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You’ll never struggle with a frozen-solid pint again. When faced with a container of ice cream that is too hard to scoop, use this method.
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Warm the blade of a sharp paring knife under hot water. Make 1-inch-deep cuts, spaced 1 inch apart, from side to side. Turn the container 90 degrees and repeat to form a checkerboard pattern. Warm the ice cream scoop under hot water before scooping. Repeat as necessary.
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Wasting water 🙅🏼♂️
N.S.S.
The heated scoop does the job just fine. There is no need for the cutting. Whenever I'm getting ready to serve ice cream, I just get water going in my electric kettle. Then just keep a bowl of the nearly boiling water to dip the scoop in every couple of scoops.
This video is dumb. Zero help. Your ice cream would have been scoopable with a room warm spoon.
This promotes water waste.
Heat the water in the microwave and promote conservation
Always thought if you can't wait 10 minutes for some thawing action, you've got a problem, and shouldn't be eating it to begin with…😂
Best way I've found is to put the carton of ice cream in the microwave for 40 second. Works every time
that icecream was soft already
the frozen solid ice cream is even when a knife cant go through it, ive had plenty of those experiences
It's already so soft 😆 🤣 😂
Nonsense. This was soft airy ice cream. Try it on Ben and Jerry.
Use a fork.
My mom taught us to this all our lives. We had an old school scooper with a hollow metal handle designed for this very purpose. Anyone who has worked in an ice cream parlor can tell you this. Thanks for sharing!
Yet another case of a new generation "discovering something" that's been around for close to 100 years..It's called an Ice Cream Dip Well.
I just put the scooper in my arm pit for about 30 seconds, and good to go!
I think I'll just use a blowtorch instead of hot water. I can't see that going badly.
Hey, folks. 1) Maybe they ran the knife under hot water more than once to keep it warm, but didn't think they had to spell that out. 2) The repeated slices with the warm knife will make the ice cream at the surface softer. Ask yourself: if they hadn't tried the viewer tip and found it worked well with ice cream that had frozen solid, why would they bother to make a video about it? What good would it do them? It would only damage their brand. Everything isn't a massive conspiracy to defraud you.
the ice cream is soft AF in this video tho
it's easy, just microwave your spoon
Lets use water and energy for nothing..
I’m on the fat side of YouTube again.
I like to deep fry my ice cream to get it soft. Doesn't solve the kitchen on fire problem, but at least no ice cream melt down.
A great tip — many thanks!
Ice cream? More like dice cream
First of all, Breyers never gets solid hard because it is a bastardized ice cream actually labeled frozen dairy dessert.
Lame, scooping soft ice cream?
First of all, Breyers ice cream NEVER gets that hard. Second, avoid the "checkerboard" knife act and just warm the scoop. Why make things so darn complicated.
That was clearly soft ice cream
Nice try
Love ATK, but this was a joke…
That was NOT "frozen solid" ice cream. I expected much better from America's Test Kitchen. Please do not try pulling something like this again.
Do you remember going to the corner store in Mt Carmel to get a cone of ice cream? Or in the alley next to the cigar factory?
Waste of water..
Anybody else feel scammed???
The icecream used actually looked juicy! it was that soft!
Or, nuke it. That works great, too. You can soften the ice cream just enough to scoop but not so much that it melts. That's how I do it.
I use a large metal pumpkin gutting spoon I picked up on clearance one year. Its like using a snow shovel. Blue Bell ice cream deserves nothing less.
I hate videos like this. They always leave me thinking, "now why didn't I think of that" .
Call me skeptical if you must, but most YouTube tips don't work. This doesn't look it will work either. Admittedly, not that I've tried it, but it doesn't look like it will work.
Despite the fact the video shows soft ice cream. If your ice cream is too hard to scoop with a warm spoon but soft enough that a warm knife will slice through this actually works very well. That's often how our ice cream ends up. But I'm sure if you live in Siberia and your ice cream can double as a brick this might not be as effective.