OXO Good Grips 9-Inch Locking Tongs with Nylon Heads
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips 9-Inch Locking Tongs with Nylon Heads
Customer Review: OXO GOOD GRIPS 9-INCH LOCKIN TONGS/NYLON HEAD
Summary: 4 Stars
THESE TONGS ARE THEY HANDLE WELL AND NO PROBLEM WITH STORING THEM, DUE TO THE LOCK MECHANISM.
THANKS OXO!!!!!!
Customer Review: Great Grip!
Summary: 4 Stars
Works and looks great! Holds things very well. I would have preferred metal tips but these do work surprisingly well.Customer Review: Great tongs, with a flawed head design
Summary: 3 Stars
Product: Oxo Good Grips 9-inch Locking Tongs with Nylon Heads
Rating: 3/5 stars
I had high hopes for these tongs, after seeing them recommended on America's Test Kitchen. They are indeed very ergonomic, attractive, and nice to use, but they have a significant flaw.
LIKES:
* Very nice ergonomic design.
* Helpful locking pull-tab, with hanging hole.
* Soft tips that are friendly to non-stick pans.
DISLIKES:
* NYLON HEADS: Oxo's use of nylon, instead of silicone, for the heads is a significant design blunder that costs it a full 1.5 stars, IMO. A temp of 400F may sound like a lot, but it's an entirely commonplace temperature when you're sauteing/browning, shallow frying, or grilling (ex: chicken cutlets, cubed meat for stew, bacon, etc.), and if you expose these tongs for a fraction of a second too long, the tips can melt, ruining both the tongs and whatever you're cooking ... which IMO is a significant flaw. That pretty much eliminates these tongs from use for many, but not all, sauteeing tasks.
* ROUNDED TEETH: Another design flaw (this one minor) is the rounded teeth of the heads, which compromises the ability of these tongs to grasp and lift anything other than small soft items. For example, just a few minutes ago, I tried to remove a smoked pork hock from a pot of broth, and despite ample hand strength it still jumped out of the tongs and splashed stock in all directions. Trying to compensate by turning the tongs, so that one head is below that's being lifted helps slightly, but causes liquid to pool in the handle shaft, which leaks out when you transfer whatever you're moving to another pan or bowl. The tongs would have benefitted from edgier heads that are better at gripping firmish and/or slippery items.
Bottom line: These tongs are an example of a good idea suffering from poor execution. If they'd gotten the head material and teeth design right, I'd probably have given these a 4.5/5. Hopefully OXO will redo the design to correct these flaws, but in the meantime, I find them flawed, overrated, and NOT recommended for anything except low temperature use with small soft food items.
Customer Review: It's Okay
Summary: 3 Stars
Just received it and noticed it was a bit shorter than I thought, I am unsure if I could use it for cooking with my wok, I imagine I could burnt my hands since it's a bit short and while holding it, my hand is next to edge of the wok.Customer Review: Oxo Good Grips
Summary: 3 Stars
We used to buy this product at the church.
I bought these for our church.
But old one had a problem about black rubber.
ond side of black rubber took out from stainless body.
But still it works.