Nothing can interfere more with a late night ice cream craving than hard ice cream. We’ve all been there. You open the freezer, take a few seconds to ponder your frosty options, grab a spoon, a bowl and a scoop and dig in. But instead of dipping effortlessly into the soon-to-be-dessert, your scoop meets what appears to be something resembling concrete.
We’re never sure exactly why this happens, especially since, at other times, your ice cream emerges from the freezer soft as a cloud, but it happens (and usually at the worst possible times). But now there’s a solution: the Deni 5111 electric ice cream scoop! According to Amazon.com, where this brilliant invention sells for $18.88, the electric scoop “cuts through the hardest ice cream with no effort” and “heats up in minutes and retains its temperature scoop after scoop.”
Plus, it looks kind of cool (that’s it on the right). One comment from all the comments left on the blog this week will be chosen at random to win this life-saver.
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If you’ve got a technical question about the ice cream making process or some other inquiry about the nuances of America’s favorite treat, chances are Ernie has the answer. He might not be able to answer all questions, but he’ll try his best and some may be featured on the Ice Cream Journal.
I’m not sure about this prize, I like this blog, I like this ice cream and I like most of the things about turkey hill, but an electric ice cream scoop – I’m just not sure about this
wow, this would be great at partys
Given the summer heat, this would be very cool (pun intended) to use!
Wow what a good idea, being I have your ice cream every night it sure would come in handy. I would take the ice cream and mic. it for 12 seconds till it softens.
electrifying
This would be so handy, because my arthritis makes scooping ice cream very difficult.
I love this scooper and my favorite ice cream is Turkey Hill and if I won this today it would make my birthday complete!
Thanks for the chance!
What a great gadget!!! Chocolate Chip Mint, you & I have a date tonight!!!!
Just what I need…something to help me eat even more ice cream! No, really! It’s just what I need to help me eat even more delicious Turkey Hill.
Let’s get scooping!
I will love to get it!! My husband love me, to serve him Turkey Hill Ice Cream ( It is the only brand Ice Cream we buy in our local Turkey Hill Store in Pine Grove. We love that there is always fresh) Sometimes it is hard and an electric scoop will be awesome!
This would be perfect for me and my family considering we don’t have an ice cream scoop, we just use a soup sppon. For no reason other than I don’t think about buying one while I’m out, but I think about it everytime we eat ice cream!
Awesome! I hate when I can’t scoop the ice cream bc it’s too hard!
Looks like an interesting scoop.
Wow! This would be great for birthday parties!
interesting, would like to try it!
That would definitely come in handy!
It would make my late-night TH fridge raids positively electric!
Hmm, at least the scoops would be somewhat even, which is nice if you’re serving ice cream for dessert at a gathering……….
I have bent many a spoon because I misplaced the scoop. An electric scoop sounds like a great idea.
Nice Nice Baby …
This would be better than having to nuke my Chunky Peanut Butter or Praline Pecan ice cream for 10 seconds. Now I won’t worry about glowing in the dark.
A little strange to have electricity and Liquid together.
But OK
I would love to have an electric ice cream scoop especially that I have arthritis in my hands. I have to put the ice cream in the microwave for a few seconds so I can scoop it out with a soup spoon. I just love Turkey Hill ice cream and always buy it.
I’d love it!
So cool! I know my son would love to use this scooper everytime he dishes out ice cream, which is pretty much every night!
I hate when the ice cream is sooo hard you can’t scoop it! This little gizzmo sounds great!
Good things take time and effort ! This would certainly help with both. (Using this gadget would be as addictive as savoring the Turkey Hill ice cream that it scooped into my bowl.)
There have been times when I’ve had to let my TH sit for a few mins. before scooping. Waiting can be agony. This scoop would be great!
Interesting !!!!!
