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There are many bakers who use a cookie scoop to ensure that their cookies come out to be the exact same size with each batch they bake. For a professional baker, the tool can be helpful because it guarantees that they will get the exact number of cookies that they need from a batch of dough. For a home baker, it simply means that baking times will be standardized and the finished cookies will all be evenly done.
But because some find the useful, it doesn't mean that scoops are necessary objects. I don't like using cookie scoops at home, despite the fact I have several different kinds. I don't find that they work well, even when I use warm water to rinse them between every few scoops, because dough will inevitably stick to them. I get results that are just as good - evenly portioned and evenly baked - when I simply "eyeball" the sizes of my cookie dough balls.
Scoops are a great idea for kids, though. They have a hard time measuring out the dough by eye and will end up with cookie dough in fewer places (hair, clothing, etc), if their hands aren't directly touching the dough. There is an added bonus of your child having their very own "special" tool in the kitchen, which will probably encourage them to come in and help out more often.
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8-04-2006 @10:08AM tr said... i always use scoops for drop cookies for consistency, as you said. when i was younger, and my mom would let my sister and i make cookies, i always found it super hard to use that "two spoons" method. i mean, you stick dough on a spoon, and then use another spoon to push it off? but then the dough sticks on that spoon...even at that young age, i thought "there has to be a better way."
in regards to dough jamming up the scoop, i suppose it varies depending on what kind of cookie dough you're making. i never use warm water to rinse between scoops, because i never have to. i just made some chocolate chip cookies, and with a scoop, i work like a machine; i can drop a dozen cookies on the sheet in like 20 seconds! and they all come out exactly the same. the one problem is, when people see my cookies, they always ask "Did you MAKE these, or are these store bought? They look too perfect..."
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8-04-2006 @10:14AM tr said... also, Nicole, do you own those scoops that you linked to, the push-button ones? do you like them? i've never tried them, but for cookie dough, they don't seem like they would work too well, as there's no real way to scrape the stuff from the inside of the scoop. i use one similar to this one, but slightly smaller:
http://www.amazon.com/Norpro-2-Tablespoon/dp/B00004UE84/sr=1-5/qid=1154700689/ref=pd_bbs_5/103-9812478-2242248?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden
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8-04-2006 @11:32AM rainey said... I have to agree with tr that a scoop is absolutely the way to go to pop out dozens of cookies in a flash. I use a squeeze handle type that "sweeps" the back of the scoop. Sure it gums up some but it's still much faster with the advantage of consistent size and nice shape. I wouldn't take the time to rinse it out. I imagine that would get messy and wasteful and I'm really happy with the production that I get.
I recently bought a small lucite scoop with a soft silicone back intended to let you "push" the dough out from behind but I haven't tried it out yet.
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8-04-2006 @12:23PM JoAnna said... cookie scoops are totally the way to go. Cookies of the same size bake evenly, and stack better. If you use the kind that's a whole-hand grip, instead of a thumb-pusher or a button-dropper, it's way easier on your hands. I also never rinse between scoops, but a little shot of cooking spray in the works really helps that little curved scraper-thing that pushes the dough out of the bowl do its work.
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8-04-2006 @12:33PM Nicole Weston said... I have all the scoops that I linked to. And I no longer find it worth my while to use any of them, not for cookie dough, at least. I do sometimes use them for small amounts of ice cream and other various kitchen uses.
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8-04-2006 @5:05PM Amy Z said... I never use scoops and my cookies are uniform in size. I also don't use 2 spoons - just one, and one clean hand (well fingers, actually). I've never had a problem. I haven't browsed through all the scoops, but they all seem kind of small. In my famaily, when the recipe says "drop by rounded teaspoonful" my mom always said to use a tablespoon. So, I suppose that's where the size thing comes from.
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