I do overnight briskets on a pellet smoker every couple weekends and these handle the temperature swings well. The ridged texture gives me a solid grip on the grates and the cuff is long enough to keep my forearm safe when I reach back to the heat shield. Bought a second pair so I can rotate when one gets greasy.
Have an Ooni Karu and my old silicone gloves were melting at the door. These hold up to repeated turns on a pizza peel at full temperature. Black color hides the soot which is a small thing but I'll take it. Three months in and they look almost new.
I use a Weber kettle and a chimney starter every weekend. The chimney handle gets brutal after a long cook and these are the first gloves I've owned that let me grab it without scrambling. Long cuff keeps the heat off my forearm when I reach over the coals. Red loop is nice for hanging on the side of the table.
Our team does five comps a year and I've gone through cheap gloves every season. Bought these mid-March and they're still going strong after three competitions and a lot of backyard practice. Heat resistance is real, dexterity is good enough to handle butcher paper and tools. The red cuff matched our team color which sealed it.
Use these for cast iron work, both indoor and on the campfire. They handle the lid of my Dutch oven straight off the coals. Knocked one star because the ridged texture makes them slightly stiffer than I'd want for fine work like flipping small skewers, but for grabbing handles and lifting heavy cookware they're great.
Had a silicone BBQ glove that always felt slippery on hot handles. These have actual grip from the ridged texture. Used them through smoke season on a kamado and a side burner. No melting, no slipping. Worth the upgrade over silicone.
I cook for our tailgate crew every home game and ended up with burns on my forearms every season from the grill. These cover well past my wrist and I can flip a brisket point without thinking about heat. Black hides the BBQ sauce splatter and the loop hangs them off my cooler when I'm done.
I run a stick burner offset smoker and tend it manually for fourteen hour cooks. These are on and off my hands constantly through a session. The cuff is long enough that I can reach into the firebox to adjust splits without getting cooked. Holds up to the abuse better than my last three pairs combined.
Ordered these for general grill duty and they're stiffer than I expected. The ridged texture is good for grip but it makes pinching small things like skewer ends awkward. Quality of the gloves seems fine and the heat resistance is what they advertise. For grabbing handles and lifting they're great. For precision work they fight me. Mid-tier rating because it depends on what you're using them for.