With a history that goes all the way back to 1935, the original Zeroll Ice Cream Scoop is an ingenious and timeless tool for scooping frozen treats, borne from a desire to make the process easier for anyone who used it:

Sherman Kelly, while vacationing in West Palm Beach, Florida, observed a young woman dipping ice cream. Noticing the blisters on her hand from the constant use of the disher in the hard ice cream, he thought to himself, there must be a better way to serve ice cream.

What makes this iconic scoop so clever is the heat-conductive liquid sealed within its handle, which draws on the natural warmth of your hand so that it glides more readily through even frozen-solid ice cream, and releases it into your bowl just as easily. I find that holding the handle tightly for a few seconds before use is key.

The generous size of the scoop itself tends to result in large, round balls of ice cream that look straight out of an ice cream parlor, and the unit as a whole has this heavy and solid construction that feels professional. You just have to keep in mind that it must never be put in the dishwasher or that fluid in the handle will be ruined or even leak out. This is hand-wash only.

The Zeroll ice cream scoop comes in a bunch of sizes that range from about $22–$28, each with a color-coded end cap for easy recognition:

• Size 10 — 4 ounce (brown cap)
• Size 12 — 3 ounce (blue cap)
• Size 16 — 2.5 ounce (green cap)
• Size 20 — 2 ounce (gold cap)
• Size 24 — 1.5 ounce (silver cap)
• Size 30 — 1 ounce (red cap)