I used to hack into hard pints of strawberry and cookies ‘n’ cream with a spoon, watching it bend backwards against the ice cream’s dense, irregular terrain. As regularly as I ate ice cream, you’d think I had been caught by surprise each time. Then, years before I worked at Wirecutter, I read our glowing review crediting the Zeroll 1020 Original Ice Cream Scoop with the most struggle-free scoop.
When people ask me if I have a favorite Wirecutter pick, this is what I say. The Zeroll scoop is simple, nostalgic, beautiful, and—like coffee tools for coffee rituals, or cocktail tools for cocktails—it makes an at-home pleasure more pleasurable. It was our pick for best ice cream scoop in 2013, and it’s still the pick. It probably always will be.
