Today, we're taking a look at three types
of heat resistant gloves,
and seeing how they hold up against the stove, hot steel,
and a furnace.
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YouTube user ShishiR wanted to see
how long it takes for heat-resistant gloves to burn.
As someone who often
uses and relies upon heat-resistant gloves,
this question is near and dear to my heart,
and I thought it was a great thing to test out.
So that's what we're going to do.
Here's the basic idea.
Each of our three types of gloves will be put to the test
in different scenarios to see just how heat-resistant
they really are.
First up, we have a pair of oven mitts.
These things say
that they are silicone coated cloth,
and I think they're supposed to be rated up to about
500 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is going to be good
for pulling most everything out of the oven,
but not necessarily some of the stuff we do here
on this channel.
Standard oven mitts,
about what you've seen before, pull things out of the oven.
Pretty low dexterity
because all your fingers are together with just the thumb
off to the side.
Hello.
How are you?
That would make a decent whale puppet.
Next up, we've got leather furnace gloves.
These are usually used for furnace work or for welding.
And so I'm pretty familiar with these.
We've definitely used
gloves just like this here on the channel quite a bit.
They worked pretty well, pulling stuff out of the foundry,
putting stuff into the foundry,
but I have had some issues with that.
Weirdly, we've had several pairs of these gloves
where the right index finger
getting the most heat exposure ended up shrinking over time,
until I could barely fit my hand into the glove anymore.
Lastly, we have these,
which are supposed to be barbecue gloves they say.
However, these are rated up to about 500 degrees Fahrenheit,
these say they're rated up to about 950 degrees Fahrenheit.
These ones claim
that they are heat resistant up to 1,450 degrees Fahrenheit.
So these are the highest rated.
and I've never tried these out before.
They are stretchy,
and they have sort of silicone pads on the front
to give you some more grip when you're holding on to things.
They're clearly knit.
Like you can see the texture.
It just looks kind of like winter gloves texture.
Although, they're much much thicker.
We're going to test each of these,
putting our hand on a hot stove, grabbing a red-hot bar of steel,
and putting our hands near or inside our foundry.
I am actually putting myself at risk for this.
I'm going to be the test subject.
Today, we're going to start with a stove.
We're going to turn up the heat, and see
how long I can keep my hand on the stove,
in the glove before it starts feeling really uncomfortable.
We're going to let it get red hot,
and then I am not going to touch it with my bare hand.
I'm going to touch it with a mitten hand,
and then two gloves.
Start to get hot.
Let's see where this is at right now.
Registering at 226.
Now, that is the surface temperature of the glass.
This thing is using infrared.
It can't see through the glass surface.
About to hit 500 Fahrenheit.
There it is, 500 Fahrenheit.
At this point, a drop of water just explodes boiling,
and then we get some drips moving around
with the Ladenfrost effect.
We just hit 935 Fahrenheit, which is 500 degrees Celsius.
Seems like the time to put our hand on it.
Alright, here we go.
About to put my hand on a hot stove in the oven mitt.
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Well, that was quick.
When someone says it's heat resistant up to 450,
maybe 500 Degrees,
you probably shouldn't put it down on a 950 degrees surface.
That was maybe like one second, I think?
Did not last very long.
All right.
Well, despite how long that didn't last,
we're going to progress on to the next gloves.
Okay, here it goes.
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That was mostly me reacting to the smoke I saw coming off,
but it did start burning one finger over on that side.
Yeah.
Okay.
Just about one second,
and it started getting too hot down inside.
Everywhere that was actually pressing hard against the glass,
and my pinky finger was what was pressing the most,
and that got uncomfortably hot very quickly.
I am going to try one more thing,
and that's I'm not going to press down on the glass.
I'm just going to hold my hand over the stove.
Smoking quite a bit.
Too hot.
Leather gloves on the stove.
More protection than the oven mitts,
but not by a lot.
Now, we have these barbecue gloves,
which in theory, give us the most heat resistance.
The one thing I want to test is if it sticks,
because if it melts and sticks,
and I can't pull my hand away as quickly,
that would be huge problem.
So I'm just gonna test with one finger over here.
So we've got some burning.
Full-scale test, here it goes.
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Wow, I'm actually very impressive at that.
I left my hand on there for several seconds.
The other gloves
got maybe one second before they started smoking,
and in one case, burst into flames.
A lot of smoke on the leather, a lot of fire on the oven mitts.
This was actually much better.
I pulled my hand off when it got uncomfortably hot,
but it was only just barely uncomfortably hot.
The leather went from nothing, nothing,
nothing, uncomfortably hot, you've burned yourself.
With this glove, it didn't actually do that.
It got warmer and warmer,
and I thought, this is now uncomfortable.
Pulled my hand off,
pulled the glove off, never got to the point
where I felt like my hand was actually burning.
I'm quite impressed.
Let's try the next thing.
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Alright, at this point, we have a steel bar
that is glowing nicely orange.
We're not just gonna go
and grab right onto the red part of the bar.
That's going to burn the gloves, it's going to be a lot
like putting it on the stove but faster.
I don't want to injure my hands.
So we're going to do is compare and see
how close we can get,
how far up the bar
toward that red part we can get without hurting yourself.
So, I'm actually gonna do a control
with just my bare hands.
I know that the back of this isn't burning me,
but I'm going to see how close to the orange part
I can get with my bare hand before it's uncomfortable.
And then I'm going to go through the other types
of gloves, and see how well they protect me.
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Little more, not uncomfortable yet.
