In products which are so simple that they’re form of genius news, I’m probably going to spend a couple of dollars and grab this new wooden spoon/stylus for my kitchen.

As sites like CHOW, Food 52, or even All Recipes in addition to apps like Epicurious continue to switch traditional recipe books for plenty of home cooks, sticky, contaminated iPads and other touchscreen devices become an increasing number of of an issue.

For $7, you may avoid most of this hassle. Meet the ispoon kitchen stylus, a wooden spoon that doubles as a stylus in your in-kitchen touchscreen-using needs.

Just imagine: You grab a handful of ground beef and throw it within the skillet. You grab your wooden spoon to begin breaking it up. Oh crap, how much cumin was I speculated to installed there You can now either wash your hands, otherwise you can just flip over your spoon and faucet your screen to locate your answer. Hooray! Not more E. coli in your iPad!

Sure, you may wash or wipe your hands between contacting your cooking ingredients and checking the recipe for your iPad. On this regard, this isn’t a necessary product. But damnit, it’s cool and that i want it.

[Umbra via Gizmodo]