Bamboo & wood kitchen goods
Toast tongs with a natural spring, boards that fit small kitchens, utensils in teak and walnut — honest wooden goods for every counter.
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The pieces that leave our shelves fastest, season after season.
The bestselling pair in the range: 8.7-inch bamboo toast tongs with a built-in magnet that parks them right on the toaster.
The classic 8.7-inch bamboo toast tong, stripped to the essentials - two arms, natural spring, nothing to break.
The original 7x7-inch mini bamboo boards, set of 2 - over two thousand ratings for the simplest idea in the catalog.
Round bamboo portion plate divided by USDA-style ratios - vegetables, grains, and protein each get their zone.
Square bamboo bento plate with four compartments - portion control in a meal-prep-friendly tray format.
11-inch foldable bamboo cooking tongs, set of 2 - wide 6.5-inch opening, rounded tips safe for nonstick pans.
Bamboo regrows from its own roots in three to five years — no replanting, no bare hillsides. The fastest-renewing material a kitchen tool can be made of.
Sanded edges and rounded tips glide over nonstick, ceramic and cast-iron surfaces. A wooden tip has never scratched a pan, and never will.
Our tongs spring back on the natural flex of the cane itself — nothing to rust, snap or leach into hot food. Just wood, shaped well.
We make more tongs than anything else, and they are not interchangeable. Match the reach to the job and skip the guesswork.
| The pair | Reach | Magnet | Wood | What it does best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnetic Bamboo Toaster Tongs: 100% Natural 8.7” Wood Kitch… | 8.7” | Yes | Bamboo | The toaster pair — lives on the fridge door, always in reach at breakfast. |
| Magnetic Classic Bamboo Toast Tongs | 8” | Yes | Bamboo | The small one — compact toasters, tight counters, tiny kitchens. |
| Magnetic Bamboo Toaster Tongs (Set of 2) | 10.2” | Yes | Bamboo | Extra reach with a rebound spring — toast at breakfast, BBQ at dinner. |
| 2-Pack Classic 8.7” Bamboo Toast Tongs | 8.7” | — | Bamboo | The classic — toaster, air fryer, oven and the pickle jar. |
| 2-Pack Bamboo Kitchen Tongs for Cooking | 8.7” | — | Bamboo | Wide grooved flip tips — the pair that babies your nonstick pans. |
| Bamboo Cooking Tongs (Set of 2) | 11” | — | Bamboo | Salads and serving — folds flat to disappear into a drawer. |
| Versatile Bamboo Salad Tongs | Folding | — | Bamboo | The traveler — collapsible pair for camp kitchens and picnic baskets. |
| Long Bamboo Cooking Tongs (11.8”) | 11.8” | — | Bamboo | The longest reach in the drawer — keeps knuckles away from the grill. |
| Wooden Deer Antler-Inspired Toast Tongs | 10.2” | — | Walnut | The antler pair — carved walnut serving tongs you leave out on purpose. |
Still torn? Start with the 8.7” magnetic pair — it is the one the rest of the range grew out of.
Six woods, one drawer. What each one is good at, and where you’ll find it in our range.
Technically a giant grass. Dense, springy fibers make it the natural choice where a tool has to flex and come back — and it grows faster than any tree.
In our range: Toast tongs, salad tongs, cutting boards, portion plates, toothbrushes
Fine, even grain that machines smooth and takes daily knocks without splintering. The classic European workhorse for kitchen woodware.
In our range: BBQ grill scraper, wall hooks, the baby brush set
Naturally rich in oils, so it shrugs off moisture that would swell other woods. The wood shipbuilders reach for first.
In our range: The sourdough spurtle and the 12-inch spatula set
Deep chocolate tone with a satin finish — the dressiest wood in the drawer, and hard enough to earn its keep.
In our range: Antler-inspired toast tongs, rustic hat hooks
Bold, contrasting grain and high natural durability. Made for boards that spend as much time on the table as on the counter.
In our range: The covered charcuterie board set
Light, aromatic and naturally resistant — it releases its signature scent as you work with it.
In our range: The aromatic grill scraper
Where laboos comes from
Our workshop stands in Zhushan Township, Nantou County — the town at the heart of Taiwan’s bamboo country. The name is not a marketing invention: Zhushan translates literally as “Bamboo Mountain,” and the slopes around town have supplied cane to local workshops for generations.
