Product Description

Handle the heat in the kitchen with the futuristic-looking Mastrad ORKA Silicone Miracle Mitt. The translucent blue mitt fits either hand and features an advanced ribbed design that provides a firm, steady grip with hot handles and grills. It's even strong enough to handle charcoal, fat and oil! The Orka is the only waterproof cooking mitt, so it protects you from boiling water too. The Mitt resists stains, is heat resistant up to 300°C and does not deteriorate on contact with heat. It's washable under the tap, in the dishwasher or washing machine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12376 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Mastrad
• Released on: 2003-03-06
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Appropriately named, the ORKA oven mitt looks like a whale. It will swim in to pull lobsters from boiling water or allow you to lift a basket of French fries from the deep fryer. Made of non-porous, food-grade silicone, the mitt is designed to withstand temperatures up to 300 degrees Celsius without melting, staining or letting in moisture. This makes the ORKA ideal for cooking with boiling water or oil or using over grills or open flames. Slip-resistant "teeth" on the mitt's grasping surface provide a sure grip when lifting greasy or wet pots. At 11 inches long, the mitt is long enough to protect the forearm and fit either right or left hands of all sizes. For easy cleaning, the ORKA goes into the dishwasher with the rest of your pots and pans. This product was the top gadget at the 2002 Excellence in Housewares Awards and has also been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America and CNN. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

Not as good as I had hoped, but great for BBQs
Bought one of these a while back with high hopes.

Pros:
Funky cool blue looking thing
Grips well with its teeth
Quite happily survives dishwasher
Really does resist heat
Does not get saturated with oil or water and transmit heat like traditional mitts can

Cons:
Awkward to use (I'm used to double-ended oven mitts) especially when getting roasting dishes out
Looks worrying in use, like the plastic might melt!
Just generally rather clumsy to use

Now mine stays in the drawer and I stick with "old school" mitts.

However. Come barbeque time it's great. If like me you usually end up singing the hair on your hands & wrists then this really can help. I don't use it every time but it's good for longer grilling sessions.

Better looking than a normal glove
I got a couple of these because you can wash them and they are better looking than a normal glove. But they are not fantastic. Two problems I have noticed are they sometimes let heat through in the thinner bits of the glove - especially near the ridges where you grip around the fingers- not enough to burn you but quite hot all the same. The second problem is they are quite in flexible so be careful not to drop stuff. Also why to they sell them singly? You really need two which is quite expensive.

Orka Oven Glove
There's no doubt that the glove can take the temperatures described, however, the inflexible design of the glove makes it very hard to actually grasp anything. Its virtually impossible to get a hot plate out of a microwave, the ovens not much better either. On the whole, I could have lived without it. Good idea, not practicle