How To Make Easy Bamboo Cooking Tongs

 

These were made from some bamboo I salvaged from a curtain bought at a craft store.  I never used the curtain because all the string holding the pieces together was bad.  I felt fortunate I did not spend a lot of time on a project using the bamboo as a curtain, and THEN find out the string was bad.

I put two flats together, and wired the top tightly, so it looked kind of like a whole branch of bamboo.  Then I pushed a rock into the V formed by opening the two pieces, making sure it went as far toward the wired end as possible.  Then I used heat shrink tubing to hold it altogether.  These are some of my handiest tools at the grill.