TOCOKEID Electric Heated Ice Cream Scoop with Smart LED Display & Safety Lock, Rechargeable

Worth every dime. The scoop is rechargeable (comes with charger) and has 2 settings. Setting 1 is for softer ice cream and setting 2 is for hard ice cream. It cleans up easy and the best part is it has a safety switch that needs to be turned on before you can power up scoop. So it helps to prevent accidentally turning it on. Scoops easy and quick.

Gee, what a shame to have to scoop up a bowl of ice cream to try out a product. We’ll just have to make the sacrifice for you. Yes, we have a perfectly good ice cream scooper. We got this because we don’t have a heating scooper! Why not? The scooper comes packaged in a retail-ready box that looks like it would fly off a Walmart shelf. Out of the box, we notice how lightweight it is. Naturally, the handle housing is plastic. But the scooper, which the destructions refer to as the metal part, doesn’t look or feel metal. We’d swear that it’s plastic, yet it heats up? First though, it charges easily enough. The first charge took a few hours, but it was ready by dessert time. It comes with yet another USB cord for us to keep track of. We’re going to need a labeling system for all these gadget cords. Anyway, the destructions infer that it’s supposed to hold a full charge in the drawer for up to 3 months, so we shouldn’t have to charge it every time we want to use it. Only time will tell if that’s true and how long the scooper will last. But for now, the scooper was easy to use. Turn it on. Choose a heat setting. Scoop away! Today’s ice cream was pretty hard. We used the low setting. The ice cream didn’t melt, and the warm scooper did roll it out of the carton pretty easily. Next time we’ll try High and see if it cuts like butter. And no, you’re not supposed to touch the metal part, but we gave it a quick poke and Low was about as warm as a metal scooper run under hot water. High was quite hot, though. After use, turn it off to cool. We just rinsed the scoop the same as our usual one (which also doesn’t go in the dishwasher) and we were done like any other ice cream night. Our overall impression is that this scooper is just as easy to use as a traditional scooper, save for the added task of thinking about charging it. It did feel weird scooping with a light plastic handle, though. Maybe we’re just used to a heftier handle that’s designed to take the leverage, whereas the heat does the work on this one. The shape of the scoop feels a bit more like scooping with a paddle, but it does okay to form an ice cream ball. As self-appointed ice cream gurus, we’ve had years of practice perfecting the perfect scoop to stack on a cone. We’d say this new scooper passes muster. THE CONS: 1. The on/off switch is microscopic. We understand that it’s buried under the rubber plug for protection, but for a switch that needs to be used each time, it should be larger and easier to feel. 2. We’re concerned that the destructions state up front that a fuse can blow and render it useless. We hope not. 3. The regular price is way too steep for an ice cream scooper. Novelty or not, no kitchen tool is worth a Grant. If it’s on sale, then great. You judge the value. It’s neat to have, but only at the right price. (Sorry if the formatting doesn’t recognize our paragraphs.)