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.
Catch crabs. Live or dead. It doesn’t matter.
Pick up hard boiled eggs.
Handle food on the grill.
Rotate kebabs and corn on the cob without burning your arm hairs.
Retrieve keys out of your locked car, but only when the window is slightly ajar.
I don’t always pass a beer, but when I do it’s with Expedition Tongs. Song of the Road
Handle food in the oven.
Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.
Remove toast from the toaster. Pro tip: Unplug toaster first.
Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.
“Cooking with them from my Life Remotely cookbook” (page #162) Song of the Road
Play a quick game of golf on the beach. Hit the seagull for a hole-in-one.
Become a stealthy pick pocket*
* Illegal pretty much everywhere.
Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.
Reach objects that fall behind your fridge. Or at least discover what that smell is.
Help short people reach the top shelf items too.
Dispose of your cat’s latest “gift” in the fire.
Move raw meat to a pan without having to get raw meat goobers on your fingers.
Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road
Rearrange little bits of charcoal
Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.
Construct the perfect campfire.
Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now
Juice a lemon or lime, without having to find where you put your actual juicer.
Use as a salad sever when it’s not classy enough to use your hands.
Don’t burn your fingers on that tea! by Overland Now
Finally figure out what that chain on the ceiling fan does.
Expedition Tongs are great for picking up interesting stones….Portland to Patagonia
Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.
Use as extend-o-matic to keep from losing your ice-cream in your giant beard. Lost World Expedition
Impress your friends with a new modern art sculpture. Great for coffee tables.
A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia
Because sometimes reaching for that glass IS just too much effort. Song of the Road
Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.
Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.
Move charchoal without buring hour hands
Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.
Pull wine corks that some sober person wedged too deep into a half drunk bottle of booze.
Grab a beer without getting your entire arm cold. by Overland Now
Scratch those hard to reach places.
Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.
Push elevator buttons no matter how many people stand in front of you.
Use in place of a fork when carving a big piece of meat.
Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.
Move extra gooey cinnamon buns to your plate without getting your fingers all sticky.