Abstract: Tongs particularly adapted for removal of toasts, English muffins, and the like from electric toasters and having a pair of fingers made of flexible insulating material, such as thin laminar wood similar to a conventional tongue depressor, each secured adjacent to an end thereof to a spacer and mounting member, such as a wooden dowel. One of the fingers being fixedly secured as by a brad and glue to one side of the spacer and mounting member, and the other finger being tightly rotatably mounted on the opposite side of the spacer and mounting member.