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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rearrange little bits of charcoal

Construct the perfect campfire.

Pickup litter without the risk of contracting a disease.

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

Squeeze an avocado to make perfect pre-mashed guacamole.

Dispose of poison apples by Overland Now

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

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

Cancel your cable and add antennas instead.

Retrieve valuables from the garbage disposal without risking fingers.

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

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

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

Dominate the Dutch over cook-off Song of the Road

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

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

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

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.

A not very accurate measuring stickPortland to Patagonia

Scratch those hard to reach places.

Help short people reach the top shelf items too.

Lift up firewood to check for scorpions and spiders.

Rearrange logs in a fireplace or wood stove.

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

Handle food on the grill.

Pick up someones dirty undies while maintaining a safe distance.

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

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.

Pick up used tissues without picking up a cold.

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

Pick up hard boiled eggs.

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

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

Stir your favorite Dutch oven meal.

Handle food in the oven.

Remove pot lids, especially those made out of metal.

Move charchoal without buring hour hands