I would burn it out!! Nice gadget but I would probably forget it’s electric and throw it in the dishwasher. (Brain freeze from eating TH ice cream to fast)
Wow!! I would love to have one because then when I over fill my bowl with Turkey Hill Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup ice cream, I can blame it on the scooper. ( Opps! I couldn’t get to stop scooping.)
It’s my dream scoop!!! Oh please let me win this one!!!
Glad to know it isn’t just my freezer when the ice cream is hard one time and soft the next! An electric scoop sounds awesome. I sometimes have to have my husband dish up the ice cream because it is too hard for me or microwave it for a few seconds to soften it enough to scoop. Sure would be nice to have a scoop like this. If I don’t win, I just might have to put it on my “Christmas Wish List”!
What a clever idea! It’s a lot better than a regular scoop. This looks easier on your wrist.
It would stop me from having to pik up ice cream from the floor.
When you are scooping out of a hard brick and then it slips,
OOPS allover the floor.
What a novel idea! The winner can scoop out his/her ice cream immediately, instead of leaving the box on the counter for a minute or so before scooping out ice cream.
You’ll feel much chipper when you dip
the Turkey Hill ice cream with a heated dipper!!
i have neer won any thing that is so nice
I would love to win an electric ice cream scoop!
just love turkey hill butter pecan ice cream
yeehaaa!!
with electric scoop i could get my ice cream faster
Now this is one very COOL gadget for Turkey Hill ice cream
hmm.. this would be great for that very hard ice cream .. plus the kids would love the idea of scooping thier own ice cream!! what a fun and novel idea!!
One instance where I think this product would help is when trying to scoop the ice cream with a regular scooper or a spoon when it’s really frozen and after dipping the scoop/sppon into the ice cream and trying to dish it out, the ice cream ends up flying across the table!
It could be very useful for scooping chocolate ice creams.
Finally! Someone figured out how to help all of us impatient ice cream eaters not to bend any more spoons! Thank you!
I love Turkey Hill ice cream – my favorite way to eat it – with an ice cream cone. When summertime comes and I turn the temperature down on my refrigerator, the ice cream becomes hard as a rock making it impossible to scoop and make a nice neat ice cream cone. How great this would be to not only have great tasting ice cream and look neat and more appealing using this ice cream scoop.
Ellie
If it made scoops like the ones at the top of this page, it would be worth its weight in gold! How do you do that?????
Great ice cream love it electric ice scoop sounds interesting
Love love your ice cream…. electric ice cream scoop sounds interesting
WOW! This is perfect for the young, old, and physically challenged. They can get their ice cream by themselves and get as much as they want of the best ice cream on earth – Turkey Hill!
An electric ice cream scoop… I really could have used this when I used to work in that ice cream shoppe back in high school. If it helps me eat Turkey Hill ice cream faster, it sounds like a joy!
At last, an ice cream scoop from outer space! Just what we need in the middle of the night, Does it light up too?
WELL, this week we wouldn’t have needed the electric ice cream scoop because our refrigerator DIED!!!!! I opened the freezer to get my TH Double Dunker & my husband’s TH Mint Chocolate Chip out for an evening snack & there it was, all melted in the bottom of the freezer!!! Needless to say, we weren’t very happy! We had to quickly take the rest of our food to my sister’s to her freezer (The temperature was 24 degrees ~ just cold enough for the food, but NOT for the ice cream!) THEN, the rest of the refrigerator died. We went shopping for a new refrigerator right away!!! NOW, we’re back in business, thank goodness!!!
I need this! My family teases that there is not one un-bent spoon in my house.
Hi this would be good for my sore hands.I can scoop it then I will not bend my spoons any more.Great idea.
Sounds great to me! Just the thing to delete the grumbling when scooping out hard ice cream….
hope your fridge wasnt a GE our did that thank got i had ate my turkey hill ice cream love the scoop.don’t like GE anymore
LWould love to try scooping my favorite Turkey Hill Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream with this nifty gadget
Cool! Technology comes to scooping ice cream too!! Sweet! Get that ice cream into my bowl faster!
