Our Story

One founder.
One obsession.
No shortcuts.

It started because we were sick of reading the back of the packet and not liking what we saw.

Big Tongs Biltong started in a Murwillumbah kitchen, out of a simple frustration: nearly every meat snack on the shelf was loaded with sugar, seed oils and a list of numbers longer than the ingredients.

So Seth started curing his own. Grass-fed Northern Rivers silverside, a home dryer, and a stubborn rule — if it wasn't something you'd find in your own kitchen, it didn't go in. Raw apple cider vinegar, Australian sea salt, native botanicals. That's it.

Mates kept asking for more. Then their mates did. A weekend experiment became a proper little brand with one job: make the best clean-label biltong in the country, and never cut a corner to do it.

Still small, still obsessed with the details, and still drying every batch slow. Real beef. Nothing else. Bigger than your average tong.

Big Tongs Biltong
Bigger than your average Tong

What we stand for

The Big Tongs
standard.

01

Clean label,
always

Under five whole-food ingredients. No added sugar, no seed oils, no preservatives you need a chemistry degree to understand.

02

Grass-fed
& local

Whole-muscle silverside from Northern Rivers farms doing it properly. We know where every cut comes from, and we're proud of it.

03

Native
botanicals

Saltbush, mountain pepper, lemon myrtle, Davidson plum — the only biltong leading with Aussie natives as hero ingredients.

The founder

Meet the
maker.

S
Seth Baker
Founder & Maker
A caterer and events founder from the Northern Rivers who got obsessed with doing biltong the right way. Seth built and sold his own hospitality business, The Gin Experience, before turning his hand to clean-label curing. Today every batch of Big Tongs is sourced, seasoned, dried and packed under his eye — farm-to-pack, no BS. If a batch isn't right, it doesn't leave the shed.

Taste the difference

Real beef.
Nothing else.

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