Review of Weber Style 6441 Professional-Grade Chef's Tongs

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This a good, sturdy set of tongs, good length and comfortable to hold. If I could change them, though, I would do something about the tips. In my opinion, they are bent inwards too much--you end picking things up w/ just the tips rather than the whole grabber, which can lead to torn meat. Weber should know better! Also, I think I prefer the sliding tong lock to this pull mechanism. Works fine now, but I worry that down the road it will get loose and start locking while I am using them; that would be very frustrating. But, so far so good.

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I purchased these tongs and everything is great, EXCEPT that the end of the tongs where you grab the meat is cupped rather than almost flat making grabbing certain things like some chicken wings, hot dogs, and smaller items very diifcult to grab tightly and makes it difficult to turn smaller items.

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I decided to try these after being frustrated at the thin, wimpy tongs available at most stores.

As other have said these are very sturdy, made with a much thicker gage of stainless steel than usual. The should last a long, long time.

However, I wasn't happy with the shape of the tongs gripping surface. Too much of a 'vee' front to back and kinda flat at the back. If you try to pick up a burger or other meat from a grill, you'll puncture it with the tip before you get a good grip on it. (I don't know how Weber considers this shape to be optimal.)

As shipped, the tip is more of a 'pincer' than any other tong I've owned. Weber must think that it enhances grasping small objects like shrimp or asparagus, but I find the shape just plain wrong. The vee is so angled that only if you pick up something 5-6" across are the tips contacting all the way along the head. If you like to pick up burgers, steaks, and chicken by laying the tongs flat on the grill and pick thing up from the sides, these are your tongs. If you pick up things by sliding one tip under the food and gripping the top, these are simply the wrong shape.

After trying them, I went into my shop and put each tip over a 1 1/2" oak dowel for a mandrel and beat the tips into shape with a rubber mallet, patterning the shape after other tongs. I flattened the front to back angle to about 1/3 of the original and made each tip more concave as well so the back 'teeth' bite better. Now I can pick up a typical burger and steak with the tip contacting the whole length of the tong head, not just at the tip. Yet after modifying them, they still work good when 'side-gripping' as well, so I can't say I like Weber's design. At least they can be re-formed to ones own preference.

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Perfect heavy duty tongs needed for grilling. They are very sturdy and are plenty long enough to keep you from getting burned. Excellent grip on the tips make sure there are no accidents.

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Anybody that grills knows that the tongs are the indispensable tool; turning your phallic meats, delicate veggies, devastating steaks, and anything else non-patty formed.

Unfortunately, anyone that grills also knows that the average pair of kitchen tongs leave your hands burnt or at the very least, looking sunburnt because of the close proximity to flame.

So after one long summer day that left me with ring and watch marks, I decided to pursue the perfect 16" tongs, and these are it.

It's not mentioned in the product description, but these bad boys are a full 16" length like the ones by Lodge Lodge Camp Dutch Oven 16-Inch Stainless Steel Tongs, but unlike those, these have a rubberized grip so as the tongs get hot, your hands don't.

What's also great is that they don't fool around with "grips" on the actual tongs. I had a pair of "BBQ" 16" tongs from Crate & Barrel and the tips were not high-temp compatible and so married my meat and grill grate in a melted elope of disgrace. I'm sure there are high-temp tips, but coals and grills reach temperatures I'm not confident about unless it's pure steel.

Another problem I came across with other 16" tongs, was that the grips would bend and weaken over time. The longer your tongs, the sturdier the ends have to be to withstand the pressure from levering meat. If you're a veteran griller who's used cheap tongs, you know what I mean. You try to grip your grillable and the tongs just bend outward. These do not. You could use these tongs as small baseball bats.

And as you might've guessed, these tongs leave my hands far and away from the direct heat. No longer are my hands pink after a day of grilling.