Cool Tools: These Spectra/Kevlar gloves are used in the restaurant industry to defend against knife and mandolin cuts, as well as handling trash that may have protruding bits of glass and fish bones. I read about them in a cooking magazine, and bought one glove after cutting myself on a mandolin.
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As someone whose hands are literally always cold, I can appreciate an article that takes a look at the best kinds of gloves. I have Reynaud's syndrome, and so blood doesn’t circulate properly in my hands, which is especially bad in the cold, and can cause me to have a variety of other issues. I for some reason have also decided that I like being outside when it’s cold, I live in a cold climate, and also like to ski, and hike and stuff. So I’ve tried many different kinds of gloves and mittens, and typically I find that I prefer mittens because they’re warmer. However this does make it difficult to do much of anything, given that my fingers are then all stuck together. Maybe I’ll have to try out some of these gloves they have listed and see if any of them are helpful in my quest to find a way to keep my hands warm and still be able to do things.
My biggest problem with gloves is finding ones that fit right. When I go in person to a store often the only options I have for gloves are sizes large or occasionally medium. Many women that I have talked to have bemoaned this lack of choices for gloves. I have found that some manufacturers don’t make gloves small enough for my hands even though I don’t have unusually small hands. Most gloves are made for thicker fingers and that means that people with slimmer fingers have to choose between the length of the glove fitting or the width fitting. In my personal experience if I don’t have easy access to well fitting gloves I will forgo gloves entirely in order to maintain full hand dexterity, and while this world in some use cases it can be dangerous in others. There are a few brands that make gloves specifically for women, but these brands more often than not gear their products towards gardeners or use frilly or pink patterns to be more feminine.
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