Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poor engineering

I was disappointed with these tongs, which was surprising since OXO makes good kitchen utensils. I agree with other reviewers, it is difficult to grasp and close them. Unless you have a rather large hand (which I don't), you're forced to grasp the handle so far down near the stainless steel! When comparing these to my 12" tongs my hand grasp was at the same point - which really made these 16" tongs no different from the 12" ones.