Chuds Meat Mitts

This is a Christmas gift! Have to let you know when he uses the product.

Turned out the snake wasnt real. I must have been pretty drunk. Still worked a treat for grabbing hot things out of the smoker though!

I like the design quite a bit, but had some frustration during assembly. One of the four legs had issues with the way they were tapped and I could not get the bolts to thread. When I get a chance I'll re-tap them - in the meantime the other two bolts are holding things upright well enough.

The pro grill grate system, on the other hand, had a more surprising issue: rust. It was clean when it arrived, but I foolishly unwrapped it and then got distracted. So it lay out, exposed for 2 days in my screened-in porch and we had rain on the second day with winds strong enough to spray the grill some. By the morning after it was all splotched with rust (photo attached), though the rest of the grill looks perfect. I'll soak it in a salt-vinegar solution and clean it up as soon as I can set aside time to follow that up by immediately seasoning the whole grill.

The only reason my star rating is low is that this is an incredibly expensive charcoal grill. For rust to appear after a single light exposure to water and for some rough machining of two of the structural threaded holes, the price seems to be a bit of a mis-match.

I'll have to come back and edit this review after I've had a chance to remove the rust and season the grill and use it. Until then, this 2/5 review should be considered more of an "unboxing" review, not an actual user review.

They do just what the product description says. They fit comfortably and make handling hot objects safe and easy.

Protects against heat, good quality, great price.