Heavy-Duty. Commercial Quality.
Highly recommend these tongs. Good alignment and one of the few that allow locking and unlocking with one hand. 9" is a good length and probably the shortest one would want. I bought one of these to replace a similar tool that was 25 years old and is now retired. I was so impressed with the quality at this price that I bought two more and gave one to my son.
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Heavy duty!
I'm a huge fan of tongs with rings, because it keeps them easy to store and retrieve from a drawer, but it's not a locking mechanism that requires two hands to operate (such as pull style ones, eg OXO) or a counterintuitive up-down magic latch (forever accidentally locking those or unable to remember how to unlock them under pressure of something needing a turn *rightnow* ugh). Ring closures are the way to go IMHO, only many options in this style suffer from EXTREMELY cheap build quality.Not these! They're a great weight, have a strong, coiled spring, and the rivet holding them together is crimped AND capped instead of just curled outwards like other pairs I've had (this has been main the point of failure for this style, in my experience). I'll update if they have any performance problems down the road, but I doubt they will: this is clearly an industrial quality item.Edit: the springs in these are so beefy that they make my hands tired to use them for very long. I'd say oh well, this is just a fault of my grip strength, EXCEPT: I'm a woman with "man hands" - as in, like, the hubs had to order a custom size for my engagement ring, I can't wear women's glove sizes, etc -- for a woman, these are absolute bear paws. 🫣 This means there are going to be a lot of women who can't operate these tongs without a lot of discomfort. I can still use them ok, so I consider this an acceptable tradeoff for the quality/won't deduct a star for it, but take this facet into consideration if your hand strength isn't the best.
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Sturdy tongs!
These are a nice sturdy tong with some weight to them. They are stainless steel. Not flimsy like the aluminum ones.
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no information on it
i didn't use it yet but not written on it that it's stainless still , and i got it just because they said online that it is
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Debbie Malsberger
December 30, 2025
Fantastic quality
Absolutely love the quality of these tongs. Very heavy duty do not bend can handle heavy use. Strongly recommend.
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Impressive
I can't believe I've received something from Amazon that is actually a quality product. These tongs are seriously, restaurant quality. They are very thick, heavy gauge stainless steel and the spring feels very strong. WINCO has definitely won me over and as a chef of over 45 years, impressing me is not an easy task. Because of the quality of these tongs, I have purchased several other WINCO items and all are equally impressive and I will continue to buy WINCO products whenever I see them as a choice. Great value at any price.
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Jessica
September 11, 2025
Not really worth it honestly. The locking thing slides so the tongs won’t stay open.
It’s not the best quality. The material is thin so it’s light, and the piece that keeps the tongs open/locked slides down making it almost impossible to actually use them as they’re intended to be used. The stainless feels cheap.
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