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The Emporia => In the wardrobe => Technical Help => Topic started by: Bill on December 27, 2021, 13:40:14 PM
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Is it the same as insulated batting/wadding?
I'm aiming to make some matching oven gloves to go with mum's apron so she doesn't burn her pinkies off.
Fankoo.
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I believe the one that is commonly used is called Insul bright
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Just wondering if I can use ordinary batting/wadding.
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No. Absolutely, definitely not. About 25 years ago I made an oven glove with ordinary wadding - no use at all, the heat went straight through.
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Thanks @Acorn :)
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No @Bill Insulbrite is the wadding you need.
I use it for oven gloves, placemats, runners and mug rugs.
You can't use it for bowl cosies as it has metallic threads and so can't go in a microwave
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Just wondering if I can use ordinary batting/wadding.
Yes, absolutely, so long as it is 100% cotton and you use 2 or 3 layers of the stuff. NOT OK if it is polyester. Insul Brite is reflective but it's polyester and mylar so you still need cotton batting on both sides of it. It's great for other things though. The best fill I've ever found is cotton terrycloth. Have a stained towel or one with a hole in it? Great for pot holders. My absolute favorite purchased pot holders are 2 layers of towel with a thin batting between them with a pocket for your hand of yet another layer of terrycloth. You could practically use these puppies in a foundry to lift crucibles of molten metal.*
*OK. I'm exaggerating slightly. They would ignite from the heat. But a roasting pan or pizza from a 450F oven is no problem.
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No @Bill Insulbrite is the wadding you need.
I use it for oven gloves, placemats, runners and mug rugs.
You can't use it for bowl cosies as it has metallic threads and so can't go in a microwave
? I've never put a bowl cozy in the microwave. Is that a common usage? I've not heard of that before.
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If you are buying wadding for the oven gloves go for Insulbrite as the bits of reflective mylar in it will help deflect the heat, but if you want to use what you already have 100% cotton wadding will be fine - lots of people just use several thicknesses of folded tea towel (UK tea towels) for holding hot pans.
Just don't use the cheap polyester stuff as the heat will go straight through. 80/20 is probably OK. If you happen to have any (expensive) wool wadding that would be fine too.
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Thank you for all your help. Insulbright ordered. Can't have mum's pinkies roasted with the lamb.
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@Bill I like the suggestion of 100% cotton on both sides of insulbright.
I recently had an iron skillet warming on an electric eye. It had nothing in it, but I felt it was getting too warm and I sat it directly onto a store purchased oversized pot holder that seemed to have insulbright on one side, fabric on the other.. I sat the skillet directly onto the insulbright side.
Two minutes later, I was ready to use the skillet and so I grabbed it to set back onto the eye, not realizing the insulbright had melted onto the skillet. Which meant the potholder was melted onto the bottom of the skillet and I quickly lightly tapped the potholder onto the eye.
Had there been no insulbright, I would have just suffered the loss of one potholder and the cotton would have left a bit of soot.
Took me 3 hours to remove the melted polyester filling, polyester insulbrite and polyester fabric from the skillet bottom and the stove eye.
I would much prefer 100% cotton. But lining both sides of the insulbright sounds like a good idea too.
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I'll be stuffing some cotton fabric in the sammich as well as the actual fabric for the glove being cotton itself. No worries with it sticking to hot things :)