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Now, getting-- Oh!
Yep, just about there.
The top half of my hand is uncomfortably hot.
So we've got these two weld marks on here.
Just below those,
that's as close as I could get.
That was burning my hand
uncomfortable to leave it there for more than a second or two.
Yep, and then anything higher than that,
it just burns too quick.
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All right, starting pretty close to what was the maximum
with my bare hands.
Now this right here was too hot with my bare hand.
I couldn't handle it.
So far, not really problem with this glove.
Moving up a little bit more.
Oh, definitely feeling heat now.
Oh, I got smoke coming off the glove.
Still my hands actually all right.
My hand was actually doing okay,
even though the mitten caught on fire,
and now there's a big hole in it
because I think some of the stitches burned.
So, that's actually pretty impressive.
The stitches failed,
and it caught on fire, and my hand was only,
you know warm.
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Whoo.
Yeah, there we go.
That's just all coming apart, nice and singed.
No longer good for cookies.
All right, we're starting right here.
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I'm feeling nothing, not even warmth.
Moving up.
My hand is now like an inch and a half away from the orange.
I see smoke on the glove.
Oh, that got through because it's done that.
I'm now kind of-- Oh, wow.
I don't know how well you can see that,
but the whole glove just shrink.
Look at this.
I'm not moving my hand.
It's just contracting the leather.
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Well, that was flat a bit ago.
My hand is actually okay.
It's very warm.
It's not burning me.
Starting really close to the orange part.
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I felt it, little spot on my thumb.
Oh, I've got a hole right there.
I'm just gonna go orange part right on the palm.
That is crazy.
It's just warm.
All right, now it's getting hot.
Oh, it's on fire.
Well, I think we found the stress point
where that dies out.
Despite that, my hand just barely got uncomfortably hot,
and that was pressing the red hot bar of steel
down onto this glove for several seconds.
I gotta say,
I'm really impressed with these things.
When they say they are heat resistant,
they're not kidding around.
Thousand-degree, nice, got nothing on that.
That was well over a thousand degrees.
That was probably more like 1,500 to 1,800 degrees.
But now, I want to see
how these handle actually protecting my hand
as it goes into the furnace.
So I'm just going to sort of carve out a little spot.
I'm going to reach in, and see how they do.
First, we got this Mitten.
This is the one that got burned on the stove.
At least the seams are all intact.
So I'm just going to kind of lower my hand
in protected side down,
see how long this keeps me feeling safe.
One, two...
It's on fire.
So an oven mitt that catches on fire.
I gotta say,
although I know I'm misusing it,
I feel like that's not a good design choice.
Leather glove.
Let's see how this protects my hand,
just sort of chilling out right in the hot spot.
This is already doing way better than the oven mitt.
Oh, the fingers are contracting.
Oh, hot!
As we saw with the other glove,
when the leather heats up too much,
it just contracts.
In this case,
the first indication I had that something was wrong was
that my fingers are getting squished.
And our fancy barbecue gloves.
Now, this is the one
that I have not melted any seams open on.
Yeah.
There's the back.
Pretty hot.
Not burning me hot, but...
All right.
That's a-- Oh!
Yep.
There we go.
That was just a little bit harder to take off of my hand.
However, pretty impressed with that.
Oven mitts, good for pulling cookies out of the oven.
Not good for anything else.
Don't touch a hot stove.
Don't put an oven mitt in a furnace.
Leather gloves.
Definitely better than the oven mitts.
However, they do still have a tendency to light on fire,
or at least smoke a lot.
They shrink when they get too hot,
and they really have a point
where they go from it doesn't hurt
to "Oh, that's pretty warm-- Ow!"
And just skips over "it's getting hot,"
and goes right into burning.
These gloves that are for barbecuing,
or whatever else you're using them for, I'm actually
quite impressed with.
I would say the biggest downside is
that it does actually slow
my hands down a little bit trying to pull out.
This restricted cuff,
while it might be good for aesthetics
or even functionality of using the gloves,
I don't like that it's harder to pull my hands out.
However, these did an impressive job
of resisting the heat.
There's one more thing I want to try, the question
that was actually posed to us is how long does it take
for them to burn.
So we're just gonna do a quick test,
and drop them down into the furnace,
and see how long it actually takes
for them to light on fire.
We're gonna just toss this on, and see how long it takes.
1, 2, 3, 4...
4 seconds before we started seeing flames fly off of it.
All right, leather glove.
Can you beat four seconds?
1, 2, 3, 4...
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22..
I'm not sure this is going to light on fire,
because we're already at like 25 seconds,
and while it's definitely shrinking and shriveled,
and very hot and smoking, it hasn't caught on fire.
So how long did it take to burn?
I would say after about six or seven seconds.
I would have declared it as burning.
But in terms of getting it to light on fire,
it's lasted quite well so far.
Okay, leather glove, will light on fire?
Yes.
How long did it take?
That was a couple of minutes.
It's so deformed,
and it's got like these stubby little fingers now.
That really shrinks quite a bit in the heat.
All right, fancy barbecue glove.
How do you do?
Four seconds with the oven mitt,
a couple minutes to actually get the leather gloves
catch on fire.
Oh, that looks like it's already on fire.
That was quick.
That's very surprising given how well it resisted heat before.
That's on fire.
I think it's the silicone actually caught on fire.
That's interesting.
So the leather glove resists catching on fire better.
This resists just general heat better.
ShishiR, thank you for your comment suggestion.
We've learned some good things about gloves today.
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