Tongs

The chimta in Pakistani cooking is longer and flatter than Western kitchen tongs — it is designed to grip the puffed chapati off the tawa and hold it directly over an open gas flame for the final char that makes phulka (puffed chapati) so appealing. Tandoor workers use specialized, leather-wrapped long chimtas to retrieve naan from the inner clay walls without burning their hands. The rhythmic clacking of chimta against tawa or grill is a characteristic sound of Pakistani kitchen activity.