Cookie scoop sizes can be perplexing. Small, medium, large? What does that mean when you come across it in a recipe? If a recipe calls for a tablespoon of dough and you want to use a cookie scoop, which should you use? If you arrived at this post looking for a Cookie Scoop Size Chart, you are in the right place because I have got everything cookie scoop ON LOCK.
Not All Cookie Scoops Are Created Equal
I finally found a #50 scoop on Amazon, two actually, and because I was in a jam I ordered them both. One-day shipping. Unfortunately, when they arrived the next day both scoops broke the first time I tried to use them. They were just too cheap and flimsy. I may or may not have had my first true existential baking crisis in that moment. I mean, without a functioning cookie scoop that’s exactly the right size, what is life about? Who am I? Seriously, I actually cried.
I had to figure out how to make all my cookies the same size without a scoop. Maybe that seems silly to be so particular, but part of making a professional-looking product is uniformity. My #50 cookies measure 2 5/8 inches and that’s exactly how I like them. Any bigger or smaller and not only will the number of cookies per batch vary, but the baking times will be off too. Honestly, if I make a cookie that is more than a millimeter or two different than the others, I usually toss it in our cookie jar rather than include it in my cookie boxes.
Now I moved on to the penalty phase. The first stop was measuring the volume of my original scoop. By pouring water into the scoop a teaspoonful at a time I determined that it was about 4 teaspoons, or 1.3 tablespoons. Then I measured out 1.3 tablespoons of dough and measured it on my digital scale. 23 grams. That night I made hundreds of cookie balls, weighing each one to make sure it was exactly 23 grams. It worked but it was time-consuming and made me feel like a crazy person.
So, I got back online and started researching quality cookie scoops that come in a range of sizes. Finally, I found Zeroll. Zeroll makes a line of EZ Dishers (scoops) that come in 13 sizes, are easy to clean and use, and basically indestructible. They’re also color-coded so you can easily find the size you’re looking for. I’ve been using Zeroll scoops since then and I am so pleased. #50 scoop problem solved! You can buy the perfect cookie scoop here.
Cookie Scoop Size Chart: Nerdcore Edition
BUT. Yesterday I was making these Decadent Chocolate Banana Cupcakes and when it came time to put the batter in the cupcake papers my usual method came up short. As I explain here, I usually use a syringe to draw up cupcake batter because I like the precision it gives me. I use 40ml of batter in every cupcake and they all come out perfectly even. But the lumps in my banana cupcake batter were clogging the syringe. I knew that 40ml was about 2.66 tablespoons (thanks Google!) but I wanted to know how that might translate into a standard size cookie scoop. That’s when things got algebraic. By using this little equation below I was able to plug in the number of tablespoons to calculate the gauge of cookie scoop needed. FYI, 64 is the number of tablespoons in a quart, the volume the scoop gauge is based on.
If you know the gauge # of your scoop, you can calculate how many tablespoons. If you know how many tablespoons, you can calculate the gauge # of scoop you need! So, 64 ÷ scoop# = tbsp OR 64 ÷ tbsp = scoop#. To solve for scoop# I just divided 64 by 2.66 (tbsp.) and got 24.06. In other words, a #24 scoop! And of course it works the other way too. If you want to know how many tablespoons a scoop holds, you just divide 64 by the scoop# and voila! So a #16 scoop holds 4 tablespoons (that’s 1/4 cup for those of you playing along at home).
Now here’s where it gets nerdy. Not only do I want to know the gauge and the number of tablespoons, I also want to know how many fluid ounces and milliliters each scoop will yield. Plus I’d like to know what the finished cookie size will be for each scoop #. For that, I needed a chart. A real fancy Cookie Scoop Size Chart. With this chart you can pick a scoop size for any volume. You can adjust cookie sizes to increase or decrease the number of cookies in a batch. No scoop? No problem. Use the grams column on the chart and weigh each blob. It’s actually faster than measuring with a tablespoon. The weights (and sizes) are based on an average cookie dough and won’t work for things like batter or meringue, which are less dense.
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