Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/30/my-off-label-use-for-these-sil.html
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They actually look like they would be good for fishing bottles of jam or tomatoes out of a canning bath as well, as long as they are waterproof. Less chance of slippage.
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They have a “ribbed for pleasure” vibe, don’t you think?
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Isn’t that what meat claws are for?
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My sis gave me a pair of leather grill gloves. I wear them to pill the cats.
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Batteries or rechargeable? 
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Might be useful for corn on the cob too.
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I have considered getting a pair of these for when my car has been sitting in the sun all day and the steering wheel is to hot to touch.
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My few-years-old “LoveU” mitts no longer protect from heat very well so this is great timing. Code worked! Thanks Mark.
Edit: I noticed the Cuisinart branded gloves only protect to 425F but these can handle 446F.
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If you let that hot chicken rest you will save your hands from heat and end up with a much moister bird.
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You can still moister bird while wearing these gloves and avoid soiling your hands with greasy fat. I rest my chicken.
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No, no, my friend. This model is completely manual, no batteries or external power supply necessary.
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Heh, I have nerve damage in my fingertips from a life time of nail biting. I do stupid things like pick up boiling hot casserole dishes pretty often. Granted I do it quickly so I don’t get blisters, but it does feel like a superpower.
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They’re good for handling meat.
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That’s what she said.
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That sounds like the closing argument of the world’s worst lawyer, “My lord, I rest my chicken!”
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I think I know what you are talking about (putting the pills in a small lump of butter can sometimes work, but they can get wise to that).
But my first thought was not that, and I seriously wondered how one of these would work on a cat, and how you might need sedatives as well as leather gloves. The sedatives are for the cat, not you, of course, which brings us back to where we started.
(Technically, I guess you’d need to pill the cat in order to de-pill the cat, but ‘pill’ as a verb sent me straight to mental pictures of a thing that de-pills, not to the concept of giving cats pills.)
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De-pilling? Fuzz-Away? I liked it so much, I bought the company… hang about, I’m not Victor Kiam?!
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I’m pretty sure that The Avengers (as in Peel & Steed) had a joke about an electric razor that could be switched into a ‘reverse’ mode, but my Google-fu is weak today.
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