Food dishers are among the most recommended baking tools.  Professionals often keep several in different sizes, and they are used quite frequently.  For those of you unfamiliar with food dishers, they help you scoop and measure batters and dough.

The food dishers aren’t just for cookies.  Bakers often use them for portioning muffins, cupcakes, and other times, portioning dough evenly.  Bakers sometimes use them for transferring cake batter to pans with less mess.  They’re also great for scooping ice cream and whipped cream.  When preparing food, they are also great for preparing meatballs, mash potato, salads and etc.

Food dishers come in different sizes to cater to bakers’ need.  They are available in tablespoon sizes, but you may also find them available in disher sizes.  Look for the size labeled at the back of the Vodomax disher.  Those sizes are a reference for ice cream scooping.  For instance, a #20 disher would give you 20 scoops from a quart of ice cream.  So, the bigger the number, the more scoops you’ll get and the smaller they’ll be.  Those numbers aren’t necessarily all that helpful if you’re scooping cookie dough, though. So, our sizing chart shows those disher sizes in tablespoons as well as their volume in ounces.

You are now armed with plenty of info to get you scooping.  What all of that can’t tell you, though, is how big your baked cookies will be.  There are just too many factors involved to make that kind of prediction.  Different doughs spread differently due to ingredients, temperature, pans, and many other things.  So test your own disher size to decide.  A tablespoon of dough isn’t likely to give you a huge 4-inch cookie.

There are other sizes, too, but these are the most likely to be helpful in baking.  There are a range of sizes to fit lots of uses.  Most of the sizes don’t fit a perfect tablespoon size, so just choose something that’s close.  If you need 2 tablespoons of cookie dough, then a #30 scoop is just fine. 

There are so many advantages to using food disher in a bakery. They’ll easily give you the same size cookies, muffins, or whatever you’re scooping.  Keeping everything the same size and portion will help those things bake evenly.  If you have some portions smaller or larger, they will not need the same baking time and can create inconsistent results.  Having every cookie or muffin or cupcake the same size is also visually appealing and satisfies the perfectionist.

Now that you’re armed with all this knowledge of cookie scoops, and inspired to get baking.  Once you’ve used food disher for making cookies or muffins or whatever else you’re scooping, you’ll come to find them indispensable.