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Zyliss' Cook-n-Serve tongs have several standout features that make them different from almost every other kind of cooking tongs: 1) lock and unlock with your thumb in normal operating position. Most other tongs have the lock at the butt end as part of the hanging loop. This makes locking and unlocking a two handed operation. With the Zyliss it's an effortless one handed operation. 2) The arms of the tongs curve inwards towards the tips aggressively creating a cradle of space between the tips and the body of the arms. The allows you to pick up larger pieces of food, or bigger bunches of small items, like great wads of pasta. 3) The tips are silicone with much better heat tolerance than nylon which melts at common pan temperatures. Silicon isn't rigid, however, so most silicon tipped tongs are thick and have a clumsy feel. The Zyliss tongs are better than most because they use a thin coating of silicon over well shaped pointed metal tips plus they have some molded in nubs which grip food. The pointed tips allow you to better handle small items. All in all, these are my second favorite kitchen tongs behind the Oxo Good Grips nylon tipped ones (because the Good Grips ones have better feel and better fine control) although I don't like the Oxo's traditional butt mounted locking mechanism. The Zyliss tongs handle larger items better, however, and are more useful in a wider range of circumstances because of their shape and more heat tolerance silicon tips. Zyliss tongs' overall design is more modern and cutting edge. These are extremely good kitchen tongs you will not be disappointed.

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Once in awhile a product or service comes along, and it exceeds all of your expectations. I found the Zyliss tongs to be one of these products.

The rubber grips fit your hand perfectly and do not slide about. The rubber slider button is located right where your thumb rests so when you grab your tongs all you do is flick your thumb slightly forward, and the tongs open and are ready to use. To store the tongs, squeeze the arms shut, slide the thumb-button toward you, and they are locked shut.

The arms of the tongs are made of nicely brushed stainless steel. The shape of these arms is sort of a swoop very graceful looking. But there is also a functional reason for the shape. Since all aspects of the arms are curved, there are no sharp angles that make cleaning the insides of the arms difficult. Swish a dishwashing brush over the tops and then over the insides, rinse, and you are done. The shape of the arms also adds to the strength and rigidity so you can grip heavier items like cobs of corn without any flexing or loss of grip.

The silicon-rubber gripper pads have a shape that follows the curves of the arms and are not symmetrical. The bottom edge that contacts your frying pan or other cooking surface is almost straight and at an angle. This allows a person to hold the tongs in a natural position and still grab small pieces of food that are lying flat on the cooking surface. (To prove this to myself, I tested the tongs by repeatedly grabbing a split peanut, and it easily grabbed and held onto it every time. O.K. how about a small kernel of popcorn? Again it worked perfectly.) The bottom edges of the pads are slanted slightly inward so that when you grip something the edges tend to slide a little bit under the piece of food, or if you cock the tongs a bit, you can slide the tong all the way under a burger for flipping or serving. I haven't tried it yet, but I think these tongs would also be perfect for serving things like asparagus. The inside surface of the gripper pads are concave to help grip things like eggs and stir-fry. Along the inside bottom edges of the gripper pads are a series of molded-in bumps, starting with a tiny one in the front and progressively getting a little bigger back towards you. They seem to be very effective in gripping even greasy meats in a frying pan. I like my tongs better than a fork for cooking and serving meats. I don't have to shake the tongs to get them to release their hold on the meat like a fork sometimes does. The rubber pads also have an ob-round hole in them. I don't know if this adds to the grip on some things, or maybe it is just to make them look a little cutesier.

If you are like me, I'll bet that you too will enjoy using the Zyliss tongs. And, I'll bet that you will find yourself using them for tasks for which you previously had to use various other kitchen tools spatulas, stirring spoons, salad tongs, or serving forks. Enjoy.

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They guillotine the tips of your fingers when closing. Take a close look at the design; now compare it to old-school tongs. The zyliss tongs close like scissors. Imagine your finger tips caught in the 'blades.'

My other kitchen tongs close like tweezers there is always airspace between the 2 tongs.

I would not allow children to use these.

UPDATE:

I contacted Zyliss (1/2011). These tongs were redesigned 5 years ago to fix the pinching problem. Zyliss sent a free replacement within the week of the redesigned tongs.

It is not possible to pinch your fingers with the new design. The Image shown on Amazon is the OLD design

They are excellent for handling hot delicate items they work just like hands.

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Great tongs, silicone tip and can be locked in closed position. I've had mine for at least 7+ years before

the silicone went. I got a new one, exactly the same.

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Over the past several decades I must have bought a dozen tongs. This Zyliss is the best by far. I bought two because I use them that often and they work brilliantly for stirring spaghetti, turning meat in hot oil, picking out a piece of pasta to bite it and see if it's done. Try these tongs, you won't be sorry!