For decades the shop on Jianguo Road cut and shaped bamboo for other companies’ labels before finally putting its own name on the box. That long apprenticeship is why even the least expensive pair of laboos tongs is glued, sprung and sanded like something far dearer — the people making it had thirty years of practice before you ever saw the brand.
KAO CHENG CO., LTD. · No. 29, Jianguo Rd., Zhushan Township, Nantou County 557005, Taiwan
Cane comes down from the hills around the township, harvested at three to five years old — the age when bamboo walls are at their densest and springiest.
In the workshop it is split, planed, laminated and profiled into tongs, boards and handles — the joinery, not hardware, is what gives each tool its strength.
Every surface is sanded until it cannot splinter, wiped with food-grade oil and boxed. Nothing else touches the wood before it reaches your kitchen.
Every laboos tool starts as a living plant, not a pellet of resin. We shape bamboo and solid wood into things a kitchen actually uses daily — then finish them with food-safe oil and nothing else. When a tool finally retires after years of service, it returns to the soil it came from.
laboos began with a single stubborn idea: the tools you touch every day should be grown, not molded. A pair of toast tongs gets used more often than almost anything else in a kitchen — so we made ours from bamboo, gave them a magnet to live on the fridge, and let the cane’s own flex do the work of a metal spring. Everything since has followed the same rule.
Today the range runs from the breakfast counter to the barbecue: tongs in five lengths and styles, compact cutting boards sized for real kitchens rather than showrooms, teak utensils for cast iron, bristle-free scrapers for pellet grills, and a shelf of small wooden goods — toothbrushes, hooks, a baby brush set — that carry the same materials into the rest of the house.
| Collection | Best For | Signature Pieces |
|---|---|---|
| Tongs | Toasters, salads, grills and serving | Magnetic toast tongs, folding 11” tongs, walnut antler tongs |
| Boards & Serving | Everyday prep and entertaining | 7” mini board sets, magnetic grill board, covered acacia charcuterie set |
| Kitchen & BBQ Tools | The stove and the smoker | Portion-control plates, teak spatulas, sourdough spurtle, cedar grill scraper |
| Home & Life | Bathroom shelves, walls and desks | Bamboo toothbrushes, adhesive wood hooks, Kung Fu Cat stacking game |
We start with the material, not the drawing. Bamboo is selected for straight, dense cane; beech, teak, walnut, acacia and cedar are chosen where their character earns the job — teak’s oils near water, cedar’s scent at the grill, walnut’s tone where the tool will be seen. Surfaces are sanded to a splinter-free finish and sealed with food-grade mineral oil. No paint, no lacquer, no coating that could end up in your food.
Wooden tools ask for three habits: rinse by hand rather than the dishwasher, stand them up to dry, and wipe them with a little mineral oil when the surface starts to look thirsty. Do that and a laboos board or tong will outlast several plastic replacements — which is the whole point.
“Care for the Earth. Care for You.” is printed on our banner because it is the test every product has to pass. If a tool cannot be made from a grown material without getting worse at its job, we do not make it. So far, the wood has never let us down.
We do not print testimonials with names attached. Below are the public rating totals these products carry, and our own reading of what a number like that can and cannot measure.
4.6 average from 4,672 ratings
On a wooden tool that costs less than a sandwich, a sample of this size mostly measures two failure points: whether the built-in magnet stays glued and whether the grip stays splinter-free after months by a hot toaster. Both would have surfaced loudly by now. What the average cannot tell you is how strong your fridge door magnetized surface is - a weak spot on some brushed-steel finishes.
Magnetic Bamboo Toaster Tongs: 100% Natural 8.7” Wood Kitch…
4.7 average from 3,955 ratings
Toast tongs live or die at the spine - the glued joint that gives them their spring. Thousands of ratings collected over years is a long fatigue test of exactly that joint, run in real kitchens rather than a lab. The number says little about feel, though: some hands want a stiffer squeeze than one thin strip of bamboo provides, and no average will warn you either way.
4.6 average from 2,252 ratings
For a small cutting board the questions worth asking are all about water: does it warp after wet weeks, does the edge crack, does the surface stay flat enough to slice on. A four-figure sample spanning years of dish cycles answers those better than any spec sheet. It cannot answer whether seven inches is enough board for the job you have in mind - measure your counter first.
Home Mini Cutting Board Small Fruit Cutting Board Solid Bam…
