Trongs: making finger food less messy.

Summer is undoubtedly the time of BBQ goodness and the greasy food that goes with it. And you always find yourself needing a hefty supply of tissues to wipe your hands on afterwards (especially if you’re the person who smothers their kebabs in sauce). Well, kiss goodbye to the days of sucking spilt tomato ketchup from your knuckles with the Trongs.

Trongs look a lot like birds feet. Three pointy bits of plastic with ‘teeth’ like ends which somehow make it ok to eat with your fingers. Mothers all over the world will hate them for teaching little Oregano to eschew the knife and fork and dig in with his hands. But oh well. They do look surprisingly fun…

Actually, since they don’t appear to cover more than the first bend of your fingers I can imagine they’d be much cleaner than just picking the food up anyway. They’d certainly be no cleaner than using, say, a fork (you know, that thing with the long handle that keeps your hand far away from the food?) But yes, that would rather take away the guilty pleasure of picking up your food.

They’re not just designed for eating with it seems though. The video featured on Craziest Gadgets also makes the point that they’re good for food prep too. Don’t like handling raw meat? You don’t have to with Trongs. Trying to dish up fiddly slices of meat? Save getting your sweaty hands all over everyone’s sandwich fillers with Trongs. I think the food prep angle is much more use than the food eating angle actually!

Admittedly, it does seem to be one of those gimmicky WTF gadgets which seem destined to eventually appear at Poundland. They would have their uses- you can eat potentially messy food and text at the same time is a good point some users make- but I think I’ll stick to getting my fingers saucy.

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