It sounds like this has given you a great kick-start in terms of your cooking abilities but...don't soak your oven cloth in water next time
Any reason why not? My intent was to temporarily counteract the heat of the baking tray long enough to pull it out since the towel itself was thin cloth. Didn't burn my hand so seemed to work well.
It sounds like this has given you a great kick-start in terms of your cooking abilities but...don't soak your oven cloth in water next time
Any reason why not? My intent was to temporarily counteract the heat of the baking tray long enough to pull it out since the towel itself was thin cloth. Didn't burn my hand so seemed to work well.
Ok I really thought that guy was Rain Wilson when I saw the thumbnail so I went ahead and clicked on it, oh a celebrity trying fast food for a lark, I'm in, and you guys it's so completely not Rain Wilson.
It sounds like this has given you a great kick-start in terms of your cooking abilities but...don't soak your oven cloth in water next time
Any reason why not? My intent was to temporarily counteract the heat of the baking tray long enough to pull it out since the towel itself was thin cloth. Didn't burn my hand so seemed to work well.
Ok I really thought that guy was Rain Wilson when I saw the thumbnail so I went ahead and clicked on it, oh a celebrity trying fast food for a lark, I'm in, and you guys it's so completely not Rain Wilson.
It's just an Aussie bloke that likes to torture himself with bad fast food.
It sounds like this has given you a great kick-start in terms of your cooking abilities but...don't soak your oven cloth in water next time
Any reason why not? My intent was to temporarily counteract the heat of the baking tray long enough to pull it out since the towel itself was thin cloth. Didn't burn my hand so seemed to work well.
Wet cloth will heat up more quickly and be more likely to burn you because water conducts heat better than cloth. Just buy some cheapo thick dish towels.
Ah, okay plain cloth next time then. Though I'm going to get an actual oven mitt before I need to improvise again
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I used to go to a coffee shop that had a really good brown sugar cinnamon latte. I might drag down the moka pot and try to replicate it this Sunday, it's supposed to be agreeably cool and rainy out.
It sounds like this has given you a great kick-start in terms of your cooking abilities but...don't soak your oven cloth in water next time
Any reason why not? My intent was to temporarily counteract the heat of the baking tray long enough to pull it out since the towel itself was thin cloth. Didn't burn my hand so seemed to work well.
Wet cloth will heat up more quickly and be more likely to burn you because water conducts heat better than cloth. Just buy some cheapo thick dish towels.
At an advanced age, I finally gave in and bought some silicone oven gloves and now those tender and ornamental little red marks on my hands and wrists are but a fading memory.
NB the damb cloth thing is... briefly OK if the thing you're picking up has low specific heat capacity. If it's a thin aluminium baking sheet for instance, the bit you're touching will probably cool off before it has time to actually hurt you. But as soon as you start fooling yourself that "hey this works fine I don't need to spend a whole £16.99 on fancy silicone gloves like that chump V1m did", then you're setting yourself up for the whole picks up a heavy iron or steel pan that will gleefully flash that dampness into steam, poach your fingertips and/or your palms and poach 'em real good scene.
At least try and make sure that there are some onlookers who can be amused by your hopping and handwaving and hooting and hey look the whole pot of chili is all over the floor, good job there chef.
Edit: Just buy the gloves, is where I was going with that, if it wasn't clear.
V1m on
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
And make sure you buy these ones:
so you can say "I can take a hot pan out of the oven with my bear hands."
I bought a pair of cloth and silicone barbecue gloves a while back, you have to work a little quicker with them because they heat up, but I appreciate the added precision and being able to grab small things with them on.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
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edit: I got burned so much at the wire factory. when adding new material or fixing a break, you would spot weld them together via a machine that made the ends of two wires red-hot and you squish 'em together and hope for the best. this whole process made that piece of wire just so goddamned hot and I was a hung-over teenager so I was constantly melting the weird plastic gloves we wore into my palms.
edit: I got burned so much at the wire factory. when adding new material or fixing a break, you would spot weld them together via a machine that made the ends of two wires red-hot and you squish 'em together and hope for the best. this whole process made that piece of wire just so goddamned hot and I was a hung-over teenager so I was constantly melting the weird plastic gloves we wore into my palms.
