• Sturdy metal scoop makes uniformly sized cookies
• Soft grip handles absorb pressure when squeezed to release dough
• 1-1/2 tablespoon scoop of dough yields a 2-3/4-inch cookie
• Also useful for making small ice cream balls
• Dishwasher-safe

OXO's Good Grips Cookie Scoop make it easy to scoop up cookie dough and make perfectly round cookies. It's a must-have tool for any baker's kitchen. The Scoop has a soft grip that absorbs pressure while you squeeze. A simple squeeze releases cookie dough in a snap.

Cookies that are uniform in size will bake evenly, creating a consistently perfect batch. Available also in small and large sizes, this medium-size scoop picks up approximately 1-1/2 tablespoons of dough, which yields a cookie 2-3/4 inches in diameter. While the handles are spread a bit wide for small hands to manage easily, the soft grips do add comfort when squeezing to release the dough. Dishwasher-safe, the scoop can also be used to produce decorative 1-3/4-inch balls of ice cream, rice, and other foods. --Ann Bieri

A Scooper that is well made and can stand up to a cookie dough. Its the little things that make cooking easier and this is one of them . Do not settle for cheap plastic . This product is great.

I first had the medium size of the OXO Good Grips cookie scoop, and I love it to pieces. I've had it a couple of years, and leave it soaking in a mixing bowl of water all the time, and wash it in the dishwasher, top rack.... it looks brand new. I use it at least once a week. It's nice not to have to use 2 teaspoons to scoop dough and try and figure out if all the cookies are the same size. The cookies are also perfectly round and professional looking. I scoop dough with the scoop, and scrape off excess to level the dough against the side of the mixing bowl.

But then I thought, wouldn't it be great to make jumbo cookies and not have to scoop so many times? And wouldn't it also be great to make small cookies, so when I made a batch to take to work, there's technically more cookies to go around per batch?

I think the large and small cookies scoops were unnecessary. Here's why:

The small scoop: One of my favorite cookies to make is oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. The small scoop is hard to use with cookie dough that has chocolate chips or nuts in them, I feel, because it's too small for those additions to a dough. And if a dough has both nuts and chips in them, like a macadamia nut & white chocolate cookie, or chocolate chip & walnut/pecan cookie, forget about it. It's too difficult to get the dough/chip/nut ratio right in each cookie. I do like this small scoop for my peanut butter oatmeal sandwich cookies; they have a peanut butter creme filling, and they're very rich, so it's good to have a smaller cookie size for these. Unfortunately, the PB oatmeal & creme filling cookies aren't asked for very often in my family. Okay, I'll admit, they're never asked for, so I've only made them twice.

The large scoop: I do like this size for my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, but I don't like it *that* much better than my medium scoop size. And I don't like this scoop for my peanut butter blossom cookies (peanut butter cookie rolled in sugar, and when they come out of the oven, a Hershey Kiss is placed in the center of each cookie to melt).... with such a large, rich cookie, I swear the large size of this cookie doesn't taste as peanut-buttery. When I mentioned this to my family as we ate them after dinner, my brother told me I wasn't crazy, it's the same recipe, but it doesn't taste as much like a peanut butter cookie. The large scoop is simply too big for this cookie, or any other rich cookie.

The medium cookie scoop is the best of both worlds, it's the cookie scoop you should get if you're wondering what size to get. It's a great size for rich cookies, it's a great size for cookies with chips and nuts in them. I feel that the other two scoop sizes are likely to only clutter your kitchen utensil drawer, like they do in mine.

we bought this small ice cream scoop to form meat balls. it worked good.

This makes loading cooking sheets so fast you are done in no time and no messy fingers pushing the dough out of a spoon..i also bought the smaller size for whenever i want to make small sugar cookies.. great buy.. wish i had one years ago..

I was watching "Good Eats" on Food TV and Alton Brown was making some great looking cookies. He was using a cookie scoop that looked like this one. I was not sure if it would do all that it appeared to do but I ordered it anyway. Made a batch of cookies and used the scoop and it worked GREAT! I am very happy with it, I got the large scoop and it does make large cookies. I am now going to get both the small and medium scoops. Happy baking.