In common usage, a scoop is any specialized spoon used to serve food.
12-565: Kauhajoki ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkɑu̯hɑˌjoki] ; lit. “ Scoop River ”) is a town and municipality of Finland . It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region , 59 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of the city of Seinäjoki . The population of Kauhajoki is 12,572 (31 October 2024) and the municipality covers an area of 1,298.98 km (501.54 sq mi) of which 16.46 km (6.36 sq mi)
24-623: A Unesco Global Geopark Lauhanvuori-Hämeenkangas . Permanent settlement in the Kauhajoki area began in the 16th century and in 1584 chapel was built in Kauhajoki. When the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the Winter War , in early December 1939 Parliament was evacuated and the legislature temporarily relocated to Kauhajoki, a town in western Finland far away from the frontline. The parliament held 34 plenary sessions in Kauhajoki, with
36-455: Is inland water (1 January 2018). The population density is 9.68/km (25.1/sq mi). The town is unilingually Finnish . The neighboring municipalities of Kauhajoki are Isojoki in the southwest, Kankaanpää in the south, Karijoki in the west, Karvia in the southeast, Kurikka in the north and Teuva in the west. Kauhajoki is the center of the Suupohja sub-region . Most of Kauhajoki
48-682: Is located north of the Suomenselkä 's watershed . Most of the municipal area is a gently sloping plains to the west and north. On the border of the Kauhajoki and Isojoki is Lauhanvuori , one of the highest points in Western Finland , which rises 231 meters above sea level. However, the highest point of Lauhanvuori is on the Isojoki side, a few tens of meters from the Kauhajoki border. Lauhanvuori national park and an other national park located in Kauhajoki, Kauhaneva-Pohjankangas , belong to
60-410: The transfer scoop which is used to measure or to transfer an unspecified amount of a bulk dry foodstuff such as rice, flour, or sugar. Dishers are usually hemispherical like an ice cream scoop, while measuring scoops are usually cylindrical , and transfer scoops are usually shovel -shaped. Some dishers have mechanical levers which help expel the disher's contents. Traditionally dishers are sized by
72-590: The Covid-19 pandemic. On season 2023–24 Karhu Basket plays also in the FIBA Europe Cup . The home venue of Karhu Basket is the IKH Areena. IKH Areena can hold 3500 spectators, which is more than a quarter of the inhabitants of Kauhajoki. Some internationally successful Kauhajokian sports figures include: [REDACTED] Media related to Kauhajoki at Wikimedia Commons Scoop (utensil) In
84-539: The country's history, in Rauma in 1989, leaving two people dead. Kauhajoki has the highest proportion of Finnish Kale in Finland, with an estimated 5% of the population being Finnish Kale. The town is linguistically homogenous, with 97% speaking Finnish. Kauhajoki has the highest proportion of Hungarians in Finland , with 0.6% of the population speaking Hungarian. In the 1980s, the traditional parish dished of Kauhajoki
96-608: The hotel had trouble with ice cream sticking to serving spoons, and he developed an ice cream scoop. On June 10, 1896, Cralle applied for a patent on his invention. He was awarded patent 576,395 on February 2, 1897. The patented "Ice Cream Mold and Disher" was an ice cream scoop with a built-in scraper to allow for one-handed operation. Cralle's functional design is reflected in modern ice cream scoops. Transfer scoops (a.k.a. utility scoops) are used to transfer bulk foods from large storage containers to smaller containers, and generally do not have any measurement markings, as their purpose
108-532: The last on 12 February 1940. On 23 September 2008, a school shooting at a vocational college in the city left 11 dead, including the gunman, and another woman wounded. The incident was the second school shooting in less than a year in Finland, the other being the Jokela school shooting in November 2007, in which nine people including the gunman died. Before that, only one other school shooting had taken place in
120-463: The number of scoops per quart but may also be sized by ounces , the diameter of the bowl, or the number of tablespoons they hold. Some higher-end ice cream scoops have a thermally conductive liquid in the handle to help keep the ice cream from freezing to the scoop's metal. Alfred L. Cralle , a porter in a drug store and at a hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, noticed that servers at
132-424: The technical terms used by the food service industry and in the retail and wholesale food utensil industries, there is a clear distinction between three types of scoop: the disher , which is used to measure a portion e.g. cookie dough , to make melon balls , and often to serve ice cream (although manufacturers frequently advise against using dishers for ice cream and other frozen foods); the ice cream scoop , and
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#1732791061005144-400: Was named sinsalla (a local name of rosolli ) and charred Baltic herrings . Today sports in Kauhajoki is mostly famous for the basketball team Karhu Basket . Karhu Basket has been the most successful team in Finland for years winning the national league in 2018, 2019 and 2022. In the season 2020-21 Karhu Basket was second and in the season 2019-20 the season was interrupted because of
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