I can do very well with just the T.H carton and a spoon, but that is a coooool item!
I think this would be a geat product I live with 90 year old woman and someone who is handicapped. When they want ice cream they have to wait till I come home as niether of them is strong enough to get any from the ice cream ROCK that is what is in the ice cream container. We buy Turkey Hill often but end up throwing it out as I get home from work too late for them to have ice cream
Now if it could also give a nice shock to the person who I DIDN’T want to scoop my Turkey Hill ice cream… THAT would be an electric scoop!
Thats all our grandchildren do is eat
ice cream. I would love to try this. Your
never to old for no things.
I wonder how many batteries the scoop takes to run and the size of battery ? It would be great if you could put rechargable batteries in it , because you would never have to worry about the scoop not being ready to do it’s job on TH ice cream !
I am having a bad day. This would help make me feel better.
OK, I’d love to add this to my 4 other scoops. If my TH is so solid, I too microwave it for 10-12 seconds. Thanks for the chance to win one.
I just usually use a spoon (and bend it in the process) but my wife always uses a scooper and would love to own this one!
wow, now I have the scoop on the scoop
I would like to have one especially when it gets akward with arthritis and your wrists don’t ahve the strength they once did
ANOTHER KITCHEN GADGET EVERYONE SHOULD OWN!
cool item! i don’t care if i win it, or not… would rather win 100 gallons of Turkey Hill ice cream!
I have arthritis and this would be a great help!
Come on Ernie, do we need another gadget that requires batteries or has to constantly be recharged. If my TH is too hard I just place it in the microwave for 15 seconds but prefer to dig into the rock making the savory flavor more enjoyable as it slowly melt on my taste buds. I agree with Robin above but would settle for 5 gallons.
Now, this brings reality to the statement, “Scoop this!!”
I’d kinda miss the art of dipping it
Sounds good on paper, but how warm does it actually get? Won’t it melt the ice cream too much? Nothing worse than ice cream soup.
I could use a fancy new-fangled ‘lectric scooper for my icy cream!
An electric ice cream scoop would make scooping ice cream or frozen yogurt a lot easier.
A new toy! What fun.
sure would help to thaw the winter blues
With yet another great invention to start off with, as it regards to what else the future may hold for us. Some people are afraid of the thought that change will wash away the old ways of operation or that flying cars will come faster than expected. I say, turkey hill is there helping us cross over into that future we can taste coming!
Just the thing we need at our Senior center/ Our old (?) hands ain’t like they used to be.
Wow what a great prize, my boss could use this for the ice cream socials he gives us, sure would make it easier to scoop and he wouldn’t be hurting his hand trying to scoop hard ice cream
Somehow being desperate for your Turkey Hill Ice Cream will make us try anything to get the scoop!!!! Now will the scoop be the answer or will prior planning and patience of taking your favorite flavor out 5 minutes ahead allow you to save the money for the scooper and buy more Turkey Hill?
This would help my sore hand
My family has been having Turkey Hill yummy flavors every evening as our treat. We have had various ice cream scoops and none of them work, so we have been using a tablespoon for a long time. This scoop sounds awesome. I would love to have one for my birthday on the 19th.
I would like to have one to go with my other big boy toys!
my son would go crazy for this. he refuses to scoop ice cream without a scoop. i will grab a spoon he refuses. maybe we could finally find something we both would use.
I would like to have one to go with my other “big boy” toys!
Stop The Presses!!!!! This is the Scoop of the Century !!!!
Scoop dee doo. A deluxe scoop for a deluxe ice cream – go Turkey Hill.
An electric scoop for electrifying Turkey Hill flavors.
Totally Awsome! I am always looking for new gagets to impress my friends. Whenever I get something so Unique as this my family & friends ask where I got it . My responce is “at the nonya store” None ya buisness. It’s a family/ friend joke! this looks so convient & usefull I would LOVE to have one!
