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?

as often as I see I thread like this :) Ikea, white cotton gloves, FWIW. And they come up a treat on a boil wash.

Never! I figure the extreme heat kills the bacteria. I chuck 'em away when they fall apart.

mine are disgusting, I have had them 2 years and never thought to wash them until the new puppy whipped them off the oven door and thought they were tasty, so tomorrow I will buy new ones and wash them in two years

I don't even bother...

ethelina - oh yes, I just had a look at the reviews - not good. But a friend has some silicone ones that do seem to work - must be a different, thicker brand...

Maybe this one would be better - I have a lot of Built neoprene things, and they are very good quality.

Ooooooohhhhhhhh!!

I think I'm in love

Top marks exexpat

I thought I was going to read this and discover that I am beyond skanky as I don't wash them very often but I am relieved ( and even ) at the amount of people who never wash them

Manky scrote gang member here! I do mine when I notice they've got a bit stiff and shiny! YUCK!

all the time, they get manky just as quickly as teatowels IMO
but I have loads of them so it doesn't matter

Sad or not, it is a very MN thread. I pretty much ran to my computer when I realised I was pondering the issue .

My autocorrect keeps wanting to change 'manky scrote' to Manly Scrota.

Ours keep disintegrating. We had a lovely Le Cruset glove, in black and cream, till DH bleached it. Now it is off white and pale brown

If this thread is sad, I don't want to be happy

I would never wash mine! I thought that washing them might ruin the heat-protectyness of the wadding/asbestos/whatever stuff is inside them.

Another manky person here too. Only if I see something has spilled on them. They take ages to dry.

I only used to do them every couple of months, but now I have a dog who thinks they are the most delicious thing ever! So I have to wash them every time they have been left in reach of his tongue, can't bear the thought of dog lick all over them.

Um, I don't think I've ever washed mine, I stole my mums when i moved out because I liked it, I'm not sure how long she had it nor how often it was washed.

I'm so going to be washing it now though!

Feel a bit better now, thought everyone would be washing every week! I wash mine approx every month or unless they look really manky :(

Never occurred to me to wash them!! Mine just sit on the oven rail looking nice and I use tea towels to get stuff out of the oven and burn my hands

Lucky you having a cleaner.

Oooh I'm quite clean then - about every couple of weeks. But erm, some of you have different types of washes? I just bung everything in, either colours or whites.

I haven't cleaned the floors in bloody ages though and ds has just started to pick up random crap and eat it. So probably should do that instead of constantly washing the blinking ovenglove!