British BBQ Society Forums

Two problems with gloves.

Either they're not heat resistant enough and your hands get hot.

Or they're very heat resistant, but so think it's impossible to handle anything with dexterity.

What gloves do other forum members use/think are best?

Steve W

I use glovens, very good product.

Eddie

I've just ordered some welding gloves from Amazon - for the princely sum of £6, I thought I'd give them a go....

Eddie wrote:I use glovens, very good product.

Eddie

Thanks for the tip.

Searching at Amazon, I see you can also get these as an addition:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gloven-Liners-E ... 531&sr=1-4

Takes the '250 degrees' up to 500 degrees. Apparently.

If that's true, it's well worth the extra £4.

Steve W

For handling the hot metal parts in a BBQ and for moving coals around I use welding gloves. I find I have easily enough dexterity for the tasks I do in these.

For handling hot food I will often use only nitrile gloves, if the food is really hot, I may double bag. Yep I feel the heat but I wouldn't say it hurts (most of the time).

Lots of people have said good things about glovens though, so if you don't have asbestos finger tips like me, then maybe worth a try.

I think I may get a pair of glovens and a pair of welding gloves.

Thanks everyone.

Steve, what welding gloves would you recommend? Are the £6 ones from Amazon fine?

Steve W

+ 1 on the Glovens. I also use the nitrile gloves if I'm moving something quickly.

Steve, I just grab ones from fleabay similar to those £6 ones. They last a couple of seasons but as I said I do move coals with them.

Robin, I also move everything quickly but I think I've also killed some of the nerve endings in my fingers as I can pick stuff up that's much hotter than other people I know can

Never heard a bad word about these glovens though. I'll have to have a look at Eddie's in Brighton.

When buying carefull of crappy imitations. If I want a good product i'll always buy originals http://www.gloven.co.uk/
and this web site sell originals at a cheaper price http://www.smokingbbq.co.uk/gloven-bbq- ... -174-p.asp

Regards

Eddie

I've had the cheapo welding gloves (Red ones) from Amazon, but would never risk moving coals around, they just about hold up with grates. For moving lumps of meat around I have a pair of insulated rubber gloves, worked a charm over Christmas with a 15Lb turkey in the other cooking equipment I keep in the kitchen (don't know If I'm allowed to say oven )
Just bought a pair of gloven at Grillstock. Only used the gloven once since Sunday, managed to hold on to a very hot oven tray for quite a while. The advantage is you can bung them in the washing machine to keep them clean, not something I'd try with the welding gloves.