We are long time fans of Sea Island Forge. We LOVE our kettle, and use it often for open fire cooking. To be sure, it is a learning experience, but now my preferred cooking "go to" method for routine cooking (I do my slow cooking on a traditional firebox cooker--although I have slow cooked pork butts, ribs and chicken on the kettle as well.
Meanwhile: we like to cook paella when we have guests. It takes some time and effort, but the results are well worth it. The paella tool makes it a lot easier, especially when doing some "crispy rice scraping" (intentional, not burned) off the paella pan. And our guests a couple of weeks ago--all 30+ of them--loved the results.
And I have also found that it is a very useful tool for more routine cooking, such as burgers for the family. It is actually preferable to a spatula in my experience.
By the way, using all the tools is fun: they are very well made, and are going to be heirlooms for our family--they are that unique and useful.
