Expedition Tongs are made to handle your barbeque, braai and campfire needs: hauling a huge log to a roasting pig, flipping over a beautifully grilled steak or arranging charcoal on the lid of a Dutch oven. But the uses don’t stop at the campfire ring. Take a look at a few other ideas of how your Expedition Tongs can come in handy both at home and on the road.

Use as a salad sever when it’s not classy enough to use your hands.

Grab a beer without getting your entire arm cold. by Overland Now

Don’t burn your fingers on that tea! by Overland Now

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Impress your friends with a new modern art sculpture. Great for coffee tables.

Juice a lemon or lime, without having to find where you put your actual juicer.

Pull wine corks that some sober person wedged too deep into a half drunk bottle of booze.

Construct the perfect campfire.

Play a quick game of golf on the beach. Hit the seagull for a hole-in-one.

Move extra gooey cinnamon buns to your plate without getting your fingers all sticky.

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

Rotate kebabs and corn on the cob without burning your arm hairs.

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

Retrieve keys out of your locked car, but only when the window is slightly ajar.

Because sometimes reaching for that glass IS just too much effort. Song of the Road

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

Catch crabs. Live or dead. It doesn’t matter.

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.

“Cooking with them from my Life Remotely cookbook” (page #162) Song of the Road

Finally figure out what that chain on the ceiling fan does.

Move raw meat to a pan without having to get raw meat goobers on your fingers.

Scratch those hard to reach places.

Expedition Tongs are great for picking up interesting stones….Portland to Patagonia

Dispose of your cat’s latest “gift” in the fire.

Reach objects that fall behind your fridge. Or at least discover what that smell is.

Handle food in the oven.

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

Remove toast from the toaster. Pro tip: Unplug toaster first.

Push elevator buttons no matter how many people stand in front of you.

Handle food on the grill.

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

I don’t always pass a beer, but when I do it’s with Expedition Tongs. Song of the Road

Use as extend-o-matic to keep from losing your ice-cream in your giant beard. Lost World Expedition

Use in place of a fork when carving a big piece of meat.

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

Become a stealthy pick pocket* * Illegal pretty much everywhere.

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.