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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-10-17 9:48 AM, wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks. I will keep an eye out for them.... the pads not the gloves.