Question for the day

[james_davis_nicoll]

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

Comments

[soon_lee]

In my (limited) experience, oven mitt materials are chosen for their insulation properties, not their inflammability.

[amberdine.livejournal.com]

I set pot holders on fire all the time. Dang gas burners...

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Schadenfreude.

[alyxyn.livejournal.com]

Booby trap for someone they didn't like?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Is that what that fireball to the east was?

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I actually got a skillet for Christmas with a metal handle. I kept looking at it thinking "That bad design can't possibly be as bad in practice as it appears in theory."

Turns out, it is.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

What on earth were you doing to set your glove on fire!?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

I often us cotton kitchen towels as pot holders, mostly because the silicone ones go walkabout now and again.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

I tried for two christmas' to get my mom an Ov Glove as it was on her list. I finally found a Canadian Tire who had just received a shipment. The guy in line behind me had already bought 17! He was giving them to all the old ladies at his 55+ apartment building.

What is it about 55+ apartments... it seems like most of the tenants are actually little old ladies in the 70+ range (at least that is what it is like at my mom's and the ones where my aunts had lived)?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Well, traditionally, pot holders were knitted or crocheted and of wool or cotton, neither of which burn that quickly. Acrylic/polyester, though, goes up like crazy. So even now, maybe pot holders are cotton, but some are still polyester. What was yours made of?

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, when I worked for Crate and Barrel, they sold a Chanukah Menorah which would ignite if the candles burnt down to their base.

Since you aren't supposed to blow out Chanukah candles, they invariably burn down to the base.

The menorahs were quickly recalled.

[(Anonymous)]

I have Orka all-silicone mitts. They are very very good. I do have quite large hands (the ring on my ring finger is too big for most folks' thumbs) so you might want to try them out rather than just go with what works for me.