These are by far the best oven gloves I have ever used in over 40 years of cooking - I feel very safe using these as one has far more control of the baking tray/roasting tin than with other more cumbersome gloves with less 'feel'. I had an accident with silicone gloves (not from Lakeland) although very heatproof were very thick, so very little ability to control a hot flan tin with removable base, and the base tipped up as I took it from the oven, and a burn on the wrist resulted. Used the same tin with these gloves, no accidents. . Very glad I bought these. . .