Question for the day

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why would someone make an oven mitt out of what turned out to be flammable materials?

Comments

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

All my skillets are cast iron. The handle included. It may be a flawed design, but it's a traditional flawed design.

[avram]

There are recipes that requires that design, where one stage of the cooking is done on the range-top, and then you take the whole skillet and stick in in the oven for a while.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I have a Scanpan skillet with a plastic handle that's safe up to about 200C/400F. They're out there.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

No, no, I would never complain about a cast-iron skillet. But this is definitely more of a dollar-store skillet. The handle isn't of a piece with the pan, it's *metal*. Shiny. It gets very, very hot.

(This makes my mom sound really bad for giving it to me, but she gave me lots of other nice presents. I'm sure she was just randomly passing by someplace and thought "Ooh, cheap skillet" and picked it up as a stocking stuffer. Still, it really sucks.)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I was mostly being facetious. I forget that doesn't translate well on LJ.