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.

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.

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

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

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

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

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

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

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

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

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

Handle food in the oven.

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

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

Handle food on the grill.

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

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

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

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

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

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

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

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

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

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

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

Construct the perfect campfire.

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

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

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

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

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

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

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

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

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

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

Scratch those hard to reach places.

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