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 valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

Construct the perfect campfire.

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

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

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

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

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

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

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

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

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

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

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

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scratch those hard to reach places.

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Handle food in the oven.

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

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

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

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

Handle food on the grill.

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

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

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

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

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

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.

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

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

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

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

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

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia