Abstract: A meat manipulating tool, particularly adapted for barbecuing, which includes a shaft provided with a handle at one end and a half circle skewer hook extending laterally from the extended end of the shaft for penetrating a steak or the like to overturn the steak or to lift the steak from the barbecue; the shaft being further provided at its extended end portion with an essentially rectangular turner plate extending in the opposite direction from the skewer hook, the turner being laterally movable by the shaft to slip under a steak or a hamburger for removal, or rotated to overturn the article being cooked.