Awesome…great gadget for this hot summer in New Jersey!
If it works, it is just what my husband needs, as he eats ice cream 7 days a week and often cannot wait till the ice cream is soft enough. They finally started selling Turkey HIll locally.
It make a great addition to kitchen
This product would be handy for scooping hard ice cream,and would definitely be so now, as it is hot and humid where I reside!
Would love to have this. I, too, have arthritis in my hands. My husband has MS, so it is difficult for him to scoop TH ice cream to help me. This would be a blessing. Would love to win this!!!!!!!
We would love to dish our Turkey Hill ice cream with this heated scoop.
I think this would work great for someone with arm weakness.
as much Turkey Hill ice cream we go thru the batteries would have to be heavy duty but what a great idea no more excuses for not serving ice cream
Such a great prize and would be perfect to scoop up some Turkey Hill ice cream on a hot summer day.
I’d like to try this gadget…Is it battery operated or REALLT ELECTRIC?
I’ve never heard of a scoop like this. It’s a neat idea.
Great idea with a great product…..
No more manual labor. Amazing! I can scoop and eat. No more waiting to it thaws a bit and begins to become a milkshake. Loving it!
that’s the cool way to scoop!!!
This is one cool gadget!
A must have, REALLY!!!
I would love to win this prize!!!
This electric scoop is neat. I just had a hard time getting the ice cream out of the container a little bit ago.
This electric scoop is neat! I just had a hard time getting the ice cream out of the container a little bit ago.
Don’t you just hate it when your scooping out your ice cream and it goes flying across the counter?? Wow, with this handy gadget no more “tossed” ice cream. Would love to try it out on my next 1/2 gal of Turkey Hill.
this house loves turkey hill from there gas to there sodas & most there yummy ice cream dont matter the flavor we love it all & buy every flavor they got. but this scooper would make server ing it way easier what a great idea.
This ice cream scoop would be a life saver when I scoop 50 or more ice cream cones filled with Turkey Hill Vanilla & Chocolate ice cream.Wonderful invention.
Electric! I worked in an ice cream shop when I was a teen. What a joy an electric scooper would have been and what fun now. Enter me to win
Let me get this straight. The electric heats the spoon and then the warmed spoon softens the ice cream as you manually scoop the ice cream out. Why call it an electric spoon which gives it the connotation that it actually does the scooping by itself electrically. It should just have been called a heated ice cream scoop. It runs on batteries I suppose??
Anything is better than using a regular spoon which bends backwards when scooping ice cream!
Mom has a favorite spoon and every time I use it to scoop out ice cream for her and I, I wind up bending it…..she gets so mad….this would be a perfect solution.
I love the idea od this electric ice cream scoop and would love to win it!
I love the idea of this electric ice cream scoop and would love to win it!
Awesome, butter pecan and moose tracks here I come!
Sorry, but I don’t need another kitchen gadget (after 54 years of marriage and only 2 moves I have enough) I can wait the extra two minutes for the TH to thaw at room temperature and dream of my enjoyment if necessary.
I love turkey hill ice cream and I feel this scoop would help me get the ice cream out easier.
What an awesome idea, an ice cream scoop that warms up and makes the ice cream easier and faster to get! That means more ice cream for me!
My husband would feel like a gourmet chef with a scooper like this.
I wonder how long is the cord. You have to bring the ice cream close to a plug if the cord is short. Of course with anything electrical something could go wrong. Just give me a big spoon to scoop out my favorite flavor of Turkey Hill.
Great product! I’d love that for my ice cream emergencies!
Would be nice for senior citizens… arthritis makes it hard to scoop… but we can’t give up our Turkey Hill!!!
A brilliant gadget to add to my collection. I love it and will definitely use it all the time.
This would be great for the kids to use!
when you are tired of scooping ice cream how about snowball????
here’s the scoop! turkey hill ice cream is electrifying! yum
Looks Scooptastic, would love to try it out.
