Powered chopsticks use electricity to make food taste 50% saltier:
Japanese food, beverage, and pharmaceuticals company Kirin recently announced that it and a team of researchers have developed a “chopstick device” that uses electrical stimulation to make food taste up to 50 percent saltier than it would otherwise.
I bought a set of these chopsticks after seeing a fellow traveler in Tibet use them. From above photo I find out they are even cooler – the wood is from recycled baseball bats. Why not bring your own chopsticks to a restaurant instead of using virgin bamboo or wood sticks? China is introducing a tax on chopsticks, because they are losing their forests… But luckily there is a new movement and more and more people bring their own.
