Are you a salt lover, but you know it’s not good for you? There is now a way to get more salt flavour without actually adding salt. Electric chopsticks.
Yes, electric chopsticks. You plug one of your chopsticks into a little power pack on your wrist and when you eat, the chopsticks stimulate your taste buds into perceiving the flavour of salt.
If you’re wondering why chopsticks and not a fork, this device was put together by a Japanese inventor for the Japanese market. The average diet in Japan is very salt heavy, with people regularly consuming about twice the daily recommended salt intake. So the idea is to help people reduce their daily amount of salt, without reducing the flavour of salt.
It seems like a pretty reasonable idea, although I do wonder about the long term effects of giving my tastes buds a small jolt of electricity over and over again. Although it may be overall better for me to reduce the salt and increase my craving for DC current.
The same person who came up with this idea also came up with another big taste innovation a few months ago. Lickable television. If you see something on TV and wonder what it tastes like, you just lick your TV and find out. That doesn’t sound weird at all, does it? And his timing may have been off a bit. Coming out with a home appliance everyone can lick in the middle of a pandemic is probably not going to go over well. Maybe it will catch on in time. Although I really think there’s a lot more on TV I don’t want to taste than things I do.
But I am a salt fan. Most of my snack choices are salt based. Potato chips, popcorn, things like that. Basically a way to get salt into me. Using electric chopsticks could cut down on my salt intake in a couple ways. I could use snacks with less salt for one thing. And I would likely eat less of these things if I had to use chopsticks.
And I have a feeling my dog would really be a fan. I’m not very good with chopsticks. And when you have a dog, there’s no such thing as the five second rule. Things tend to disappear on their way down.
Maybe this guy can come out with electric fingers for snack food.
