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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

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

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

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

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

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

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

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

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

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

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

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

Scratch those hard to reach places.

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

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

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

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

Handle food on the grill.

Handle food in the oven.

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

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

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

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

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

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

Construct the perfect campfire.

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

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

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

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

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

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