Scoop (utensil) Scoop (utensil) In common usage, a scoop is any specialized spoon used to serve food. In the technical terms used by the food service industry and in the retail and wholesale food utensil industries, there is a clear distinction between three types of scoop: the disher, which is used to measure a portion e.g. cookie dough, to make melon balls, and often to serve ice cream (although manufacturers frequently advise against using dishers for ice cream and other frozen foods); ice cream scoops, and the scoop which is used to measure or to transfer an unspecified amount of a bulk
Kitchen utensil instruments for cooking must, in a great degree, bear a striking resemblance to one another". Archaeologists and historians have studied the kitchen utensils used in centuries past. For example: In the Middle Eastern villages and towns of the middle first millennium AD, historical and archaeological sources record that Jewish households generally had stone measuring cups, a "meyḥam" (a wide-necked vessel for heating water), a "kederah" (an unlidded pot-bellied cooking pot), a "ilpas" (a lidded stewpot/casserole pot type of vessel used for stewing and steaming), "yorah" and "kumkum" (pots for heating water), two types of "teganon" (frying pan) for deep and