On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:42:17 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.

ATK tested them recently and said the Oxo Good Grips were the best in
all ways. It beat out the ones they had previously recommended. One
point was the wrist was better guarded.