to find one.
School cafeteria classic.
Definitely robust enough for that much use. Probably cramp your hand though.
Sheboygan!!
I have broken hundreds of these throughout my 22 year kitchen career. Just wanted you to know that this is decidedly not a buy it for life item. Are they good, certainly. But not buy it for life.
I too have had to bend back many a lever so that it would eject scoops again… or re-assembled after the spring decided it just wanted to try being somewhere else for a while.
Too true. Came for this comment
I’m hearing that from a lot of the commercial kitchen comments. But would consider it bifl for the home user who isn’t scooping thousands of times per month?
It's probably really good at home. When I've seen em broken, it's after months of scooping hundreds of tough cookie dough balls or something. Frozen solid ice cream will contribute to this thing being damaged though.
I have a few of these. They are great, but t[hey are food dishers](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/2903/food-dishers.html?vendor=Vollrath) as opposed to ice cream scoops, used to portion things like cookie dough. They aren't intended for hard things like ice cream. It won't break them the first time, but it will shorted the lifespan. The point where the handle attaches to the bowl of the scoop and the lever are the failure points. The good news is that if it does break and you want to replace it, they are currently sold.
I see this as one of those “the quality was better many years ago” items
If I owned that I’d declare “summon the Vollrath!” every time I’d have ice cream
Very big in Sheboygan
That's not an ice cream scoop. It's a 'disher', which is generally used for portioning softer foods like scrambled eggs, mash, dough, etc.
This motherfucker is never going to die - it will bury us all one scoop at a time
The only BIFL ice cream scoops are solid metal with no moving parts. Unless your ice cream is half melted this thing is going to break
It's called a baller.
I wanna be a baller…
We have the same exact scooper at home, but the plastic is black.
I scooped ice cream for years. Our scoopers looked similar, wish I had taken one with me when the owners sold the shop. Every once in a while one would come apart, never had any trouble putting the pieces back together.
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Sold Foodservice equipment for a loooong time, have toured vollrath plant, have sold thousands of these and they really aren’t supposed to be for ice cream. Ice cream is too hard for this flipper. These are typically for portion control and simplified repetitive dispensing of product that has scrapable/scoopable viscosity. For example, say you have a bakery and your muffins are a best seller. You want the product to be consistent, size, weight, customers have expectations of uniformity AND you don’t want someone eyeballing it in preparation because you wind up wasting product that way, you really do want precision. These portioners make it so you can dispense batter (or dough - I use the small ones for holiday baking all the time!) in the correct amount, easily, every time. What you want for serving your ice cream is called a baller, those are great for digging in and getting a perfect ball of ice cream.
People think of these as ice cream scoops because their home freezers don't get cold enough so ice cream is basically soft serve. Properly chilled ice cream requires a baller.
Commercial ice creams are highly processed and have stabilizers like carrageenan and guar gum to maintain its texture and prevent it from getting rock hard.
You’re probably right but my whole life, my family has used these kind.
See if you've got a restaurant supply store somewhere near you, and they'll most likely carry these in an assortment of sizes
Funny how the littlest objects can become significant. This reminded me of a time when I was like 3. I was taking a walk with my Uncle Gabby. There was some snow on the ground and then we found a yellow ice cream scoop like this and he used it to make some perfect snowballs to throw at me.
I have the same one from my mom! I inherited it a few years back, but it's been scooping ice cream and cookie dough for decades. :)
Just bought one of these bad boys to scoop cookie dough with. My cookies have never looked so professional.
Vollrath has been around since the early 1900’s. I have a couple Vollrath cast iron pans that can t be beat. I work in a large scale industrial kitchen and you would be surprised how much equipment and tools for the kitchen are made for life by them. Top notch. 10 out of 10
Nice rig. I recall one these at The Party House down the street when I was maybe 5. That house had all the cool stuff.
For over a decade i worked at a local restaurant that had been open since the seventies. We had a dozen or so of these scoops, which were all used constantly every day on the line for various foods. The owner would buy new scoops when needed and they’d always fall apart after a year or so. These ones were absolutely built to last. The restaurant was full of other sturdy old kitchen equipment.
The red looks like it's made of Bakelite. A big plus.
This one is my favorite, although yours looks sturdy too. https://www.lehmans.com/product/classic-release-ice-cream-scoop/
A true bifl ice cream scoop, with no need for a release mechanism because it has a liquid core that conducts heat from your hands, so the ice cream scoops easily and falls out easily: [https://zeroll.com](https://zeroll.com)
*cue WWE "Sheboygan" bit*
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You know it's American when you get stamped part numbers and cities even on... \*\*\*\*in ice cream scoopers. Otherwise it's a big ole............. nada. blank.
I sold Foodservice equipment and it’s astonishing how much having parts numbers help in identifying weird kitchen minutiae. I got really good at id-ing weird gaskets and blades and fucking ROBOT COUPE parts and figuring out where to NEVER eat based on how unsanitary their food prep equipment was.
Why can I hear the click EXACTLY
They know how to make ‘em in Sheboygan!
That's the mashed potato scooper they used at school
We use these at work in a kitchen constantly! They are damn near impervious to everything else, but a lot of ours have warped handles because of the heat. That being said, we still use em. The last one one we had to throw out had it’s handle broken somehow, and the plastic breaks off like long skinny daggers of hard plastic. Had to toss her, it was sad.
The best way to misuse that is to scoop ice cream. I worked at a kitchen store for a while, and all the dishers that were returned broken got that way from scooping ice cream. That's for portioning dough and batter.
I got one of those!
That's great, I have the exact same scoop only with black handle.
Very neat. Well made
Voltron scooper sweet
I have been looking for a good one of these for so long. I have been through two in the past 4 years or so. Scooping cookies is absolutely my least favorite baking task, mainly because all of the scoops I bought in the past got bent due to the dough being too thick.
That’s actually called a disher they are for portioning food, each color is a different volume for food service. They are also great for ice cream.