Pot Holders or Oven Mitts

[Coconut]

I often use tongs.
After I use mitts to take food out of the oven, I use them to pick up hot foods.
I use them to take bread and foods out of my toaster too.

 

[Murrmurr]

The now 12yr-old kid who comes over a couple times a month for baking lessons had no idea what oven mitts were called. He came over to borrow them one day and called them "those things you put over your hands to take the hot things out of the stove."

Oven mitts. And that's an oven, not a stove.

 

[LoveTulips]

We have got the Ove Glove and pot holders, no oven mitts.

 

[OldFeller]

Oven mitts.
Prevents any accidental slippage that would expose skin.

Pot holders are best to lay hot pots on the table to protect the tabletop.

 

[outlander]

I just use my Shaolin skills, David Carradine ain't got nothin' on me.

 

[Della]

Those of you using towels, be careful the end doesn't catch on fire. (Been there done that.)

I use a silicone potholder to stand my left foot on if I'm going to be working in one spot for a while. After breaking the left leg, it's tiny bit shorter than the other one and it also seems to want to slide to the left in it's sock foot. The potholder stops all that.

 

[IrisSenior]

I use the oven mitts as hubby big hands don't fit them. I have pot holders now for him.

 

[MarciKS]

I use either or.

 

[Sunkist]

I've heard some people refer to oven mitts as potholders. Maybe it's a regional or international thing, but to me, it's like this and not interchangeable:

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Agree. They're two different items.