Cold Steel Counter-Tac Ice Cream Scooper

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The Cold Steel Counter Tac I is undoubtedly the most effective ice cream scooper ever made. Its unique blade profile and deadly sharpness will make penetrating even the toughest ice cream on the block as easy as a pie.
With its full length hidden tang construction, (I checked with a magnet), 5" long .195" thick blade stock and superior Japanese manufacturing quality (the grind lines are perfect), the Cold Steel Counter-Tac Ice Cream Scooper can compete at any level, going toe to toe with even the most radical scoopers on the market.

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Notice the concave nature if this side of the blade. A veritable frozen dairy scooping dynamo.

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See the effectiveness with which it cleaves the frozen product from the side of the bucket.

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Here you see the ice cream sitting inattentive at the side of the container...

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In one swoop, the mound is gone, leaving virtually no trace of its very existence.

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Ice cream is not the only consumable that needs to watch out for this fierce tool, the banana can be dispatched with the same ease as the ice cream was only moments ago.

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For only the most experienced operators, and highly trained individuals such as myself, the Cold Steel Counter-Tac Ice Cream Scooper can even be used to eat the banana split. Demonstrating the extreme versatility of this awesome tool.

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A knife as an ice-cream scoop? I didn't think of that, haha.... :thumbup:

Nice pictures, by the way...
 
Certainly a powerful demonstration. Yet I think it would have been more realistic, and therefore a better test, had you used pure vanilla. A frozen block of ice cream is considerably weakened by the introduction of other elements be they ripples or chunks.

I have found that unadulterated vanilla yields only to my Recon Tanto with Carbon 5 steel. The Laredo Bowie also works but of course is awkward due to its lenghth.

For your next test you might consider suspending a gallon of frozen chocolate from a rope. Ought to be a good test of slicing ability.
 
So, it's safe to assume that all dairy and banana specimen that were used in this demo were donated to local charities? :D

I can't wait to see the tedious trial of 500 straight scoops of rocky-road ice cream. The irregular nature of the dessert is enough to shoo away chinese competitors, so I've heard. :cool:
 
I'm still waiting for the picture of the ice cream being scooped INTO your mouth with the pointy end straight inside^_^.
 
There's actually one more trick left in this thing.

I don't have a full bucket at the moment so no pics, but if you have a good 4" of ice cream you can cut out a pointy chunk the same shape as the cone it is intended to fit into. I hate cramming hard ice cream into a nice cone.
 
Quick Steel said:
Certainly a powerful demonstration. Yet I think it would have been more realistic, and therefore a better test, had you used pure vanilla. A frozen block of ice cream is considerably weakened by the introduction of other elements be they ripples or chunks.
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That's why ice cream made with a Powdered Dairy process is superior -- smaller, consistent carbide grain size and better mixing of the alloying elements into the base vanilla. Ignore the people who swear that the traditional Japanese/Viking method of hundreds of folds of the ice cream results in a better product than modern production techniques.
 
Could someone please post the video of Lynn Thompson using this knife to consecutive fillet 43 bananas, while on safari in Ecuador. I believe it's a world record. Incidentally, before departing Ecuador, Mr. Thompson left that very knife behind with a local banana harvester, and rumor has it the knife continues to perform well without further sharpening.....as a paper-weight. :)

- regards
 
Quick Steel said:
Certainly a powerful demonstration. Yet I think it would have been more realistic, and therefore a better test, had you used pure vanilla. A frozen block of ice cream is considerably weakened by the introduction of other elements be they ripples or chunks.
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That just sounds like gross abuse of a knife to me, seriously. The OP already pushes the knife to it' s limits but what you suggest is just abuse.
 
Added this page to favorites. This is by far the funniest knife review I have ever seen and I congratulate you for posting it.
 
randomlooker said:
That's why ice cream made with a Powdered Dairy process is superior -- smaller, consistent carbide grain size and better mixing of the alloying elements into the base vanilla. Ignore the people who swear that the traditional Japanese/Viking method of hundreds of folds of the ice cream results in a better product than modern production techniques.
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Yup, I heard the next spyderco mule knife will be made with PD-C30V70 (Powdered dairy 30% chocolate 70% vanilla). Supposed to be 3x harder and 8x more delicious than ZDP-189.
 
The irritating aspect of this, of course, is the extremely limiting double edge---whereas with a single edged knife could utilize the banana as a baton.
 
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