I knew that the ball suregrip tongs had a problem and could break from the rubber falling apart. It would look mine over before each use and tonight it looked completely fine, no cracks in the rubber and on pulling the 7th jar out they broke and splash boiling water on my hand. I got lucky and only got my pointer finger and thumb and no blisters just red, painful and swollen but could have been way worse. Don't use them at all even if they look good
by Professional-Oil1537
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Contact the company. I know of a gal who had the same thing happen. She had used twice before it failed. A total of 24 jars pulled from the hot water bath. She got a refund and she said they told her there was a defective run of them. This was back in 2023.
I mostly use my grandmother’s tongs, probably from the 1970’s. No worries about them.
I have an older tong that are blue. I’m thinking they are 24 years old?