Im the same way, plus, I don't run the dishwasher every day, so if I used them for dinner, they might not be clean and ready for the next meal I cook.death_hawk wrote: ↑I need AT LEAST 2.
For safety reasons I use fresh tongs to handle cooked meat to eliminate cross contamination.
More if I'm doing other things that require tongs as well.
It's nice having 12 pairs around.
So we have 3 or more of things like tongs, ladles, spatulas.