Zeroll makes a line of EZ Dishers (scoops) that come in 13 sizes, are easy to clean and use, and basically indestructible. So I got back online and started researching quality cookie scoops that come in a range of sizes. It worked but it was time-consuming and made me feel like a crazy person. That night I made hundreds of cookie balls, weighing each one to make sure it was exactly 23 grams. Then I measured out 1.3 tablespoons of dough and measured it on my digital scale. By pouring water into the scoop a teaspoonful at a time I determined that it was about 4 teaspoons, or 1.3 tablespoons. The first stop was measuring the volume of my original scoop. Honestly, if I make a cookie that is more than a millimeter or two different than the others, I usually toss it in our cookie jar rather than include it in my cookie boxes. Any bigger or smaller and not only will the number of cookies per batch vary, but the baking times will be off too. My #50 cookies measure 2 5/8 inches and that’s exactly how I like them. Maybe that seems silly to be so particular, but part of making a professional-looking product is uniformity.
DOLLAR SCOOP HOW TO
I had to figure out how to make all my cookies the same size without a scoop. I mean, without a functioning cookie scoop that’s exactly the right size, what is life about? Who am I? Seriously, I actually cried. I may or may not have had my first true existential baking crisis in that moment. Unfortunately, when they arrived the next day both scoops broke the first time I tried to use them. I finally found a #50 scoop on Amazon, two actually, and because I was in a jam I ordered them both. They call them “large, medium, and small” but they’re really #30, #40, and #70. I called Sur La Table back and had them check the numbers on their scoops. THE HIGHER THE NUMBER, THE SMALLER THE SCOOP.
A #70 will give you 70 scoops from a quart, which is why it was smaller. A #50 means that, using this scoop, you will get 50 scoops out of a quart of dough. But it doesn’t stand for 50mm or 50ml, it’s a gauge. An even smaller scoop said 100.Īfter googling around and searching on Amazon, I deduced that the 50 was a size of scoop, or “disher”, as the scoops with a spring handle release are called. That’s when I noticed a little number stamped into the metal of both scoops. When I held it up to my first one, it didn’t match. I picked the “medium” one and took it home. In my naivety I thought, “I’ll just go get another one!” So I headed over to Sur La Table and started rifling through their cookie scoops.
I had been using it for five straight years and it had probably scooped tens of thousands of cookies. This year, right in the middle of baking thousands of holiday cookies, my beloved cookie scoop broke. But that still doesn’t tell you which scoop to buy, especially when they’re usually labeled: small, medium, large, jumbo, etc. When it says “tablespoon”, you want about 4 teaspoons. So exactly how much does your recipe want you to use? Here’s my take: When it says “teaspoon”, you want a scant 2 teaspoons. That means get a teaspoon out of your drawer and use that.
DOLLAR SCOOP FULL
Recipes from back in the day say “drop a teaspoon full of dough” but that doesn’t literally mean one teaspoon. So now that you agree that you need a cookie scoop (right?), you need to decide which cookie scoop sizes you need. But even if you don’t obsess over every millimeter difference in a cookie, you still value your time, right? As you’re about to find out, I take uniformity in cookies VERY SERIOUSLY. A good quality cookie scoop ensures more consistent results and is much, much faster than the spoonful method. But if you want cookies that bake up evenly and are uniform in size, you totally need a cookie scoop. Plenty of people live happy, fulfilling lives while haphazardly plopping uneven “teaspoons” full of dough willy nilly all over their cookie sheets. Small, medium, large? What does that mean when you come across it in a recipe? If a recipe calls for a tablespoon of dough and you want to use a cookie scoop, which should you use? If you arrived at this post looking for a Cookie Scoop Size Chart, you are in the right place because I have got everything cookie scoop ON LOCK.ĭo you absolutely need a cookie scoop to make cookies? No you do not sir.
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