Chopsticks that can be used for everything
The big flaw in chopsticks for most hippies and internationalists, who would love to use them for everything, is that they’re not very good at spooning soup.
You could be a good, conscious citizen of the world and clean your entire plate with sticks, but once you stab and tweeze the hunks of tofu and noodles out of your bowl, you’re stuck with a bunch of broth that you’ll never chopstick outta there unless you partially freeze it, or solidify it with a handful of cornstarch.
More realistically, you can pick up the bowl and slurp - verboten most places outside of Asia - or you can admit defeat and ask for a spoon.
UNTIL NOW.
If someone made chopsticks that were partially hollow and had holes on both ends, your chopsticks would function doubly as straws, so you could rotate - in a civilised manner - between stabbing artichoke hearts and sipping your soup broth.
Never say “never” again.
6 years ago