…how “cool” is this?? or should i have said, “hot”??
GUESS IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THOSE TIMES THE ICE CREAM IS FROZEN SOLID IN ITS CONTAINER. I HAVE A GOOD SCOOP AND SO FAR IT IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE GOTTEN. THAT IS A GOOD THING SINCE MOST OTHERS JUST DO NOT LAST.
Sounds especially great for people with arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, recent hand or wrist sprains, strains, surgery, or age-related weakness!
That scoop with some delicious Turkey Hill ice cream **drools**
WOW, an electric ice cream scoop, wonders will never cease, a great idea!!
We could always use another ice cream scoop in our home! Thanks:)
As I am given to a serious TH ice-cream addiction, but also, a roughly, 10-year lag on current technology/cool stuff, I would be exceedingly grateful to have the first techno-scoop in the neighborhood…
What a neat idea! Great to have on hand for all of the birthday parties when scooping out rock hard ice cream cramps my hand!
Neat design..interesting solution. Love it.
I would just be tickled to death with this gadget!
Sure could use this for those “emergency” nights!
I love gadgets. This would fit in nicely with my others.
I’ve tried all kinds of ice cream scoops but this one sounds like a winner.our
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THIS SCOOPER,IT’S VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO SCOOP ICE CREAM, WITH A SCOOP OR SPOON OR OTHERWISE BECAUSE OF MY MEDICAL PROBLEMS AN TURKEY HILL ICE CREAM IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CREAMY AN DELISHCIOUS AS SOON AS I’M DONE COMMENTING I’M GOING TO GO GET ME SOME TO EAT OUT OF MY FREEZER ;}
Sounds like a great idea to me. Better than softening in the microwave or letting sit out until soft. Would love to own one.
I love Turkey Hill and then my fingers and hands will love Turkey Hill ice cream ! Saved by the scoop !
Just what I need for my Turkey Hill Ice Cream!!!
Gosh darn, the battery ran down and I have to do it the hard way. I’ll get the scissors, cut the carton off the ice cream and dump it in a bowl.
Looks like a good idea
It certainly sounds like something that would come in handy.
I thought that was only me – sometime ice cream is hard as a rock and sometime it’s soft (or soft enough to scoop out easily). In any case this scooper sounds ideal.
This scooper would be perfect for those time when the ice cream is so hard that I end up accidentally flinging a scoop on the floor by trying so hard to get some out.
I have arthritis & this would be great!
funny enough i was fighting to get ice cream from carton to bowl last night… this would make fights like that eastier to win lol
Anything that gets me to my ice cream faster is a good thing!
I think this is a great gift for people who have everything or like gadgets. Might get some Christmas presents.
I think it would be a neat thing to have.
I guess this just proves the old addage, “There’s something for everyone”..or maybe better yet,”There’s a fool born every minute and someone to take his money “
To paraphrase Frank Sinatra…
It’s perfectly all right,eating ice cream in the night. Scoop me up a scoop, la, la,la, la,la. Scoop me up a scoop….
awesome prize!
Now this is something I can use. I have had many times when scooping the hard as rock ice cream out of the container to have it go flying across the table, most times landing on the floor. Anything to make having a dish or cone of ice cream sounds good.
I would love to win this, if not, I may just buy one. Sounds like a good idea to me.
I always wished for something this simple yet very innovating to break grounds with my 1/2 gallon container and serve up some delicious Turkey Hill ice cream to me!
There is nothing worse than getting all excited for your bowl of ice cream only to find it solid as a rock! I love the idea of this electric scoop. Bring it on!
I would try it, you never know I might like it.
I need this, Turkey Hill ice cream, is GGGGGRRRRREEEEAAAAATTTTTTT!
Fantastic idea –
This would be great no more bent spoons and lots more turkey hill
Pretty nifty!
