Zeroll ice cream scoop

TangentsJune 30, 20241 Minutes

What is more summer than enjoying some tasty ice cream or gelato on a hot day. It’s even better when you can get the perfect scoop without hurting your hand or bending the spoon!

The Zeroll ice cream scoop is the classic ice cream tool and was first designed in 1933 by Sherman Kelly. It was designed as a non-mechanical ice cream scoop, made of cast aluminium, with fluid inside the handle. Its unique design transferred heat from the user’s hand, warming the fluid, which in turn defrosted the scoop. The handle is also intentionally thicker, not only to accommodate the fluid chamber, but also to provide a better grip than a spoon.

Zeroll still manufactures this iconic scoop today, unchanged in its design, 100 years later. For many, it honours a nostalgic emotion of going to the ice cream shop!