Kitchen Tongs
| Kitchen Tongs | |
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| Class | Cooking |
| Condition | 1 |
| Weight | 0.6 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.KitchenTongs
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Kitchen Tongs are a pair of metal tongs from a household or restaurant kitchen. They sit in the Cooking class, but their real use is in metalworking. They stand in as crude tongs for handling hot metal at a forge or a furnace.
Kitchen Tongs are fragile for that job. The item tooltip warns that they break if used for Blacksmithing crafts. A pair is good for a single piece of work at the forge, so they are a stopgap rather than a lasting tool.
The best use for a pair is to forge proper Tongs, which then take over the forge work. Kitchen Tongs are common in restaurant kitchens, butcher shops and barbecue stores, and they turn up in house kitchens too. The Chef is the best occupation for cooking. It starts with the most Cooking skill. The Burger Flipper also starts with some Cooking skill.
Cooking
At a forge, Kitchen Tongs can hold the metal for recipes such as Forge Bar Quarter from Chunk, Forge Bar Half, Pierce Chunk and the iron band recipes. At a furnace they work for melting sand or glass, smelting iron and steel from scrap items, and casting bars and ingots. The basic forging recipes are open from Blacksmithing level 0.
Because the tongs break after one blacksmithing craft, each pair covers one recipe. Using a pair to forge real Tongs turns that single use into a lasting tool.
Locations
Restaurant kitchen counters are the best place to look, at roughly one in three. Hot dog stands, fish and chips, seafood, Mexican, Western, arena, pizza and Jay's Chicken kitchens all keep them. Butcher shops and barbecue stores hold them on shelves and counters about one time in five. Sheds hold them just as often. House kitchens and living rooms turn them up on counters and in overhead cupboards.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Hotdog stand | Counter | 32% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Fishchips kitchen | Counter | 31.2% |
| Mexican kitchen | Counter | 30.8% |
| Arena kitchen | Counter | 30.4% |
| Arenakitchen storage | Counter | 30.4% |
| Western kitchen | Counter | 30.3% |
| Deepfry kitchen | Counter | 25% |
| Italian kitchen | Counter | 23.8% |
| Shed | Other | 21.9% |
| Living room | Counter | 17.4% |
| Kitchen | Overhead cupboard | 17% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Jayschicken kitchen | Counter | 31.2% |
| Seafood kitchen | Counter | 31.2% |
| Pizza kitchen | Counter | 27.6% |
| Kitchen crepe | Counter | 25.3% |
| Barbecue store | Other | 22.6% |
| Barbecue store | Shelves | 22.6% |
| Butcher | Shelves | 22.6% |
| Butcher | Counter | 21.5% |
| Butcher | Metal shelves | 21.5% |
| Butcher | Other | 21.5% |
Notes
- Kitchen Tongs break after one blacksmithing craft, so save them for forging real Tongs.
- They let a new smith start forge and furnace work before owning proper tools.
- Sheds and butcher shops are good places to find a spare pair.
- Pick up every pair found, since each one covers one more piece of forge work.
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