Your options in the ice cream scoop are thus: a spoon, which depending upon the solidity of your ice cream will bend like Yuri Geller's holding it.  A "microwaveable" or otherwise heat-able ice cream scoop - the whole reason you chose ice cream is because you didn't want to cook, now you're using appliances to prepare ice cream?  And the traditional scoops.  These are the standard scoop where you use your fingers to dislodge the scoop, or the lever scoop, where you use your fingers to dislodge the scoop once the lever pops off.  Here, the pressure is from behind the scoop, and it pops right out.