isi Silicone Oven Mitt

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Product Features

• Heavy-duty silicone mitt for cooking with boiling water or oil or grilling
• Heat-resistant up to 500 degrees F
• Waterproof, nonporous, and stain-resistant
• Dishwasher-safe; 11 inches long; fits either hand
• Top gadget at 2002 Excellence in Housewares Awards

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 4.9 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008WM57
• Item model number: K8690
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #98,507 in Kitchen & Dining (See Bestsellers in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Color: Blue

Amazon.com Review

Appropriately named, the ORKA oven mitt looks like a whale swimming in to pull lobsters from boiling water or lift a basket of French fries from the deep fryer. Made of non-porous, food-grade silicone, the mitt is designed to withstand temperatures up to 500 degrees F without melting, staining, or getting your hands wet. This makes the ORKA ideal for cooking with boiling water or oil or using over grills or open flames. Slip-resistant "teeth" on the mitt’s grasping surface provide a sure grip when lifting greasy or wet pots. At 11 inches long, the mitt is long enough to protect the forearm and fit either right or left hands of all sizes. For easy cleaning, the ORKA goes right into the dishwasher with the rest of your pots and pans. This product was the top gadget at the 2002 Excellence in Housewares Awards and has also been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, and CNN. --Cristina Vaamonde

Product Description

Don this amazing mitt and you're prepared to deal with pretty much any kitchen chore. Waterproof, and incredibly heat-resistant, this mitt will protect your hand from boiling water, fat and oil up to 500 Degrees F, as well as direct flame, grills, charcoal. It even works when wet!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works well, has one limitation, November 30, 2003

By	Consumer "flymach1" (Virginia, United States) - See all my reviews

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.

389 of 458 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant addition to the kitchen of any aspiring overlord, December 31, 2003

By	The Good Doctor of Devestation (Isle of Doom, Pacific Ocean) - See all my reviews

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.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Oven Mitt, November 12, 2003

By	Carl Rakowski "ambecee1" (Owings Mills, MD USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This thing is amazing. The day that it arrived, I put it on and stuck my hand in a pot of boiling water. I'm sure that they would not recommend this, but I did it anyway. I had my hand in there for several minutes before the inside of the glove even began to warm up. At this point, my wife made me stop "acting stupid." So as soon as she wasn't looking, I made a pizza on one of those pizza stones. I kept touching the racks in the oven, the oven walls and the stone with no problens at all. The best part was when I was cutting the pizza. The mitt had great grip for holding the stone and when I was done, I just put it in the dishwasher to get the cheese and grease off. I have a set of regular mitts that I will never get food stains out of, but they are now retired anyway. Thanks iSi.

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