Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Inferior to traditional tongs. Not recommended.

These tongs are a bit hard to hold and to squeeze. More importantly, the odd-shaped business end does not hold food very well. Skip this item and buy traditional spring-loaded aluminum chef's tongs with scalloped edges, which are very reasonably priced and work very well. Or if you need to work on a non-stick surface, choose bamboo or wooden tongs. But skip these; they don't work well.