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.

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

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

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

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

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

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

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

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

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

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

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

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

Handle food on the grill.

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

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

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

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

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

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

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

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

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

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

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

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

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

Handle food in the oven.

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

Construct the perfect campfire.

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

Scratch those hard to reach places.

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

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

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

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

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

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

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.