This thermally conductive aluminum spoon has become a hot topic of conversation for its ability to scoop up hard ice cream right off the spoon. This convenient spoon uses the high thermal conductivity of aluminum to melt hard ice cream with the body heat of the hand holding the spoon.

NITORI "Melt and Scoop Aluminum Ice Cream Spoon

The expensive ones cost more than 3,000 yen, but the other day I found the "Melt and Scoop Aluminum Ice Cream Spoon" at NITORI for 498 yen (tax included), so I bought it. I bought it because I found a "melting and scooping aluminum ice cream spoon" for 498 yen (tax included) at NITORI the other day.

Scooping ice cream "MOW (MOW) Vanilla

Let's try ice cream "MOW Vanilla". When you stick the aluminum spoon into the MOW ice cream freshly taken out of the freezer...




Yeah, it goes in smooth! But I don't think this is much different from a regular spoon. Because Mo's ice cream is smooth to begin with.

By the way, this spoon is flat, so it fits easily in your hand, and it feels very smooth in your mouth when you eat the ice cream! Not only is it easy to melt the ice cream, but I also found that the form of the spoon does not interfere with the texture of the ice cream when eating it.

Scooping the "Shirokuma" shaved ice

Next, let's try the well-known shaved ice "Shirokuma.


When I put the aluminum spoon into the bowl...it seems to be melting slowly. Perhaps the heat conduction makes the ice break up more easily, or maybe it is a little easier to crunch than with a regular spoon.



So far, so expected.

Let's make him fight the last boss, "Azuki Bar.

Then let's have him fight the final battle, the Azuki Bar, the reigning throne of the ticker-tape ice cream world.


I put an aluminum spoon against the azuki bar, which was in the freezer until a while ago. Hmmm, it is still hard. It's tough, so I push a little harder... and little by little, albeit slowly, the spoon goes into the adzuki bar!




Even though it was not as strong as the Moo or Shirokuma, I could feel the spoon melting where I applied it to the bar. I tried using a regular spoon, but the aluminum spoon clearly gave me a better sensation of being able to dive into the azuki bar more smoothly.


For a spoon that costs less than 500 yen, that's quite a feat, isn't it? However, the hardest ice cream in the world (I think) is the one sold in the Shinkansen, so I would like to bring an aluminum spoon to the train one of these days and challenge it to a battle. That is the true final battle.