CES 2026: This knife secretly vibrates once you lower with it

I spent a part of my Sunday evening at CES 2026 chopping greens on the showroom ground of the Unveiled media occasion. However this wasn’t your common cooking demo: My knife vibrated at any time when I lower right into a tomato.

This would possibly sound like some kind of twisted Cutthroat Kitchen problem, however belief me — it is extra sensible than it sounds. Launching this month from the cutlery startup Seattle Ultrasonics, the C-200 UltraSonic Chef’s Knife has an orange button on its deal with that makes its eight-inch Japanese metal blade vibrate about 30,000 instances per second. This permits it to slice by means of meals extra easily than a daily knife, in addition to prevents crumbs from clinging to the blade. It additionally should not have to be sharpened as steadily.

Impressively, the C-200 solely wiggles a distance of 10 to twenty microns when it vibrates — 1 / 4 of the width of a grain of salt, per a PR rep — so you do not see or really feel it transfer in any respect. It seems and handles like an ordinary chef’s knife, albeit one on the heftier facet. The one purpose I am assured that Seattle Ultrasonics wasn’t punking me with a daily knife is as a result of it often made a pointy pinging noise if it was used whereas moist. It is the identical high-pitched sound {that a} wine glass makes if you happen to run a moist finger round its rim.

I would not say the C-200 labored dramatically higher than the good new chef’s knife I simply received for Christmas, however it actually sliced like a dream. I had no bother getting it to chop paper-thin items of tomato with a light-weight contact. Seattle Ultrasonics’ rep likened it to using a motorcycle versus pedaling an e-bike in that it makes your expertise extra easy.

Vibration apart, it is only a decent-looking knife.
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The C-200 has been six years within the making, and the corporate claims it is the primary ultrasonic knife in the marketplace that is meant for house use. Industrial choices are costly and hulking; the smallest various is the scale of a shoebox. To maintain the C-200 small, its circuit board needed to be folded on itself throughout the deal with.

The C-200 may be bundled with a wi-fi mahogany charging tile (not pictured).
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The C-200 is IP65-rated for water resistance, which means you’ll be able to hand-wash it like some other chef’s knife. Its detachable battery is rechargeable by way of USB-C.

The C-200’s first sold-out manufacturing run begins transport later this month, and its second batch of reservations is now stay on the Seattle Ultrasonics web site forward of a March launch. It retails for $399 by itself and $499 with its wi-fi mahogany charging tile, so it is decidedly a splurge for severe house cooks. In its protection, different premium Japanese chef’s knives value that a lot and do not vibrate.

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