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Amco Stainless-Steel and Nylon Locking Tongs | 
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| Brand: Amco
Buy New: $8.99
Rating:  11 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 1.5 x 1.5
MPN: 8136
Model: 8136
UPC: 019578120911
EAN: 0019578120911
ASIN: B00004RFJ7
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Locking mechanism for easy storage | | • | Rustproof 18/8 stainless-steel handle | | • | Heat-resistant nylon tongs | | • | 12-inch length | | • | Smooth edges won't damage food |
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Amazon.com Review
Whether you're grilling chicken, steaming corn on the cob, or serving salad, these tongs are sure to be helpful. With a durable, rustproof, stainless-steel handle and nylon tips, which resist heat up to 400 degrees, this tool is ideal for lifting and flipping hot foods. Plus, its 12-inch length lets you keep your distance from a sizzling grill or a boiling pot of water. In addition, smooth grips along the tongs' edges allow you to easily pick up tender meat without piercing it. But maybe the most handy feature these tongs offer is their locking mechanism. By pushing down the ring at the top of the handle you lock the tongs into a closed position, making it easy to store them in a drawer or transport them to a barbecue. To open, simply pull up on the ring. --Cristina Vaamonde
Product Description
A heavy duty helper in the kitchen, these Locking Tongs are both practical and great looking -- from their sturdy, shiny 18/8 stainless steel handles to their non-scratching nylon heads. The tong's thick nylon is guaranteed to never scratch your cookware's interiors, and withstands temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. And once you've finished cooking, the attached ring lets you display them on your utensil rack.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 What's a kitchen without a good pair of tongs? April 13, 2007
NickatNite2003
A kitchen that has a cook that burns their fingers a lot.
 Nylon Locking Tongs March 19, 2007
Reviewer Mary (Little Falls, NJ United States)
It serves the purpose that it was designed for but a little flimsy for my taste.
 They don't lock?! January 15, 2007
A. Barrett (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw these tongs while browsing and noticed the great review. I was looking for nylon tongs, since I had recently purchased a nice set of stainless steel cookware.
Well, when I got them home, I realized they did not LOCK! I didn't thick of this while reviewing different tongs - I thought it was a default to have tongs that locked.
Aside from not locking, they were awkward to use. They were too large to handle shrimp or thin cuts of meat.
After a few months I tossed these for a nice set of nylon OXO tongs, which LOCK and work well for all types of meats and usage.
Amco Stainless-Steel and Nylon Locking Tongs February 21, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
They are acceptable as one can use them w/ non-stick cookware. They were the only tongs I was able to find for use w/ non-stick cookware, when I ordered them last year.
They do not grip well at all: the "gripping" parts shift when you try to grip something. They also have really sharp edges on all the stainless steel parts. I expected a better quality from the Amco brand. BTW, the locking mechanism works just the opposite than most other "regular" tongs I have used + the mechanism also unexpectedly disengages by itself...
 Don't know how I managed without it July 27, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After purchasing this quite a while ago from Amazon and after almost daily use since then ::: [1] It's THE SAFEST utensil that this older, rather unsteady, & quite short woman has found so far to handle ANY hot foods cooking on any flat surface. -- Just for one example : I oven-char many veggies before using in a recipe : eggplant, tomatoes, garlic, onions, etc. The idea is to blacken & blister the veggies' skin all over under the oven broiler, so it then comes off very easily after a brief icewater bath. -- For me, it's better if I can rotate the veggies while they're still under the broiler, rather than having to pull the broiler pan in & out to do it. Well, before I tried these tongs it was always either my oven mitt or ME, not the veggies, which got the most charring-blackening-blistering during the rotating process! [2] In answer to a previous reviewer's difficulty using the tongs with regular metal (not nonstick) pans: We have sets of both types of pans. These tongs WILL work perfectly with regular metal pans IF you apply a very light spray or coating of some sort on the pan. -- Our choice is always a good-quality olive oil [the Misto sprayer sold here at Amazon does a fantastic & quick job of delivering a truly LIGHT coating of any oil]. However, a very small amount of any cooking oil or even butter, spread around with a paper towel as the metal pan is just beginning to warm, will also do the trick. -- Let's face it, nothing but a heavy hand with a heavy spatula is gonna pry a pork chop off a metal surface on or under high heat! [3] This and especially its shorter companions (which were also available at one time here at Amazon too, not sure if they still are) make very good-looking & easy-to-use SERVING utensils AT THE TABLE, for various kinds of salads, for bread or rolls, for chops or small steaks, in fact for just about anything that's not 'liquidy'. -- The locking feature helps them take up much less room in or atop a serving dish or actually on the table than one would think. -- AND, if you want spoon-rests or "TONG-RESTS" for the business end of these things : Try a pretty set of those shallow long/narrow corn-on-the-cob serving dishes! They work perfectly for either tabletop or stovetop.
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