JB Prince Straight Tip Tweezer - 10 inch

I own the Mercer 6" offset tweezer, the Rösle 12.2" and now these JB Prince 10". As a cook in the kitchen every day, the quality of my tools matter. All three are good quality but there are noticeable differences in firmness of closure. To test this, I put them all on a gram scale and weighed how many grams of force would be needed for the tips to "close" (this is not related to the amount of force needed to actually hold an item, as that would depend on the item's weight - and will be significantly more). I pressed all three from the lowest point of the finger grips. The Mercer's took 2100g to close; the Rösle's took 1800g to close, while the JB Prince took 350g. That's a big difference! A five-fold difference compared to the Rösle! You can really feel that difference. It means its sensitive enough to pick up smaller and lighter items, such as microgreens and flower stems, which you could easily crush with the Mercer due to the amount of force needed simply to reach closure, for plating. It's also wide enough (although not as wide as the Rösle) for frying most thin slabs of beef and hardy veg. It's a great all-rounder and I can see why some chefs say these are the only tweezers/tongs they need! I can see myself using them over the Rösle at times, although the extra length and width from the Rösle is still useful - but they've pretty much instantly replaced my Mercer tweezers for fragile plating, despite being almost twice as long! They also fit really well in my knife roll, slotting in beside other tools without clashing into my knife blades. I'd really recommend these, especially compared to the Mercer tweezers!

They're large tweezers. Imagine simple tweezers like the ones for plucking hair, but just blown up many times larger. It's sturdy enough to grip relatively heavy stuff like a decent sized steak, but it's somewhat nimble such that you can handle delicate vegetables, gyoza, egg rolls w/o damaging/ripping them apart. Having a good sized opening and good resistance (not too flimsy/light, yet also not too heavy/major force needed) lends itself to having a good enough feel for somewhat delicate tasks.Sure, it won't do well carrying something very large/heavy like a full rack of pork ribs or bunch of beef ribs, but that's what more heavy duty tongs are for (though tongs aren't so good for delicate tasks). It can be done, but it's a bit large & unwieldy for plating flowers or micro greens in a very exacting arrangement (though better than the larger kuchenprofi one). Something like small tweezers (like the ones surgeons use) would be much better, but tiny plating tweezers can't lift anything of any significance.It looks like it is 1 solid piece or it is welded at 1 end. I have a slightly larger set of 12" kuchenprofi tweezer tongs, but that one looks like 2 pieces stuck together rather than 1 piece like these jb prince ones. With that said, I can't speak about the long term durability of either, as I've only had them a short time. In the short time I've had this, it's held together well.Not sure if many people think about or mention this, but this is way better than using chopsticks. Much faster, much easier to use, all around better dexterity. Before anyone goes on some rant about race, being a culture less oaf, etc., I myself am an East Asian person that is very much adept and at ease with using various types of chopsticks for different purposes, whether it be cooking, eating, hair, stabbing, weapons, skewering, stirring, picking up, dowel, cleaning, etc. Picking up single grains of rice w/ chopsticks is hardly unusual for me (I'm not the type to just shovel food from the bowl into my mouth like many that claim they know how to use chopsticks, but really truly aren't that good at it).For just about any kitchen/cooking as well as eating purpose, tweezer tongs work much better than cooking chopsticks. I think very few people can lift heavy steaks, fry gyoza & egg rolls, and arrange micro greens with the same dexterity & ease with cooking chopsticks compared to tweezer tongs.Sure, tweezer food has a bad rep for being bourgie frou frou pretentiousness, but that doesn't mean you yourself have to be pretentious and vapid. It's a useful tool that just gets associated with something pompous & highfaluting.

Super handy in the kitchen. I use it way more than I thought I would.

Lightweight but sturdy- Great spring-back, easy to use and wash

Love these, perfect for plating pasta, stirring, flipping, grilling, whipping raw eggs, picking egg shells out, basically the most used tool in my arsenal besides my knife

These tweezers have a great feel in my hand! They are heavy duty and large. I recommend!

Sturdy and useful, dishwasher safe. Great for jobs like removing stray fish bones prior to cooking filets.

These are the only tweezers I will use