I just tried an electric spoon that makes food taste saltier, and it's easily the weirdest thing at CES 2025

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Kirin's Electric Salt Spoon electrocutes your tongue to help you eat healthier

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Since it’s January, health is at the top of a lot of people’s minds. We all have our own ways of approaching new health habits, but if your resolution is to eat healthier, I just tried a gadget at CES 2025 that might be able to help.

Although the spoon in its current iteration is way too chunky to use on a daily basis comfortably, I gave it a spin, err, sip.

Once powered on, the electric salt spoon offers four levels of “saltiness” (a.k.a. electric current strength). The team representing the Electric Salt Spoon suggested I use level 3, so I toggled the control button three times and dug in.

Check out my segment with Cheddar on all the interesting health gadgets we've seen so far at CES 2035 below.

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First, I sampled a bowl of miso soup in the old-fashioned way — a soup bowl straight to lips — as a control. It tasted decent, but I do tend to like my food on the salty side. Then, I gripped the Electric Salt Spoon, making sure my hand made contact with the metal base on the back, scooped up some of the broth, and brought it to my mouth to close the current. It’s recommended to hold the spoon for a few seconds for the effect to take place, and sure enough, towards the end of my spoonful, I noticed a faint tinging that made the soup taste saltier.

It was a weird experience, to say the least, and I couldn’t shake the fact that I was basically electrocuting my tongue for the sake of making food taste slightly better.

But hey, if eating less salt is a priority for you, the Electric Salt Spoon is the type of product to keep on your radar. It’s already on sale in Japan for a little over the equivalent of $100, though Kirin is hoping to bring the product to more countries soon.

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Kate Kozuch is the managing editor of social and video at Tom’s Guide. She writes about smartwatches, TVs, audio devices, and some cooking appliances, too. Kate appears on Fox News to talk tech trends and runs the Tom's Guide TikTok account, which you should be following if you don't already. When she’s not filming tech videos, you can find her taking up a new sport, mastering the NYT Crossword or channeling her inner celebrity chef.