I have been told that my disher-style ice cream scoop is "elitist."

[eyesroll]

(The disher style is the one with the lever and the mechanism that pushes out whatever's in the scoop.)

Specifically, the "ice cream shovel" is the acceptable type. I do not know whether this person was talking about an actual shovel (in which case I've seen them as part of a gift set with a bucket for $22 on ebay), or a regular ice cream scoop without the lever or mechanism.

I used it today to scoop cupcake batter into the tins. It was a lot neater and more even than a spoon or spatula would have been. I also use it for pancake batter, cookie dough, and, yes, ice cream. I'm not anal about portion control or uniform pancakes, but if I don't have to clean up 10000 drips all over the place, all the better.

I'm not exactly sure what makes a device purchased for $7 at a restaurant supply store (open to the public) "elitist." Anyone care to enlighten me?

[triguy46]

1. Whatever gets it out of the container and into the bowl and then mouth....

is the most appropriate tool for the proletariat. Solidarity forever!

[AlCzervik]

2. i use a melon baller when i make cookies, but i have one of those ice cream scoops

you're talking about, i have 3 different kinds, i never thought of them as fancy pantists.

[mainegreen]

3. Comrade, is that a standard issue ice cream scoop, made with love by the worker?

Or was it made by capitalistic pig dogs on the back of the masses?

[Solon]

4. No clue, but I wonder how'd they feel about my heated ice cream scoop...

Uses a single C battery, click it on, and the ice cream is supposed to fall out. Doesn't work that well though. I had another scoop that had a bar that, when you pushed on a lever, scraped the ice cream off of the back of the scoop.

[IzaSparrow]

5. anything that is more than necessary could be seen as

a show of superiority.

Maybe your friend (ex-friend) thinks a common spoon is all you need.

I suppose if he/she are an outright utilitarianist he/she would recommend a spork http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/8ace/

[eyesroll]

7. Heh...

I will not indicate how I know this person but anyone who knows me and her will not be surprised.

[hippywife]

9. Spork?

:rofl:

[IzaSparrow]

18. hahah

that's funny!

[Tektonik]

6. Unless she's using a large table/serving spoon

that also has 100 different uses, she should shut up.

BTW just tell her if it's still considered elitist if you could effectively use it as a weapon against her. :P

[NV Whino]

8. I have one that has antifreeze in the handle

Totally sealed, of course. It's great... and second only to your "elitist" sometimes known as "classic" ice cream scoop.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Jeez, what would he/she say about my Pampered Chef garlic press?

:scared:

[yellowdogintexas]

11. or my Pampered Chef handy chopper, or the miniature version of the OP's ice cream scoop

which I use to make cookies, fill mini-muffin cups and other small jobs .

Anyone who is concerned over an ice cream scoop of any type being eliteist has way too much time on their hands and needs to come weed my garden

[Gormy Cuss]

16. "Pampered Chef" -'nuf said.

Nice garlic press, elitist.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Got it off EBay, Hitler.

But, I do love their stuff. :rofl:

[Jamastiene]

12. Nah, yer s'pposed ta dig the ice cream out with a

tool made of flint rock tied to a young sapling with a vine. Otherwise, you are just an elitist rich person laughing a the poor.

Look at you....laughing at the poor while you scoop your ice cream out with that fan-cy rich tool that cost more than the cardboard box the rest of us out here in "real" America live in. You pansy elitist you.
















:P

:rofl:


OMG, I've heard it all now.

[QMPMom]

13. Elitist?? Gee, I have several of those in varying sizes, from

about half an inch across to 2 1/2 inchces across. I think I have five in total. I use them for lots of things, the least of which is ice cream.

Had no idea I was elitist! Finally I made it, and all because of ice cream scoops! WooHoo!

:party:

[Connonym]

14. I always thought you were a snob :-P

I actually have a couple different sizes of those so I must be uber elite. And shhh, don't tell anyone but I don't even eat ice cream so mine are just for baking. We should start an elite liberal cooking group :silly:

[mikeytherat]

15. It's a metal dealie used to dig food. Unless your servants are using

your platinum-plated, diamond-encrusted, heated (and cooled), ice-cream scoop, it is rather hard for a large spoon with a lever to be elitist.

Honestly, whoever thinks that must think my can opener makes me the snobbiest snob ever:


mikey_the_rat