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BBQ tongs debacle

BBQ tongs debacle

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25 years ago I bought the ultimate set of BBQ tongs, and the missus has lost them.

These were no ordinary tongs; they were the classic flat based lower arm with the required top arm gripper. Neatly inlaid with wood to dissipate heat and the perfect length to balance heat-to-hand avoidance with precise flame-food management.

25 years of effective garden food grilling is now lost due to excessive and poorly documented tidy-uppery.

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@diver said
25 years ago I bought the ultimate set of BBQ tongs, and the missus has lost them.

These were no ordinary tongs; they were the classic flat based lower arm with the required top arm gripper. Neatly inlaid with wood to dissipate heat and the perfect length to balance heat-to-hand avoidance with precise flame-food management.

25 years of effective garden food grilling is now lost due to excessive and poorly documented tidy-uppery.
Sounds like grounds for a divorce 😲

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this is a job for

THE VEGANIST

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Over here, that would get yer wife 3 to 5 in the county jail!

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It could have been worse - your wife could have gone lost after 25 years of effective garden food grilling.

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@diver said
25 years ago I bought the ultimate set of BBQ tongs, and the missus has lost them.

These were no ordinary tongs; they were the classic flat based lower arm with the required top arm gripper. Neatly inlaid with wood to dissipate heat and the perfect length to balance heat-to-hand avoidance with precise flame-food management.

25 years of effective garden food grilling is now lost due to excessive and poorly documented tidy-uppery.
Perhaps she lent them to a neighbour…and forgot?🤔

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@diver said
25 years ago I bought the ultimate set of BBQ tongs, and the missus has lost them.

These were no ordinary tongs; they were the classic flat based lower arm with the required top arm gripper. Neatly inlaid with wood to dissipate heat and the perfect length to balance heat-to-hand avoidance with precise flame-food management.

25 years of effective garden food grilling is now lost due to excessive and poorly documented tidy-uppery.
These things should always be left, for safe keeping, in one of your man sheds.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
These things should always be left, for safe keeping, in one of your man sheds.
As well as your wife... 🙂

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@Torunn said
As well as your wife... 🙂
The spiders keep her out.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
These things should always be left, for safe keeping, in one of your man sheds.
I have searched the shed thoroughly. No grill tongs here. I can offer three different rose shears, however.

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@moonbus said
I have searched the shed thoroughly. No grill tongs here. I can offer three different rose shears, however.
I have three spades, all identical.

No idea why.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
I have three spades, all identical.

No idea why.
Well, then you have 3/5 of a flush. But, being identical, they must have come from three separate decks. Definitely not in Hoyle !

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As domestic tensions continue to escalate the husband has confirmed that the historic tongs have still not been located.

Elsewhere the wife used an alternative set of modern, albeit less functional and less heritage-oriented tongs to cook steak today and with some success … so it has been claimed.

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PS “tidy-uppery” is now trademarked 😄