Customer Reviews

Isi 11-Inch Silicone Oven Mitt, Blue

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I ordered this because I have used silicone in baking and it works nicely. I expected it to perform better than the Kevlar gloves I currently use, which BURN you during spills because the cloth absorbs liquids.

Alas, this glove must have been intended for men. The "finger" part is about two inches longer than my longest finger. The thumb prevents you from pushing your hand all the way to the end of the finger part. The material being very thick, it means you are usually trying to fold half an inch of bouncy, rubbery stuff between your hand and the handle of whatever you are trying to grab. Cookie sheets are far easier to move than casseroles. Imagine big nubs at the ends of your fingers. Awkward.

However, it is fairly heat proof and is safer from that point of view. It's also an attractive blue, well made and has grippy "teeth" that help maintain a good grip even on a slippery surface. I'm happy enough with the material that I'm shopping for pot holders made from it. The FIT is what gave this item a lower grade. If it fit well, it would have been a 5.

This works as advertised. It withstands high temperatures and will protect your hand even if you dip it in hot oil. However, there is some small heat transfer after the fact. I dipped my hand into my hot oil while frying a turkey this Thanksgiving for just a second or so. The mitt protected my hand but some of the heat transferred through within a few seconds. There was just enough to get my fingers warm. I don't think it would be possible to spend much time fishing around before your hand gets hot, but that wouldn't be a smart thing to do anyway. The one limitation I would say is of noteworthy importance is the fact that there isn't very much dexterity with this mitt when trying to grab a small round item like the knob of a lid. When trying to take the lid off a pot, I find that this glove isn't very usefull. It slips a bit and just isn't designed to handle that task well. That being said, this is the first mitt I reach for when taking something out of the oven, cleaning the grill, frying a turkey, or just playing with the kids. They think this thing is great for chasing someone and trying to "get" them. I plan to get a second one of these so I'll have one for each hand.

The kitchen of an evil overlord bent on planetary domination is a busy place. Believe me, I know! But the ORKA Silicone Oven Mitt is definetely one of the most welcome additions to my kitchen that I have purchased over the past 20 years of toil and dementia.

In my kitchen/laboratory, it's always "safety first" -- when developing an insanely evil plan to enslave the majority of humanity within Plutonium manufacturing plants, who has the time to take care of unnecessary burns from hot plates? After the ORKA glove, however, I might as well toss my first-aid kit of iodine and Muppet Babies band-aids right out the evil window! No more unsightly scars and red marks will ever find their way onto these gnarled, twisted hands that so carefully craft the doom of mankind.

Before, when brewing a hideous potion of deadly poison that was supposed to be entered into a small town's drinking water supply, I had to use hand towels to prevent the dangerous heat from searing my tortured flesh. The result was almost always a huge mess! Now, there's no more accidents or smoldering holes in the floral-pattern linoluem of my evil kitchen/laboratory -- mom doesn't have to worry about her decorative hand towels, either!

The blue hue of the ORKA glove complements the gloomy interior of my lab, whose walls drip with the vile designs of my impending apocalypse when my mom's not busy cooking dinner. As such, the good people at ORKA will be spared their lives upon the decimation of the free world, though they will be required to serve the remainder of their lifetimes within the Uranium mines of Siberia. Overall, I must heartily recommend the ORKA glove for any mad scientist, evil overlord or even upstart henchman looking for their first job in the career field of hopeless nihilism.

When I saw this product on tv, I told my husband I needed one. I mostly use a mitt for the oven. When my old mitt was destroyed, I rushed to buy this one. How foolish of me not to try it on as if I were buying clothes. I bought a dangerous $20 oven mitt. It probably should've been designed like Arby's Oven mitt spokesman with the thumb beside the pointer finger instead of under it. It poorly fits both men and women, and I saw a woman advertising it on hgtv's kitchen gadget show. I can't securely grip cookie sheets or the handles of my pizza stone or any pot I put in the oven. I can, on the other hand, grab my oven shelf. For those thinking of buying this product, test it out in the store to see if it suits you. See if you can grab handles of pots, and see if you have inches of space between your fingertips and the glove's tip. I always have to remind others using my mitt to be careful!

I saw this at a kitchen store in an outlet mall on my drive back from Wisconsin, they seemed like a great idea. I hate taking a boiling casserole or chicken dish from the oven and worring about another burn soaking through the fabric mitts. That is not a problem with these. YES, you can actually put your hand in boiling water or even the previously mentioned casserole without worry of future skin graphs! I stuck mine in a pot of boiling water to test a noodle, and felt no heat at all. You can even turn meat on the BBQ.

They are also, surprisingly, comfortable. Not sticky or clammy feeling inside. And it is for a lefty or a righty. Clean up is simple, toss it in the dishwasher.

My only complaint and reason for 4 stars, is the awkard fit, at least I find it so. Would probably fit a mans hand better, the 2 holes for the fingers are longer than mine, though not to much longer. Long nough that I am not certian I have a good grip on whatever I am handling. Overall I am quite thrilled and pleased. I also prefer the blue ones over the translucent ones, the blue is more attractive.

When I bought these (2 of them), I was in love. I could hold ANYTHING and not get burnt. I could even pick up an entire roasted chicken and transfer it to a platter - and then rinse the mitts under running water.

What has soured my opinion? Flexibility - or the lack of it.

Firstly, these mitts are BIG. If you have smaller hands, fuggetaboudit! They are hard to keep in place (i.e. on your hands!) primarily because they are thick and don't bend very easily. The mitts do have a "tread" of grooves which help to keep whatever you are holding from slipping - but they're still kind of tough to maneuver.

Bottom line: they protect your hands in the oven and are great for fishing something out of a pot of boiling water...but they are awkward and can cause cooking mishaps!

Both my partner and I had a hard time getting used to this extra thick, poorly felixible mitt. It is true that you cannot feel any heat but you also cannot feel the dish or pan that you are trying to hold which made us feel that the item would slip out of our hand. Our friends seemed to like them so they have it now!

This oven mitt looked like a great product; I loved the idea of being able to stick my hand into a pot of boiling water. Unfortunately, due to the poor fit, it is useless for most purposes. I find that I rarely use it, and instead just use a pair of silicone pot holders.

As others have said, this mitt is made for someone with enormous hands. When your fingers don't reach all the way to the tips of the glove, it's difficult to grip things. The material is also thick and rather stiff, not flexible, so the thumb part doesn't move very far from the "fingers" part.

It is useful for gripping flat, wide things (like cookie sheets), but that's about it. I once tried to use it to take a muffin tin out of the oven, and I ended up crushing one muffin with the thumb and still dropping the tin because I couldn't grip the small rim. I couldn't even pick up a small bowl with it unless I were to hold it by the rim, with the thumb dipping into the bowl!

This product is an example of a great idea that just didn't work.

We have a pair of these gloves at the restaurant where i work. Within a few weeks, and with no abuse, the gloves developed cracks between the ribs on the grip side. They are also stiff, and it's impossible to make a fist while wearing them, so grasping pot handles is uncomfortable and awkward. As an added bonus, they get slimy and disgusting inside if you wear them for any length of time, and crumbs and grease and dirt like to get stuck between the ribs on the grip. Get a pair of good old cloth mitts and save yourself 35 bucks.

The glove works great and cleans up easy, but may be hard to use for people with small hands, as the silicone doesn't easily fold and crease to fit like cloth does.