5 Essential Hands-Free Tools Perfect For Your Next Cookout

Yes, we know that Burger King revealed their Whopper holder was just a joke but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great idea. Depending on your tastes, a good burger can be the messiest of summer cookout fare, with the risk of dripping grease, ketchup, mustard or any number of condiments onto your hands or clothing. A neck-mounted burger holder would keep you and your clothes nice and clean and free up your hands for more important things—like grabbing another beer or rubbing sunscreen on your favorite female—while you eat.

Sure, this automated device might take way more time and trouble than necessary to grab a chip, but that’s a small price to pay for keeping your fingers free of all the salt and grease associated with eating potato chips. With the cash that you’ll undoubtedly save on napkins, this handy device will pay for itself in no time.

While burgers and hot dogs are obviously the stars of the show, one of the more underrated pleasures of summer is fresh corn on the cob roasted on the grill. But who has enough time to use not one but two hands and meticulously eat all that corn row by row? Now you can solve that problem with a tool you should already have at your disposal. Just attach your ear of corn to a power drill and watch those kernels fly. Watch this helpful video demonstration to get a better idea of the tool in use. (*Note: this manner of eating is probably not approved by the American Dental Association.)

It’s the classic dilemma—you’re holding a cold one in your hand when it’s time to eat. Do you set your beer down while you fill up your plate or stand idly by while your roommate’s annoying friend goes back for thirds and snatches the last deviled egg? The Go-Plate slips neatly over the neck of your bottle, allowing you to hold both your beer and plate in the same hand while scooping your desired food with the other. Even better, once your plate is full, you don’t even need another hand to eat. Just lift the plate up to your mouth and go to town on those baked beans with one hand still free.

The original, and still the best, hands-free device the classic drink helmet allows for two-fisting using exactly zero fists. With the Drink Helmet, a lack of hands will never again be an excuse for a lack of proper inebriation hydration. The Drink Helmet instantly classes up any backyard shindig and tells eligible women in the crowd that you're a man who is in control of the situation at all times.