This would be GREAT!!! No more bent spoons! …No more feeling like rock hard ice cream is gonna break your hand! Winning this would be AWESOME!!!
i want it ineed it please it goes great with turkeyl hill ice cream
“Heats up in minutes”, who wants to wait for the ice cream scoop to heat up? You probably would already be eating your ice cream using the old fashioned regular scoop. I guess you could start using the electric scoop while it is heating up. Anyway, unless the heating is instantaneous, the price is way too high. I guess if your post is selected, it would be fun for a kid to use it when the icecream is concrete hard. I, of course, am assuming that it does not get so hot that it could burn someone’s skin.
You can get ready to enjoy your ice cream in the future with this wonderful ice cream scoop.
What a great idea.
i can scoop all the faster if i win this prize!!
My favorite ice cream scoop is the one my son gave me a few years ago. It had a note attached that said, “Hey Mom, here’s your Mother’s Day gift. If it is a piece of junk, it was $1.00. An electric one sure would come in handy when this one doesn’t scoop the TH.
now my kids could be me ice cream instead of me serving them!
What a clever idea.
This would be fabulous! I could stop using large spoons to scoop it out!
So excited! Going to PA next month, and I’ll be visiting Turkey Hill!!
Save a lot arm muscles when you are scooping for ten grandchildren and sometimes there friends lol.
like ice cream on these hot hot nights whats better than a great scoop i love it
see abouve
WOOO MAy I please have it?
.. DO YOU KNOW THAT I NOW TAKE A VERY BIG SERVING SPOON,TURN ON MY GAS STOVE,AND LET THAT SPOON HEAT UP TILL I KNOW IT IS VERY HOT-HOT-HOT,GO GRAB MY PLAIN-OL’-BORING-VANILLA TURKEY HILL ICE CREAM AND SCOOP OUT ABOUT HALF THE BOX WITH THAT STOVE-HEATED SPOON? I W A N T T H I S !!!!! I won !! WOW!! THANKS!!! GREAT PRIZE!! IT WORKS GREAT!!!! I DO A LOT OF CUT AND PASTE, SO WHEN YOU SEND IT TO ME, I WILL TAKE A PHOTO OF MY PLAIN OL’ VANILLA TURKEY HILL LABEL THAT I PASTED ON THE SCOOP AND SEND IT BAck !! So I AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF MY REAL-COOL HEATED ICE- Ice-CREAM SPOON Thanks!!!! JOHN S.
JIM in SOMD !>>>Come on Buddy-Boy lighten up !! You know the function IS heat to semi-melt the icecream so that you can get it into the bowl. At our house WE super-freeze everything and ice cream freezes rock-hard. This tool would be indespensible for us to have. We now take a large cleaver, heat it over a gas stove and cut”Rock-hard” Ice cream cakes the same way !!! OBVIOUSLY caution is the watch ward here Jimbo. Do you stop using sewing needles because you could puncture a finger? Do You stop using a power saw because you could cut off your hand? Same here dude,,, use caution where it is warranted and LIGHTEN UP !!! John S.
…. Reply to Angie Tierney… LIGHTEN UP GIRL !! your comment ” Maybe better yet there’s a fool born every minute…”" is kind of irrelevant here… MAYBE you MAY NOT HAVE A NEED FOR SUCH A DEVICE , BUT DONT SQUASH SOMEONE ELSE”s IDEA OF A PRODUCT THAT WOULD HELP SOME OF US WHO USE our FREEZER CAPABILITIES TO THE MAX. DID YOU ALSO LAUGH AT THE IDEA THAT MAN WOULD NEVER LAND ON THE MOON ? : MANY DiD. iF IT FILLD A DO YOU HAMMER NAILS WITH A ROCK ?? THANK GOD THERE ARE HAMMERS GIRLIE-GIRL. I REST MY CASE. John S.
We conduct fundraisers at work serving approximately 70 – 80 people in two hours. We had an old electric one that broke, now after usung as regular scoop, I realize how much I miss the electric model!