Peek into many fine dining kitchens and you are sure to see the chef or sous chef using long-handled food-grade stainless steel cooking tweezers for precision finishing of a plate.
Recently, though, I was at a friend’s house and he was using those same professional kitchen tweezers to turn sliced vegetables on the grill. Brilliant!
So often I have struggled to move and turn smaller or more delicate ingredients with traditional tongs so these ultra-fine-tipped tweezers made a ton of sense. As soon as I got home I immediately started looking for a set online and ultimately settled on this dual set of 12-inch tweezers, one with the traditional fine tips and one with wider, flattened tips. There are countless other similar cooking tweezers found here on Amazon.
Features
The full list of features for this dual set includes:
- Extra long (12-inches) handles for protection against the high heat of the grill
- Food-grade stainless steel with a carbonation coating to eliminate the threat of rust
- One fine-tipped pair for smaller food and/or precision plating
- One flat-tipped pair for grasping larger items
- Serrated tips that make it easier to grip food tighter
- Grooves on the handle to minimize slippage
- Rounded ends to protect pots, pans, and griddle tops from scratching
The results? I found them to be so impressive that I now use them much more frequently than traditional long-handled tongs. My wife also fell in love with them so we bought a second set for the kitchen. It was there that I discovered yet another use for them — adding, moving, and removing smaller food from the deep fryer. They are also helpful when reaching in and flipping food in a smaller toaster oven or air fryer.
The pricing is also quite reasonable, with the bulk of the cooking tweezers on Amazon listed at under $20 (and many under $10). All of that said, I give this pair of stainless steel cooking tweezers our AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal.
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