Cheetos Duster lets you add that unique flavor (and color) to food

Instead of licking Cheetos dust off your fingers, you could be sprinkling it on your food. If your food has been tasting a bland lately, maybe you need a new spice. Have you considered Cheetos dust?

The people behind the orange snack food are now suggesting that a sprinkling of ground-up Cheetos can be a flavor enhancer for everything from ice cream to Brussels sprouts.

They’ve even introduced a new mini kitchen appliance to promote the idea. The Cheetos Duster is basically a Cheetos-branded, cordless mini-food processor designed to grind Cheetos into a fine powder.

When the device was put on sale for $19.95 on Amazon.com on Black Friday, it sold out in minutes. It’s since shown up on sites like eBay where sellers have been asking up to $100 for the Cheetos Duster.

We managed to snag one for a test drive.

We can report that the Cheetos Duster — with its traffic-cone-orange paint job, chrome accents and Cheetos dust fingerprint decals — is a triumph of form.

As far as function goes, well, you could probably get the same results or better by whizzing your Cheetos through a food processor, kneading a bagful of the snacks with your hands or smashing them with a frying pan.