How often do you wash your oven gloves?

[wendylovesbob]

My new cleaner seems to want to wash mine about every 8 minutes. It is driving me mad. Every time I turn around to grab them and take something out of the oven they are not there and I end up juggling with damp tea towels.

I was going to ask her to stop washing the bloody things (prior to her arrival they very rarely got a bath) but then It occurred to me that I might be a manky scrote, and maybe everyone else washes theirs as often as the tea towels too.

Well?

They are not dear - have someone give you another pair for your birthday. I wash mine about once a fortnight......

i wash mine about once every couple of months. Perhaps i'm a manky scrote too

I tend to chuck whichever one looks dirtier in with my towels/tea towels/flannels wash. Which I don't do that often - maybe once every 2 weeks - as I have masses of towels, tea towels and flannels. But then I do have two and make sure I never wash both at once.

I don't even own oven gloves.

Can't you just get yourself a spare one/set? I'm sure I've seen them at pound shops.... I have two, so when they occasionally get washed, there is another to hand.

When they look minging.

Not often enough
But yes, just buy another pair!

When they get stained, anywhere between once a week and once a quarter.

I prefer to use tea towels, easier to boil wash.

I do find they nearly always get something on them in the process of cooking.

Is it too sad to mention my ovengloves are from Lakeland and far superior to any i've ever come accross before?

mine get replaced before they need washing as I have a nasty habit of setting them alight ...

I have never washed mine.
I keep them in a drawer, safely out of sight.

when they smell, which is about twice a year.

I love MN

Never! I don't know what wash to put them in with.

I buy new ones.

You wash oven gloves??

Oh.

My two pairs of oven gloves are both from Lakeland, ethelina! And I too think they are extremely good.

I stick mine in with my whites whenever they look grubby - so they usually get cleaned anything from 1-4 times a month, depending on what I've been cooking.

Don't know about washing them, but I need some new ones = either green or aubergine/plummy colour if anyone has spotted any?!!!!

Oh, and I like 2 gloves not those joined together ones!!!!

oh ffs what a SAD thread

Nah, this is not a sad thread. And at least its not something that has been on Mumsnet a million times before.

This, otoh, is a sad thread.

Sad, as in limp, juvenile, unimaginative.

Mine get bunged in with the teatowels normally.

If we're requesting, I'm looking for an all-black glove suitable for opening my woodburner doors and dealing with bits of burnt without showing the charcoal.

This is a great thread I am in my element here.

ethelina - these ones in black would probably fit the bill. I'm quite tempted myself.... (OK, maybe that is a bit sad, but at least they wouldn't need laundering....)

I'm clearly in a skanky minority, but my oven gloves never get washed. My sister bought me a pair last year and I couldn't think why. Mine were still perfectcly serviceable. Just black.

perfectly

Thanks for that exexpat. Not sure about them though, reviews are mostly terrible. Will consider.