“…Food impaction is a common endoscopic emergency that requires prompt removal of the impacted food bolus to avoid esophageal and extra-esophageal adverse events. 1 Conventional methods of removing impacted food boluses with devices such as polypectomy snares, rat-tooth forceps, alligator forceps, or polyp graspers are less effective and are time-consuming when used for a tightly impacted food bolus that easily becomes fragmented when removal is attempted. 2 , 3 , 4 In such patients, increased procedural time puts them at risk of adverse events such as aspiration, prolonged intubation, perforation, and readmission.…”