Buying Oven Mitts
Every cook needs oven mitts. Along with hot pads, they are a basic kitchen item required for safety in the kitchen. Oven mitts save the cook's hands from burns while working with casserole dishes and pizza pans in the oven or with hot stoves and stove lids on the stove top.
Matching Your Kitchen Décor
Most cooks like to choose mitts that match their oven décor because they like to leave their oven mitts out hanging on a hook. However, if you always keep your oven mitts out of sight in a kitchen drawer, matching the mitts to the colors and theme of your kitchen is not nearly as important as it would be otherwise.
Novelty Mitts
Novelty oven mitts are fun. These are mitts that look like something else - hand puppets, for example. Popular oven mitts these days are the Holstein cow mitt, the rainbow trout mitt, the moose mitt, the lobster claw mitt, the shark mitt, a "hot head" pot holder critter, and a kitten mitt.
Flameguard Royal Mitts
These mitts are an extra long 13 inches long to protect not only your hands but your lower arms from the heat of the oven or barbecue grill. Flameguard mitts are made from a unique insulated fabric that is flame resistant.
Silicone Mitts
Silicone oven mitts are the newest thing in the kitchen - all the rage in today's gourmet supply shops. These mitts are made of futuristic silicone materials. They protect your hand from wet and dry heat from the oven, boiling water, charcoal, and hot oil.
Crate & Barrel's silicone mitt potholder combination is heat resistant up to 600 degrees - hot enough even for the pizza chef. This mitt has a grooved, textured surface designed to hang on to those hot pots and pans. Their high tech look goes with any modern kitchen.
The silicone mini oven mitt has a pocket for your fingers and thumb, but doesn't go all the way around the back of the hand. This mini mitt uses "gripping teeth" to grab hot pans. It is heat resistant up to 500 degrees, and dishwasher safe.
Handmade Mitts
If you like to sew or knit, you can easily make oven mitts for yourself or to give as gifts for birthdays and holidays. Start with quilted, heat and flame resistant fabric, and cut your pattern out. Sew the front and back together, turn the mitt inside out, and stitch a binding strip around the edge. Fasten a ring or loop to one end for hanging, and you have one perfect oven mitt, ready to be gift wrapped.
