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Glovens are a delightful replacement for the humble oven glove. Glovens are stylish, extremely comfortable and a safe way to handle hot dishes and pans up to 250°C and as low down as the temperatures in a household freezer. They can be used when cooking or cleaning the barbecue or wood burning stove and they are great to wear while scraping ice from the car on a winters' morning.

Having tried them for a few weeks, it will be hard to go back to the tea towel.

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Pros

• Safe, reliable, heat protection
• Light and easy to use
• Great with very hot and extremely cold
• Not just for the kitchen
• Comfortable to wear

Cons

• Don't work with touch control hobs

Description

• Glovens
• Approx £25 - £30
• Suitable for domestic use handling hot food and equipment. Protects hands from the freezer, BBQ, Wood burning stoves.
• Buy Online

Guide Review - British Food Product Review: Gloven Oven Gloves

Are you an oven glove-cum-mitt or a tea towel person? Personally I go for the towel. I find oven mitts clumsy especially with extremely hot pans so usually grab a towel, not the perfect solution but for me, the lesser of the two evils. That is until I was introduced to Glovens.

Glovens are the mitt but with fingers. The fingers, as I discovered gave me practically all the dexterity of using my bare hands but with a thick sheath of protection for heat, and in the freezer, from the cold. They are supposedly considered safe up to 250°C but I will admit to a little lack of trust when faced with a whole roast chicken that had been over an hour in the oven, the fat was sizzling and the roasting tin extremely hot.

I did hesitate for a moment but my fears were unfounded, the most heat I felt was a slight warmth. I was thrilled.

Glovens are made from Nomex by Dupont and have been tested for Formula One race wear, fire fighters and police clothing. They are light, and aboutthe thickness of a winters' glove. Given the dexterity and lightness of Glovens, I found that after putting the hot tray back into the oven I forgot to take them off. Cooking with the gloves on was fine but given that they must be kept dry or else they don't work, cooking in them perhaps not the best idea. I also realised that the thickness of the finger pad meant the touch controls on my cooker did not respond. My conclusion: use the gloves for the hot pans then take them off which is no more difficult than whipping off oven mitts.

The gloves were an absolute gem when clearing out the freezer, the dexterity whilst wearing them really came into its own as wearing the gloves certainly speeded up the usually dreary process.

Glovens are practical, comfortable to wear, and provided they are dry, safe up to 250°C. Did I also say, they are extremely stylish so no worries if you have to answer the door whilst cooking. Use them in the kitchen, cleaning out the freezer, a safe way to attend to a hot wood-burning stove, and I tried them outside in the cold scraping the ice from the car windscreen, a perfect use for them.

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