tongs

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Use clean tongs, cutting boards and plates for serving cooked food.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2024

And in 2021, F1 had one of its greatest-ever seasons with Mercedes and Red Bull going at it hammer and tongs with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

Ms. Tapia has been looking for her son, Gustavo Daryl, since he was abducted in 2018 from his food stand, apron on and grill tongs in hand.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Using tongs, grab 5 to 7 chunks of chicken tikka and distribute the pieces over the chana masala.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2024

I offered, “I could hold the tongs and coal.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson