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A cookie scoop is a restaurant disher with a friendlier handle: a half-sphere bowl of stainless steel, a thin sweeper blade that rotates through it, and a spring-loaded lever that drives the blade when you squeeze. OXO sells three of them under the Good Grips name, and the Medium, sold at $19.99 with SKU 1055893, is the one sized for the standard drop cookie. OXO describes it as a size 40 portioner that yields cookies roughly 2¾ inches across after baking.
The appeal is repeatability. Dough portioned by scoop bakes at the same rate across a sheet, which removes the burnt-edge, raw-center lottery that spoon-dropped cookies produce, and the sweeper means your hands stay out of the dough. What OXO's page leaves out is the number a recipe writer cares about most: how many tablespoons the bowl holds. Below is what can be confirmed from the maker, and what you will need to check yourself.
Our verdict
A well-built $19.99 disher in the size most drop-cookie recipes assume; buy it for consistency and cleanup, and accept that the maker leaves the volume for you to measure.
- A good fit for
- A home baker who makes drop cookies, meatballs or energy bites in batches and wants every piece the same size without touching the dough.
- We would skip it if
- You bake cookies a few times a year and already have two spoons, or your recipes call for tablespoon-size or quarter-cup portions that the small or large model fits better.
Reasons to consider it
- Stainless steel bowl and sweeper blade with a spring-loaded handle that ejects sticky dough in one squeeze
- Size 40 portioning yields baked cookies about 2¾ inches wide, the middle of OXO's three-scoop range
- Dishwasher safe, with a soft non-slip grip and replacement or refund coverage under the OXO Better Guarantee
The compromises
- OXO does not publish the bowl volume, so recipe conversion depends on your own measuring
- A single-size scoop only helps when your recipe portions happen to match it
- At 8 inches long with a spring mechanism it takes more drawer space than the two spoons it replaces
What we have not verified: The scoop was not used here; spring stiffness over hundreds of squeezes, how the sweeper handles very cold dough, and long-term corrosion of the mechanism in a dishwasher were not assessed.
The things in this guide
A closer look at the products, who they may suit, and what to check before buying.
Good Grips Medium Cookie Scoop
A size 40 disher in stainless steel with a spring-loaded, soft-grip handle, rated for the dishwasher and priced at $19.99 in the middle of a three-size range that runs from $17.99 to $20.99.
Before you buy: OXO publishes no bowl volume, and the scoop was not run through batches for this piece to judge spring life or performance with chilled dough.
Price checked September 11, 2026. Retailer prices can change.Size 40, and the volume OXO leaves out
OXO labels the Medium a size 40 portioner and promises baked cookies about 2¾ inches wide. The number follows the disher convention used in commercial kitchens, where the size is the count of level scoops in a quart, so a 40 works out to about 0.8 fluid ounce, or a little over a tablespoon and a half. OXO does not say this on the scoop page, and it publishes no tablespoon figure for the Medium at all, which is an odd omission for a tool whose entire job is measurement. For the Small, by contrast, OXO states a 1 tablespoon capacity outright.
The three sizes stack up as follows. The Small (SKU 1044083) is a size 70 at $17.99, holds a tablespoon and makes 2-inch cookies. The Medium is the size 40 at $19.99 for 2¾-inch cookies. The Large (SKU 1044082) is a size 20 at $20.99 for 3½-inch cookies. Because most recipes are written for a rounded tablespoon or two of dough per cookie, the Medium lands closest to the default, and that is the argument for starting here instead of with either neighbor. If you want to know exactly what yours holds, fill the bowl with water and pour it into a measuring spoon.
Stainless bowl, sweeper blade, spring lever
The specification OXO gives is short: stainless steel, 8 by 3 by 1.5 inches, soft non-slip grip, dishwasher safe. The mechanism is the familiar one, a curved sweeper that arcs through the bowl when the lever is squeezed so dough releases as a ball without a second spoon or a finger. OXO's own pitch is that the cushioned grip absorbs the squeezing pressure, which matters more than it sounds when a recipe yields four dozen and every portion is a squeeze against a spring.
Length is the cost of the design. At 8 inches this is longer than a serving spoon, and the lever and spring give it a profile that does not nest with other tools in a drawer. The Large is longer still at 9 inches with a 2-inch bowl depth. Not one of the three pages mentions the gauge of the steel or the spring material, and OXO's product photos show a black grip and lever on all three sizes, so the choice is only about bowl size, not finish.
Meatballs, truffles and the case for owning one
OXO's own blog makes the argument for the tool better than its product copy does. The post lists energy balls, meatballs, chocolate truffles, arancini and silver-dollar pancakes as jobs a disher does well, and the common thread is portioning something wet or sticky into equal pieces while keeping hands clean. For raw meat the post adds the sensible instruction to run the scoop through the dishwasher afterward, which the Medium's rating allows.
That list also frames the purchase honestly. If the only thing you portion is a monthly batch of chocolate chip cookies, two spoons do the job and cost nothing. The Medium pays off when batches are frequent, when the dough is sticky enough that spoon-dropping is a mess, or when the same 2¾-inch portion doubles as a meatball or a muffin-tin filler. Ninety-five customer reviews sit on OXO's page, and one reviewer reports the scoop is marked as a tablespoon and a half but measured a full fluid ounce for them, which is another nudge toward measuring yours.
The Better Guarantee, and what it asks of you
OXO covers most of its tools under what it calls the Better Guarantee: if a product fails through a flaw in how it was made, in ordinary home use, the company will replace it or refund it. The published terms exclude OXO Brew appliances, some OXO Tot items, bakeware, cookware and knives, none of which apply to a scoop. Refunds require a receipt from the place you bought it, and OXO asks you to hold onto the item until the claim is resolved, so do not toss a broken spring in the trash and then write in.
On value, $19.99 is two dollars more than the Small and one dollar less than the Large, so within OXO's own range the pricing is nearly flat and the decision is about bowl size, not budget. Against generic dishers sold in restaurant-supply stores the OXO costs more; what you pay for is the cushioned handle and the guarantee, and whether that is worth it turns on how many squeezes a year your hands make.
Skip it if your recipes never say 'medium'
Pass on the Medium if your baking runs to one extreme. Bite-size cookies for a tray, or mini muffins, are a size 70 job and the $17.99 Small holds a stated tablespoon. Bakery-style cookies that spread to 3½ inches want the $20.99 Large. Buying the Medium for either of those means squeezing twice or splitting a portion, which throws away the consistency you bought it for.
Also pass if drawer space is the constraint and your output is occasional. An 8-inch spring tool is not a small object, and a pair of spoons already does the portioning for a baker who makes cookies twice a year. The Medium is the one to pick for the person who portions something round most weeks and is tired of uneven sheets; for anybody else it is a pleasant tool that mostly waits in the drawer.
How we put this together
Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.
- OXO: Medium Cookie Scoop product page (opens in a new tab)
- OXO: Small Cookie Scoop product page (opens in a new tab)
- OXO: Large Cookie Scoop product page (opens in a new tab)
- OXO FAQ: The OXO Better Guarantee (opens in a new tab)
- OXO blog: 5 Things to Do with a Cookie Scoop (opens in a new tab)
