Excited over mittens...
TLDR: works great for me, no heat leaking through, no melting or warping, comfortable, easy enough to clean. Everyone has different experiences with products, but my purchase was solid.Full review:Never thought I'd be able to give a positive review of oven mitts, but here I am. I've gone through over a dozen oven mitts in 3 years... all of which struggled to beat the heat of my oven pans and casserole dishes. Some were cloth, rubber coated, silicone coated, all silicone, ultra "might-as-well-be-a-memory-foam-mattress" padded thick dish rags, some the shape of Pac-Man (which is totally irrelevant but they were really cute and I hated that they didn't work against the heat). I bought from Amazon, from Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Marshalls, Kohl's, you name it I tried it because I was so tired of getting burned through mitts just moving a pan to a countertop for 4 seconds. I promise I'm not creating high heat laboratory experiments, playing with lasers beams, placing my hands on the Arizona summer sidewalks, etc.; I just really like cooking and apparently 325-450° is too much for most mitts even though they are supposedly made for handling stuff that comes out of a hot oven. Some even deteriorated, and one melted, after a few months of use (and they leave that horrible burn smell behind after every use, yuck).But THESE oven mitts? No melt, no smell, and I actually feel safe using them the past few months. I intentionally held on to a hot tray for a good minute to test them and I didn't get any serious heat through the mitts. I feel like I can safely carry hot/heavy casserole dishes this holiday from kitchen to dining table and stand there patiently waiting for people to move out of my way without worrying about dropping the hot dish or burning my hand. It's a weird thing to be excited about, but I'll own it.Honestly, I was a bit worried about the textured pattern on the outside of the mitts when they first arrived, I thought they'd easily melt, but I've thus far been proven incorrect. I inspect after every use because of my past experiences with mitts, and haven't noticed any changes to the texture or materials. So far, I'm impressed.They are long and protect my arms when using my small upper convection oven, where sometimes reaching in such a small space I'll bump my wrist on the hot door. (They go maybe 3 inches past my wrist, so not too long but still enough protection).They are padded, but I haven't had any fluffs come out of the padding yet. I've had mitts in the past that unraveled on the inside after just a few weeks of use. I have cleaned them once, which was easy to do, but I recommend using a real towel or a very damp cloth to do so. Paper towel fibers easily stick to the material of these mitts (at least from my experience).Overall, a good buy for me. No problems in 3 months of use, but if something happens then I'll update the review. I gifted one to a friend last month and they said they enjoy baking more because of the mitts (:
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High Quality Oven Mitts
It's fantastic that you get two mitts with the purchase. We have had several varieties of oven mitts over the years. Two of the latest remained in our cabinet up until purchasing these. I immediately threw them out after the first use of the Big Red House variety. Our previous ones were your typical thick heavy duty material that often allowed the hot intensity of higher temperature oven settings through to our fingers and palms and it was too much to bear, causing us to wobble and almost drop the pans. We had another kind that we really liked which had two flaps, one for your four fingers and another for your thumb, sort of like a puppet. We really liked that one due to the more natural design of the way you grab things from the oven. It had a non-slip rubberized surface on the inside (mouth) of the hand portion to grab and hold as well as protect the inside of your fingers and palm. It did last quite a while, but the rest of it was like the others where we would feel too much heat on our wrists or lower arm if we touched other things in the oven. When it started to degrade, it was immediate over a very short period of time - like only weeks, so that it was no longer protecting our fingers and no better than the typical cheap mitt.The Big Red House mitts have that same non-slip rubber but in horizontal lines that go up past your wrists. They protect our whole hand and wrist from the intense heat. The vertical nonslip lines work much better because they are all around the mitt and that protects the outside tops, bottoms, and side of my hand from bumping the other grates in my oven as well as the sides and top of the walls or other pans. The other one we liked did not do that and it protected only the inside of your fingers and palm. Therefore, Big Red House mitts are superior.My only request of the manufacturer is to also design another mitt style that is shaped like the " hand puppet" kind, but with their lines of non-slip protective rubber still going around the entire mitt and both flaps. It would work the natural way our thumb opens and closes our hand and how it folds around edges of things we pick up, (our hands don't naturally move the way traditional oven mitts are designed with an open flat shape as if our thumb only ever opens and closes from the side of our hand and not towards our palms and inside fingers. Providing this alternative style would literally make these oven mitts absolutely perfect in every way.
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Bethann L.
October 26, 2025
BUY THESE!!!
These are the best oven mitts you will ever buy. They are exactly like the calaphalon ones i used to buy at Bed Bath & Beyond and that they no longer carry. I was so happy to find them on Amazon! The quality is amazinhg. I would swear these were the same ones I had. They are machine washable, provide excellent protection and both my small hands and my husband's big hands fit them. It's a one size fits all glove. You don't have to worry about burning your wrists etc as they are covered. These will be a little stif in the beginning, but bear with them as they will soften with use and washing. Can't say enough good things about them.
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Good, but hard to let go of hot items
These mitts have good protection against heat. And the silicone "stripes" that run along the outside grip items really well so they don't slip out of your hands. But that also means it can be tricky to let go of things. Sometimes it's safer to let a bowl or dish slide out from under the mitt, but that's impossible with these. So, all in all, good mitts, but be beware of this feature.
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