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The giblet bag is a part more likely contaminated, and emptying the sealed bag in boiling water to cook is the cure if you like giblets. After reaching a certain temp you are then able to remove the giblet package with tongs, using a fork can break the bag. If not removed the bag will later break at higher temperatures. Another use for tongs is to remove the giblets pack from a partially roasted frozen turkey. Locking tongs help make removal an easy task.Non locking tongs can be temporarily made to lock with rubber band around the handle grip. Google about the problem and warnings from government agencies. Turkeys set out to thaw in fridge or on counter can leave very dangerous contamination which can be deadly. The solution is to keep bird frozen and then put directly into oven.
The length makes it easy to get food from the back of the grill. The locking mechanism works great and is in the right place on the tongs. These tongs have nice teeth to grab food with out tearing. I don't know how long the black grips will last but the metla on the tongs has nice finish and very thick.
I highly recommend these if you're looking for longer tongs. Easy to use and extremely useful for grilling. A great Oxo product that does exactly what you want it to do - they're easy to open and close and the longer reach is great for extra reach on our large grill and our smoker.
Tongs are absolutely essential in the kitchen, and these are the best you can buy. You just pop in back in and they continue to work perfectly. The locking mechanism works very well and is really useful for tongs. Well, my spring popped out right at the end of year 3 of using these guys.
The ends of the spring may over time slowly slide out near the opening where the rubber is secured. Apparently these people just gave up after it popped out. At the top of the handle there are holes in the steel where the rubber grips are attached (they lock into the holes). If that happens you just push the wire back in and secure the rubber over it. The spring pushes against this rubber- this is how the tongs are forced open when unlocked. Solid stainless steel with a soft rubber grip.
The spring is simply a tightly coiled piece of wire with long ends. I seriously did this once in 3 years and it took me less than 90 seconds, and I haven't had to do it since.Don't let those reviews deter you- these are the best tongs money can buy. Locking tongs are much better than tying a rubber band around non-locking tongs, which is something that Alton Brown of all people suggested in his "Gear" book (I tried that for a while and it was very inconvenient- seriously Alton).There are some reviews that say the spring mechanism pops out. Guess what.
But these will do in the meantime. I'm probably going to buy another pair simply because I'm looking for something that comes close to the ones we lost. I bought these to replace a pair of tongs that I'd lost. I was disappointed to find that these tongs were so lightweight and the spring isn't very strong.
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