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Though they look a little wacky, silicone oven mitts can be hugely helpful in the kitchen.

Baking can be a hazardous sport if you don't have the right equipment. I don't know how many times I've burned myself trying to take a tin of muffins or a heavy cookie sheet out of the oven, holding onto it with a worn oven mitt or worse, a kitchen towel, frantically looking for a place to set it down. (I won't mention how many times I've also burned my mouth impatiently "tasting" something 350 degrees right out of the oven!)

Silicone oven mitts are awesome, as they don't seem to wear out like regular fabric ones do. These mitts from HearthSong are cute, too, which means baking chocolate chip cookies with the kids will be that much more fun. I kinda wish they had a pig, though.

They're $9.95.