That boy was me!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Oh yeah this was just a baking sheet, there's no way I'd have tried this move on something like a cast iron. I know very well how hot those things get because as a redhead I am far more thermal sensitive (in both directions) than most. When I say small hand towel I mean very small, very thin, very "I can only use three fingers and a thumb because the fourth would touch the tray" kind of thing.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I worked as an Alley Coordinator (expo) at red Lobster for 3 years in college, the two main parts of the job were cutting and squeezing baked potatoes directly out of the over and removing snow crab legs from plastic bags directly out of the steamer.
While I don't pull metal out of the oven with my bare hands, I definitely pull the pizza that way.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
I also remove things from the 120c autoclave at work while wearing a pair of 6mm thick nitrile gloves instead of using the heat resistant gloves that are literally draped over the autoclave cause it seems like to much work to put them on.
Standard (not super small) dish towels also work just fine, have the advantages of being multipurpose and hanging easily from an oven handle (or just about anywhere else). I wanna say most professional kitchen folx use towels.
Disadvantage is that they don't look like bear paws or are cool silicon nubby things.
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MichaelLCIn what furnace was thy brain?ChicagoRegistered Userregular
I've given myself so many burns, usually from touching the top of a rack trying to turn the pan or whatever.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
I like my old oven mitts because they've got weird owls on them, but they're getting worn enough that they're no longer uniformly protective. Which is a bad trait to have in your PPE.
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Any reason why not? My intent was to temporarily counteract the heat of the baking tray long enough to pull it out since the towel itself was thin cloth. Didn't burn my hand so seemed to work well.
Wet cloth will conduct heat faster
Tis a lesson you need only learn once.
Stupid Sexy Cast Iron.
actually surprised you didn't discover this
It's just an Aussie bloke that likes to torture himself with bad fast food.
Wet cloth will heat up more quickly and be more likely to burn you because water conducts heat better than cloth. Just buy some cheapo thick dish towels.
noooo don't do that
I think this sounds good? Maybe it would be too much cinnamon but I def would try it.
At an advanced age, I finally gave in and bought some silicone oven gloves and now those tender and ornamental little red marks on my hands and wrists are but a fading memory.
NB the damb cloth thing is... briefly OK if the thing you're picking up has low specific heat capacity. If it's a thin aluminium baking sheet for instance, the bit you're touching will probably cool off before it has time to actually hurt you. But as soon as you start fooling yourself that "hey this works fine I don't need to spend a whole £16.99 on fancy silicone gloves like that chump V1m did", then you're setting yourself up for the whole picks up a heavy iron or steel pan that will gleefully flash that dampness into steam, poach your fingertips and/or your palms and poach 'em real good scene.
At least try and make sure that there are some onlookers who can be amused by your hopping and handwaving and hooting and hey look the whole pot of chili is all over the floor, good job there chef.
Edit: Just buy the gloves, is where I was going with that, if it wasn't clear.
so you can say "I can take a hot pan out of the oven with my bear hands."
edit: I got burned so much at the wire factory. when adding new material or fixing a break, you would spot weld them together via a machine that made the ends of two wires red-hot and you squish 'em together and hope for the best. this whole process made that piece of wire just so goddamned hot and I was a hung-over teenager so I was constantly melting the weird plastic gloves we wore into my palms.
That boy was me!
That was going to be my next resort if not the shower robe
'Member that guy who held a Dominos hostage because he thought the noid was insulting him personally?
either way, he thought the whole Avoid the Noid thing was a conspiracy
Please stop spying on me.
Not surprised he got annoyed
he was definitely a few peperonis short a slice. Definitely good reason to be nice to the irritable guy with the unique last name.
While I don't pull metal out of the oven with my bare hands, I definitely pull the pizza that way.
https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-Kitchen-Beacon-Passion-Bordeaux/dp/B08J8DZYZL/ref=zg_bs_678536011_sccl_13/144-1465755-1637038?pd_rd_i=B08J8DZYZL&psc=1
So, you win this round, I guess!
You can always make fun of me for being white trash, does that help?
Disadvantage is that they don't look like bear paws or are cool silicon nubby things.
same vibes as
Fine! Maybe I willl!
I like my old oven mitts because they've got weird owls on them, but they're getting worn enough that they're no longer uniformly protective. Which is a bad trait to have in your PPE.
It's good I guess, refreshing, kinda dry though, tastes almost like a light beer somehow? It's the berry flavor one