How to Give Your Kitchen Tongs More Grip
Photo: Claire Lower
Removing glass jars from hot water, be it a boiling canning bath or a lower-temp sous-vide situation, always feels a little dangerous. The concern, of course, is dropping the jar. Even if it doesn’t break, dropping a jar from any height can cause the hot water to splash, and hot water has been known to burn human flesh. To avoid all this pain and suffering, you just need to make the tongs more grippy, and you can do this easily with rubber bands.
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