Cook's Illustrated

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METHODOLOGY

• Test nine models (five mitts, two gloves, and two double mitts), priced from about $9.50 to about $66.00 per set

• Working in a hot oven, rotate and remove a baking sheet filled with cookies

• Lift and remove a Dutch oven filled with simmering water from a hot oven, and then pour the water into the sink

• Lift and replace a hot Dutch oven lid three times

• Maneuver a pie plate filled with fragile raw pie dough into a hot oven and then out of the oven once the pie

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