Gloves for handling hot pots

[xylaria]

It was a scarf the toddy kindly gave my daughter. It worked itself into the linen boil wash on return from the dark ages and shrunk to half it size. It is really brilliantly heat proof. Very effective and historical for any period.

 

[Womble_Lancs]

I use an old pair of leather motorbike gloves.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Soldier 95 gloves work well for me

 

[tombear]

Aldi welding gauntlets, not sure if they have them in at the moment but they have been great and come with a leather apron for under a tenner.

ATB

Tom

 

[sasquatch]

What Wayland said as I've already got a shemagh with me. Saves me buying and carrying something else...

 

[BarryG]

I use a stick, but if I'm cooking big time i.e. lots of pots on the go, then I use some leather gardening gloves.

 

[superc0ntra]

Something like these, costs close to nothing.

 

[Melonfish]

Rigger gloves get my vote also, suprisingly heat resistant, DON'T go for nomex, nomex is not heat resistant or flameproof, nomex is designed to be flash proof

 

[British Red]

I do find riggers too cumbersome to use for much else (not that it matters at that price). I found a pair of brown heavy "suede" gardening gauntlets to be the best (a few quid from B&Q). Also good for thorny stuff and rough work with enough"feel"

 

[Nonsuch]

Screwfix. Standard welders gloves (red) for £3/pair or why not treat yourself to the superb quality professional welders gloves (yellow) £7/pair. Delivery £5 next day on the dot. Amazing value

NS

 

[TinkyPete]

I have several different sets:

Old issue work gloves (leather palms and fingers but fabric(cotton) backs had them ages and were free
old leather work gloves (civi) look a bit like gardening gloves for handling wood etc about £2 from ashop years ago about £4 now i think
some Hot gloves (from Wilkinson) oven gloves but real gloves not mitt things work great in handling stuff in house cooker too A fiver a set work great and have grippy bit on the palms too
old NI gloves old issue and were free with the job
new 95 gloves (well they were when 95 first came out) free one one of my last issues of kit (when we finally got 95 kit in 96 )

 

[MSkiba]

I got a decent pair of gloves from halfords. Raeally happy with em. They are made for changing your wheel etc.. but work really well around the camp fire.

 

[iano]

I lost one of my Berghaus fleece gloves that were meant to keep my hands warm (Spectrum?) so it's one surviving brother is now my 'oven glove'... just a normal fleece glove, it doesn't need to be super heatproof as I'm only grabbing the pot off the burner, not deliberately trying to scald myself with it. One leftover normal glove is small enough to live inside the pot too. I would have thought most gloves would fit the bill, I'm sure you must have some unwanted gloves lying around that would do the trick.

 

[Shewie]

I lost one of my Berghaus fleece gloves that were meant to keep my hands warm (Spectrum?) so it's one surviving brother is now my 'oven glove'... just a normal fleece glove, it doesn't need to be super heatproof as I'm only grabbing the pot off the burner, not deliberately trying to scald myself with it. One leftover normal glove is small enough to live inside the pot too. I would have thought most gloves would fit the bill, I'm sure you must have some unwanted gloves lying around that would do the trick.

I think the OP means a glove he can grab a hot bail arm with after it's been hanging over a fire for ten minutes. They can get pretty hot and a fleece glove wouldn't last two minutes whereas you can probably get away with it over a stove. I think that's what Mang was getting at, could be wrong though

 

[iano]

Ah there you go - I'm generally just snatching a pot off a meths or gaz burner or something similar, so it's no biggie for me - you'll be wanting something more rufty tufty than that I imagine!

This just proves to me I need to get back to building blooming great open fires and trying to cook/burn my supper on them, like when I was a boy

 

[Shewie]

This just proves to me I need to get back to building blooming great open fires and trying to cook/burn my supper on them, like when I was a boy

LOl, that's what I look forward to if I'm honest. If I can get away with a fire I'll have one, even if it's tiny it just has to be done. I carry a meths burner too but only if I can't have my dose of bushcraft TV

 

[SimonM]

Like others, I use soft leather gardening gloves.

Simon

 

[decorum]

I tend to use a square* of old woolen blanket.


* Two squares sewn together for an increase in heat resistance.