Filling regular blog posts means sometimes they are very boring! and this one comes with a warning as this is the first of three posts about car-boot sale finds.........sorry.
I found a pair of brand new heavy duty oven gloves at the Sunday boot sale for £2. They looked just like the ones I like to use that come from the Lakeland company but the packaging wasn't the usual Lakeland labelling, although that little tag looked vaguely familiar.
I couldn't remember if I had a spare in the cupboard already - they are something I've found at boot sales before, but at £2 I knew they were a good money saver. When I got home I put my glasses on and found a tiny note on the back saying they were made for Lakeland.
They'll last ages because they are good quality and are now £9.99 new.
On the Lakeland website there are all sorts of oven gloves, some like mittens, one for each hand, some shaped like a glove puppet with an opening 'mouth', some made of silicon, and some coloured to match your kitchen. They range in price from £7.99 to £14.99. Or on Amazon there are over 1,000 different sorts listed!
What sort of oven gloves do you prefer, or do you just grab a handy tea-towel?
Definitely a grab a teatowel person here! A good find though. I miss car boot sales, they seem to have dwindled but the charity shops are very good here luckily.
ReplyDeleteYour posts are never boring! I just use a tea towel. When the kids were little they used to regularly steal my oven gloves to make puppets.
ReplyDeleteI don’t trust the mitt style ones - I just know that in a rush I would just use one, and that would be the day the dish or tin would slip and I’d grab it with the bare hand on reflex! Same style as yours in my house always!
ReplyDeleteThese are the oven gloves that I always use. And this is a reminder that I need to get myself some new ones. I don't like ones that let the heat through, so I sometimes even take them with me when we go away on holiday,
ReplyDeleteYou got a good deal there. X
If it's a large item, oven gloves. Anything light usually a tea towel. Not a fan of oven mitts. You did get a bargain.
ReplyDeleteI used that sort for ages, but they got dirty so quickly. For some years I've had the sort which have silicone "mittens" on each end. They rinse clean quickly if I get ragu or chicken fat splashed on them. I've also got a small silicone "shark" which I use for holding hot pot handles.
ReplyDeleteA suggestion, if you have three "car boot" posts and think they will be boring, why not just combine them into one post, which might be more interesting and give some comparison as to what you find where.
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