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These are exactly what I hoped they'd be. Amazing heat resistance(can comfortably grab a cast iron skillet out of a400 degree oven), terrific dexterity- can easily manipulate tongs to move small pieces of meat on a roaring bbq. Can't imagine how they'd be better.
- Steve Smith
Great gloves, but a little big. Would like to see a couple sizes instead of one-size-fits-all. Deals with heat well! Almost unbelievable. You can grab ahold of the hot grate and move it around, no problem. You might feel a VERY slight warm temp increase but that's all. But you can't hold on to the REALLY hot stuff too long or it will start burning the fibers and they will start turning yellow/green and getting crusty/stiff. It doesn't catch fire and burst into flame...the heat just kinda starts deteriorating the material. So you really wouldn't want to like hold a pile of glowing red coals in your gloves. :-) But short of that, these gloves are great.
- Jane Goodall
I'm am avid griller (22.5" Weber charcoal kettle grill) and home smoker (30" Masterbuilt Electric Digital Smokehouse).. I used two sets of gloves before since my suede grilling gloves just were too unwieldy for using with my smoker. For the smoker I've been using silicone gloves which lack individual fingers. I'll be using these gloves for both jobs. I tried them out with two grilling sessions: grilled chicken thighs a couple of days ago, and today when I grilled 6 ribeyes and 4 lobster tails. For the lobster tails I had to use my grate lifter to lift the cooking grate to add more lump charcoal. So there I am holding the grate with the lobster tails on it and adding more lump charcoal directly over the burning coals. I didn't feel any heat at all. Nor did I feel any heat when putting my hand against the hot kettle (I burned my finger earlier when I accidentally touched the kettle without wearing a glove).
Tomorrow I plan to smoke pastrami in my smoker. I smoke around 240° and I work with a hot wood pellet burner and hot thermometer probes, as well as moving the meat on the racks. I finally have gloves with fingers that will enable me to easily manipulate all that. The glove fingers are slightly longer than my fingers (I have medium sized hands) but the gloves overall fit my hands nicely. The red flame against the black fabric on the back of each glove is very cool.
- Duffy Young
Not sure how hot they can go, but they certainly let me reconfigure the cast iron grids on my BBQ at temps in excess of 350c. If you hold hot stuff for a long time, the heat will eventually come through, but thats just common sense. In practice I have no problems holding hot stuff from the BBQ or casseroles etc from the oven.
They are pretty comfortable with a good grip on slippy stuff. The cuff comes quite high up your arm which is great if you have to reach deep into the oven for stuff at the back or between closely spaced shelves.
- Tracy Gills