KITCHEN GADGETS

 
Tweezers to take out the fine fish bones, tasting spoon, tweezer style tong (from left to right)

I’m resistent to kitchen tongs in my own kitchen. I disagree with lots of kitchen people out there but frankIy I find them disgusting. I know they are handy but as far as I am concerned they are simply over used, and how could you possibly have any e feel for the food by handling a piece of meat or whatever with a monster claw.  Granted they do a nice job with pasta and protect your hands from burns since you have a longer reach with them. 
 
Spatula with a serrated edge.

My point is what about the good old spatula or the newer tweezer style tools which let you actually put some feel into your work performance.
I can still see the tongs sticking out of the back pocket of some cooks I used to work with. The next moment they were on the kitchen line and had their “pocket tongs” in the food. “Oh I dropped my kitchen mitt to the floor let’s pick it up with those convenient tongs”! The cook extends his arm and picks up that dusty spice box from the upper shelve with the tong and then he or she plates the special salad of the day with those same now-dusty tongs. Repeat this and other scenarios lets say a filthy fifty times and I leave it up to your imagination what “flavors” swirl around in your tonged food.
(Of course I am not talking about the destined tongs in the bread basket on the Las Vegas buffet.)
 
Microplane zester great for taking the skin of lemons etc.
Heat proof plastic spatula ideal for risotto making not to crush the rice corn to puree
 
"The knife is the extention of my hand"