serving tongs

Dish transfer tool

Serving tongs are a hinged utensil with two arms joined at one end, used to grasp and transfer food: She used the serving tongs to place salad on each plate.

Longer and often more decorative than kitchen tongs, they appear at buffets, salad bars, and dinner tables where guests serve themselves.

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salad bar · pinch · scalloped · stainless · grip · platter · dinner party · ice · ice bucket · squeeze · clamp · kitchen · metal · barbecue · hot coals · pasta · reach · silver

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Flat-bladed kitchen tool

serving spoon · ladle · cake server · pie server · fish slice

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G