Oven gloves

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Yes, really!

All the oven gloves I buy seem to be almost completely ineffective. Maybe I'm expecting too much, but does anyone have any recommendations for gloves that actually allow you to pick up a hot tray without suffering fourth degree burns?

Most in John Lewis etc seem to be style over substance.
 
I have some silicon ones, I hardly ever use them - I find a tea towel folded over a few times works fine - but when I have you can't feel the heat at all.
 
O/p, if you mean those long things with the 'gloves' at each end, I hate them with a passion. Everyone I know who has them never wash the damn things and they end up greasy and disgusting inside. If they are clean and, most importantly, dry, they work quite well but I don't think I've ever seen a pair in this state. I prefer to use a dry tea towel folded over, but 'er indoors complains and when she's in the kitchen I use those thick square oven mitt things. Just beware, as soon as any of them get wet or remotely damp, you'll get burned.
 
Jonny69 said:
O/p, if you mean those long things with the 'gloves' at each end, I hate them with a passion. Everyone I know who has them never wash the damn things and they end up greasy and disgusting inside. If they are clean and, most importantly, dry, they work quite well but I don't think I've ever seen a pair in this state. I prefer to use a dry tea towel folded over, but 'er indoors complains and when she's in the kitchen I use those thick square oven mitt things. Just beware, as soon as any of them get wet or remotely damp, you'll get burned.
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Couldn't agree more. Dry folded tea towel everytime as they go into the wash on a regular basis unlike any oven glove which only ever ends up seeing the inside of a bin.
 
DirtyJester said:
Couldn't agree more. Dry folded tea towel everytime as they go into the wash on a regular basis unlike any oven glove which only ever ends up seeing the inside of a bin.
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I dread putting my hands in them. There's that cold shiny feeling of the dried-on grease, slightly tacky feel inside with bits of old food in the ends, then when you take your hands out they smell like greasy old stale food oil. Gross :p
 
I have this from Matalan & I use it all the time, it's more black now though.

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I got given one where I used to work; it's a pink silicon jobby with a removable cotton inner section. Whack the inner section in the wash if it gets grubby, and the silicon just wipes clean
 
Le-Creuset oven glove

Brilliant to be honest (even if they are wet), just make sure you stick it in the washer every month or so and it'll last for ever. Had mine for four years now and it still looks like the one in the link once it's been washed.
 
I have some coolskin gloves. Like to have the ability to retain use of my fingers when holding hot things. They're very good.

Surprised someone hasn't said it already, but ... get some asbestos gloves. Sorted.
 
I just use the mitt type, as long as they're thick they do the job.

Don't get on with those silicone ones as they don't protect your hand so I ended up burning the top of my hand/wrist all the time.
 
Jonny69 said:
I dread putting my hands in them. There's that cold shiny feeling of the dried-on grease, slightly tacky feel inside with bits of old food in the ends, then when you take your hands out they smell like greasy old stale food oil. Gross :p
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How do you get grease and food INSIDE the oven glove?

My oven gloves go in the washer along with my towels and dishcloths at about 70 degrees every couple of weeks. Though I do find that when they've been washed a few times they tend to lose their heat protecting qualities a little.
 
My mum has 2 silicone ones with some fluffy lining. You could hold a cast iron pot straight from the oven for ages without feeling a thing. I just use a folded up tea towel though, never served me wrong so far.
 
vicisthebest said:
How do you get grease and food INSIDE the oven glove?

My oven gloves go in the washer along with my towels and dishcloths at about 70 degrees every couple of weeks. Though I do find that when they've been washed a few times they tend to lose their heat protecting qualities a little.
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Upon picking them up.
 
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