Oh yeah, you can have tweezers for more than just plucking hairs out of your face. There are also kinds you can use for, say, more upscale cooking techniques. Think cooking chopsticks — which we mentioned in our Japanese cooking essentials guide — but welded together and usable for even more delicate tasks.

Take these precision tongs from Mercer Culinary, for example. They’re excellent for extracting stray pieces of eggshell from a hot skillet, picking microgreens, fishing capers out of narrow jars, achieving a perfect plating worthy of a Michelin restaurant, garnishing a cocktail, grabbing a single bite of boiling pasta to taste how it’s coming along, and more.

They offer a wide variety of lengths and styles to better suit certain tasks, each of which runs for around $9–$11.