On 2016-10-16 5:27 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:23:17 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>>> Yep, it happens to all of us at some point. I really should get a
>>> decent pair of oven mitts, I often have close calls just using a tea
>>> towel.
>>
>> I hate oven mitts and will never use them. I find them too awkward and
>> lacking in protection.
>
> I also find them awkward, which is why I haven't got a pair yet... but
> I do need to get some mitts or *something*. I've been pushing my luck
> a lot by using a tea towel (and often a damp one at that).

Yeah. Tea towels don't really cut it. They may be okay for a cookie
sheet coming out of a 350 F oven, but when you throw a hot cast iron
frying pan into a 450 oven to finish a steak, a flimsy fabric cloth is
not going to work. Using a wet on is insanity.

I still have not forgiven the student who gave my wife a hand knitted
hot bad made of Phentex. I made the mistake of using a decorative "hot
pad" as a hot pad. The damned thing melted on contact and I don't know
if my burn was from the hot pan or the melted Phentex.

>
>> I prefer to use hot pads and before those that
>> are long enough that they cane be doubled over for added protection.
>
> They might be what I need here.

Good hot pads are hard to find. Most of them are decorative and too small.