Mercer Culinary 18-8 Stainless Steel Precision Plus Chef Plating Tong, Straight,9-3/8 Inch

Solid and looks great! Works as intended and would get you compliments when you whip this out cooking for friends. Instant chef status!

These Culinary tongs are very useful in many situations where your fingers are too big or you don't want to burn yourself picking things out off hot sauces or soups. I use a lot of lemons squeezed into sauces and there is always 1 or 2 seeds that end up in the cooking sauce. You can zero in on 1 or 2 tiny seeds without a struggle or burning yourself and also helps from getting frustrated by not being able to spoon it out. You'll find many other uses as time goes on. Glad I have these tongs for those situations that would normally drive me crazy!

I purchased the Mercer Culinary Straight Precision Plus Chef Plating Tong, 11-3/4 Inch, Stainless.Yes, that’s the "Precision Plus" version.I’ve owned a few plating tweezers/tongs but this one from Mercer is top notch quality. It’s got a good weight with cross grips for easy and controlled handling. The inside tips are serrated so your food won’t fall off. The steel is stiff yet bendable enough to allow for some movement. It comes with a removable rubber notch / “ring” at the base for hanging. I don’t hang my tweezers. I just lay them flat inside my drawer or stick it in my knife block. But I’ll keep the rubber rings attached because they look cool.The Mercer tweezers makes a nice “show-off” tool when I entertain. This basically replaces my cooking chopsticks. I mainly use tweezers for noodles, zoodles (zucchini noodles), picking up/turning over small pieces of meat, chicken wings or veggies. If you need more precision then get the shorter/smaller version. But since I’m a home cook and don’t need fine plating. The 11-3/4 version works fine for me.For a few more dollars, get the "Precision Plus" version. You won’t be disappointed with these Mercer tweezers. (I’ll post photos with my review).

Ugh I love this little tool so much. It has helped me scoop pasta up to my plate in a fancy way, garnish my plate with tiny herbs/aromatics and pick pickled chilis from glass jars onto plate. I love it

Just recieved the Precision Plus Tongs M35244 by Mercer Culinary for $20+ today and unfortunately they are a real disappointment in regards to craftsmanship and quality control. As you can see in the photos, the tong tips are not even the same size; the one on the right being thicker and slightly longer. Running a finger along the inside flat length of the tongs one can feel pitting and bumps left behind by the forging process. Welding bumps where the tong blade suddenly goes from thin to much fatter have not been smoothed out.But most the glaring and ineffective point is that the tips do not close tightly together, leaving a gap (as seen in 2 photos). I own other Mercer tools and have had no issue with them. Because of the poor craftsmanship these tongs should have never passed quality control. Yes, they'll be going back.UPDATE: Mercer corrected the problem while tweezers were en route back to them with outstanding customer service and a product with the build quality I'm accustomed to from them. Thank you.

The tweezers are fine, but their grip is abysmal, and they are too long for precision plating, so they are in a weird middle ground in between plating and sauté tweezers and it’s not particularly good at either.

I can still use them for a lot of things, but they don't open very far and the tips don't grab onto things as much as I'd like. But I'm very glad to have them in the kitchen.

They are nice tweezers. I would love them if it didn't take every muscle in my hand to press them closed. I played around bending them in various ways to try breaking them in but I'm just going to cut my loss and find a new one.

la calidad es muy buena para la preparación de alimentos

Capaz de segurar itens mais pesados e fácil de manusear. Tenho usado na fritura de itens empanados, pegando pelas pontas, sem qualquer problema.

Llegaron antes de lo que esperaba, me han servido mucho. Estoy muy contento

Es una herramienta muy útil para el montaje de platillos y presentación de coctéles. El tamaño es algo grande pero ayuda a que se tenga un poco de distancia de la mano con el alimento y así se coloca con cuidado. Se lava fácil.

I saw Devan use these and wanted a pair. So far I have used them to gently turn the bacon. I found they gripped the bacon easily, performed the function. Now I just have to use them to sugar some leaves, like Devan does. My husband still wants to know who Devan is!!Maybe I can use them as a serving utensil for thinly sliced items at our next dinner party - LOL.