Verde River Products Gecko Grip Gloves, Silicone Heat Resistant Grilling BBQ, Oven, Grill, Baking, Smoking and Cooking Gloves, Med-Large, Black

Removing meat from my smoker

These gloves are great. The do what they claim. Most of all, I received a communication from the company in email the thanked me and gave me some important details to know when removing the gloves. You have to carefully remove them one finger at a time working the gloves off instead of just grabbing 2 or 3 fingers and yanking, which could tear the gloves apart over time. Where I notice these gloves ROCK is when I am dumping a canister full of RED HOT coals in my charcoal grill, then using tongs to move and arrange those coals evenly before placing on the meat. This requires your hands to be over these HOT coals for many seconds. Where normally you have to keep yanking your burning flesh from above the coals every 2 seconds, you can leave your hands in place for many seconds and not feel a thing. They do an excellent job at being heat resistant. Just remember, it is smooth silicone on the inside of the gloves, so if your hands sweat, it just takes some finessing to remove the gloves off one finger at a time. They are slightly bulky, so depending on what you are doing, like using some tongs, or having to grab small items, these gloves could pose a challenge. Might just take some getting used to how to hold or grasp some items.Just a note of caution, because these are so good at being heat resistant, you might be reluctant to periodically remove your hands from them HOT coals if you need to do some attending to coals or meat. Take for example having to constantly rotate 65 chicken wings on a grill. The glove do absorb heat over time and I have felt them get hot, which, if you are not careful or paying attention, could get burned by the glove. Remember, the gloves do not come off fast, so if those gloves get hot, you wont be able to rip them off.I love the glove, would highly recommend them and am glad to have them so I can actually hold my hand over red HOT coals for more than 1 second.

I purchased these gloves early this year. On the whole, they have been very good but have a couple caveats.My hands are a little larger than average. I can pull these gloves on with no problem, but if I sweat a little inside the glove, they tend to form a vacuum seal and become very hard to get off. I don't expect the majority of people to have this problem.Silicone gets very slippery when it has oil on it. The first time I used these gloves to move meat in the smoker I was surprised when I tried to pull them off. When you mesh the issue above in which the gloves can form a tight seal around your hands with the oil induced slipperiness, you have a little bit of a trial on your hands. The gloves are greasy so I didn't want to go back into the house to get a pair of pliers or some help (it would have created a mess at every door), but having one on each hand made it impossible to get a grip to pull it off. I finally realized that I could get out of them if I bit onto a finger and pulled. Sort of a modern version of the chinese finger trap.Please realize that all silicone gloves get very slippery when oily. It is nothing unique to these gloves.I've used these gloves to rotate food in the smoker as well as pull the fire basket. They offer lots of thermal protection. I really like this product but I will be looking for a similar product that's just a little larger.

It's probably best to give some details relating to the one star rating issues rather then just saying I think they are great..Too small. I have moderately. large hands and they fit me fine. They seem small due to their grippe nature. More about that in a bit.They transfer heat - Well duh, everything transfers heat if you hold on to something hot long enough and how long long enough is depends on how hot the hot is. I do a lot of smoking, grilling, and general cooking and have had any number of kinds of holders over the years. Current crop includes heavy leather, not quite welding gloves, kind of a knitted white "heat proof" fabric gloves, and these. of the three these gloves transfer the heat much slower then the other two or any other device I have used.Can't get them off - Well yes of course, their sticky so you have a good grip on hot pots, pans and grates . It's not pretty when you drop one of those especially if the grate has five pounds of hot brisket on it. After I received them I got a nice email from the Pres. of the company thanking me and of course asking for a good review. It also included some rather convoluted instructions about removing the gloves to avoid suction. Obviously he must live very far from any water deep enough to involve scuba diving and wet suits. A light dusting of corn starch, talc, or baby powder of your choice inside and they glove slip easily on and off. Reapply as necessary which isn't after every use.They are, for want of a better word, cumbersome - Granted you aren't going to be picking up dimes with them but they are a heck of a lot better then the leather gloves or any mitt I've ever owned and better protection then the knit ones and I don't see myself picking up dimes with those either. They are also far easier to clean then anything else I have ever tried.

Easy to clean and do work like they should. The only small issue is that if you are holding onto to something hot for a long period of time you do start to feel the heat in the tips of the fingers. This the only smooth area on the gloves, which is the reason for this. The grip is great and definitely no slippage and more grip than cloth gloves. You also don't have the issue of bursting into flame if you accidently brush the element when removing a pan from the oven or griller. Being able to wash them in the dishwasher is another bonus.

We use in a laboratory for handling hot metal flasks from boiling water. Best gloves we've ever come across and better still, seem to be able to use both gloves on one hand! Will definetly purchase again although such good quality, won't need to for quite a while!

A bit large but useful and can be washed under the tap whilst being worn. Recommended.

Awesome addition to my home BBQ setup. I have quite small hands and the medium size is a good fit for me. Great value too.

Good