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.

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

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

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

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

Handle food on the grill.

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

Construct the perfect campfire.

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

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

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.

Handle food in the oven.

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

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

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

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

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

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

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

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

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

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

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

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

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

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

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

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

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

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

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

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

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

Scratch those hard to reach places.

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

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

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.