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While the rest of the world is scraping away at their yogurt containers, we’re keeping things cultured with our new favorite spoon.

In today’s installment of Japanese kitchen gadgets that just make everything easier, we’d like to present a spoon–not just any spoon, but a magical spoon that specializes in scooping up every last bit of your yogurt.

OK, while we can’t guarantee that it’s actually imbued with magic, the spoon produced by Japanese houseware brand Marna sure seems to have some kind of mystical ability. We’d caught wind of it through the grapevine and decided to test it out for ourselves.

Its simple design involves a pliable tip made of silicone and a sturdy blue handle.

▼ We’ve got a good gut feeling about this one.

From a side view, it’s easy to see how the handle curves into an elegant angle at the tip.

Let’s test it out in action. Would it really make a difference in how we eat yogurt now and forevermore?

As we began eating, we noticed immediately how little effort it took to perfectly scour the inside of the container from all angles.

It felt like a mini spatula in this sense, also being quieter than a regular metal spoon.

Amazingly, there was almost no yogurt left clinging to the bottom or the sides of the cup once we had finished, despite not making any extra effort to scrape at the very end.

We next decided to hold a mini controlled experiment by eating one more of the exact same kind of yogurt using a regular metal spoon to compare the results.

We tried eating it as gracefully as possible but there was still some yogurt left at the bottom of the cup at the end. It seems that the fixed shape of the metal tip in this case prevented us from getting it all.

In conclusion, the spoon served its purpose incredibly well, living up to its promise of not wasting any yogurt with minimal effort.

▼ Yogurt container after using a regular metal spoon (left) and the special yogurt spoon (right)

In a fun collaboration, Marna also sells a version of the spoon together with Hiroshima-based company Chichiyasu, the first company in Japan to begin selling yogurt in 1917.

Marna’s yogurt spoon retails for 594 yen (US$3.75) and can be ordered through Marna’s official site or Rakuten Japan. While we never knew what we had been missing all of these years, it’s going to be hard to go back to eating yogurt any other way now. You might consider gifting one to yourself or to the yogurt fanatic in your life.

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