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.

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

Handle food in the oven.

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

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

Scratch those hard to reach places.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

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

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

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

Handle food on the grill.

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

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

Move charchoal without buring hour hands

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

Construct the perfect campfire.

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

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

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

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

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

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

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

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

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

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

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

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

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

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

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

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.