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The history of the ice-cream scoop. Carl Stöckel, master technician from Eutin from northern Germany, travelled to America in 1925 and saw the ice-cream scoops that the street vendors were using there. This was the time when all the world suddenly wanted ice-cream Italian-style – remember the 20’s number “I scream, you scream ...”? With German precision, he then turned the scoops he’d seen into a minor mechanical work of art – the Stöckel ice-cream scoop, which went on to become famous in ice-cream parlours world-wide. Its principle is a simple one: a curved piece of metal is set in motion, separating the sticky mass of ice-cream from the rounded scoop with a couple of clean ‘clicks’. Thanks to its rounded shape, the scoop is also a useful all-round tool in the kitchen that you can use for potato purée or rice or anything else you want to shape into a ball.