Oven Rack Guard Double Pack

I love baking during the holidays but there is nothing fun or attractive about sporting burn marks on your arms for the rest of the winter! The "Oven Rack Gaurd" is the perfect solution to baking without burns. Easy to snap onto the oven racks and easy to take off to wash. Now when my masterpiece is ready to come out of the oven I don't have to search for those huge oven mits that go up to my forearms. Any pot holder works fine because the oven rack guard is always in place! I loved them so much that I gave them as gifts to friends that like to bake.

Such a simple idea, but done very well...well enough that more than a few people have remarked "I could have thought of that" when they saw it in the oven. The idea is really rather elegant...if you do a lot of baking, roasting, or what have you, odds are you've burned yourself more than a couple of times on oven racks. These are guards that protect your uncovered areas from burns caused by inadvertent contact. And yes, I suppose one could DIY a guard out of some heatproof cloth or something...but this is done so nicely that it's really not worth the bother to reverse engineer it. It works, and works well. I'm very happy with these guards.

Third time around with these guys. These provide great protection against burns when putting things in or out of the oven. They snap into place along the front edge of each oven shelf, protecting the hands and wrists from inadvertent contact with a hot rack. They come off easily for washing, and we've never had a snap break or fall off. However, over time they will pick up grease and stains that just will not wash out, requiring a replacement if, like us, you have a large window in the oven door and want to present a nice appearance. We've replaced these about every three to four year because of that. Otherwise these things likely will last forever. They are only 16-inches wide, so they don't protect the entire front edge of a rack, but we haven't found that to be an issue.

I read about this product and thought it was a great idea because I thought it would: 1. Stay cool enough in the over that you would be able to pull out the oven rack without an oven mit to check the temperature or flip what your cooking. They do stay cooler longer than the metal rack, but they get way to hot to be able to grab and pull out the rack without an oven mit. 2. Make it so touching the rack would be no big deal...like what's shown in the picture here for the product. Maybe I'm just a complete baby when it comes to heat, but they get plenty hot to make it uncomfortable to touch them. The will probably prevent you from getting burned, but you still don't want to bump them after you've had something in the over at 400 for 30 minutes. Unfortunately, in addition to not providing the two benefits I thought they would they also have a negative drawback: 1. With these on your oven racks you can not easily slide dishes/pans off the rack because the "guard" creates a lip that you have to pick the dish/pan up over to remove from the oven. This is just annoying and actually forces you to reach into the oven more making it more likely you will come into contact with the other rack. All in all, a great idea that doesn't perform.

I am not a great chef . . . I make many blunders in the kitchen. One of my most death defying acts is trying to reach in between my oven racks to move or adjust something on a cooking sheet (like potatoes). I know, I am suppose to pull the rack out and do what ever needs to be done (like turning over frozen foods fish and chips). Well, no matter how careful I am I eventually burn myself on the top rack. OUCH! These protectors are wonderful. No more burns. They do give off a slight odor the first few times. Not horrible but noticeable. Hey, no more burns and now no more odor . . . great investment! If you're a mom teaching kids to cook - great safety feature!

I'm one of those people who has a perpetual burn on her arm from reaching into the oven, so buying this item was a no-brainer for me. First, installation: the snaps are not at the perfect distance apart for my particular oven racks, so I had to stretch the product a bit in one place and wrinkle it in another so the snaps would clear the bars. It isn't very stretchable, but the bars are so thin, I didn't really have a problem with adjusting it. Second, the smell: On my first use, I had the oven at 475 degrees F. (the max is 500). The product gave off a strong chemical smell. I haven't used the oven a second time since then, so I don't know if the smell will linger. Third, the product isn't long enough to stretch the entire length of the oven racks, so there's a couple of inches that are bare on either end if you center it. Not really a problem unless you're reaching into that extreme edge of the oven. Overall I'm happy with this product and would purchase it again.

Nice addition to my oven, i usually hit my wrist on the oven rack when putting stuff in and taking it out. These do the trick, preventing burns if you touch them.