ice tongs
Bartender's cold pincers
Ice tongs are a handheld tool with two hinged arms ending in pointed or serrated tips, used to grip and lift blocks of ice.
Before refrigerators became common, ice tongs were essential household items for handling ice delivered to homes.
Today they appear mainly in bars for handling ice cubes: He used the ice tongs to drop cubes into each glass.
- gripSecure manual hold
- metalHard conductive solid
- clampDevice for holding tight
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- barDrinking establishment
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- tongs
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- barwarecocktail shaker, shaker, muddler, bar spoon, jigger
- ice tradeicehouses, iceboxes, delivery routes, cold chain
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- barware collectiblesbeer glasses, pint glasses, coasters, bottle openers, cocktail shakers
gripping vs. scooping mechanism
ice tongsice scoop
Tool for transferring cubes
scoop · ladle · ice dispenser