I went to the Dollarama yesterday to pick up a pair of oven mitts for my mother’s kitchen. Nothing complicated about that. Or so I thought.
There were, I discovered, no “pairs” of oven mitts. What they had for sale instead were two-packs of oven mitts. That’s not two pairs, but two mitts sold together. Which sounded odd to me, since that’s how you usually buy gloves. You want two of them because you have two hands. But these weren’t pairs of oven mitts, but two mitts for the same hand.
Now, for a lot of oven mitts there is no righty and lefty because both sides are the same. But these mitts were cloth on one side and a silicone surface on the other (the side you grip with). So I couldn’t buy a “pair” of gloves — that is, a right and a left-handed glove — but only a two-pack of right-handed gloves.
Am I missing something? What sense does this make? If you’re going to make oven mitts that like this and package them together, shouldn’t there be a right and left-handed glove in each package? And what if you’re left-handed? Some things I just can’t figure out.
Alex Good 
I have done the same. I bought someone oven gloves for Christmas, and they were attached to each other. How everyone laughted when it turned out they were both left handed gloves. But what else was I meant to do?
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This is why I feel like I’m missing something. Do most people only use one hand (and hence only need one glove) to take something out of the oven? So that you only need one for your right hand, and if you want to buy two you must want two right-handed gloves, with one as a back-up? It makes no sense.
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WTH kind of Christmas present is oven gloves??
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I’ve given, and received, worse.
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Haha, well I’ve recieved worse (a trowel!!) but never given worse. AT least I don’t think I have, no-one has complained so far anyway!
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OOF! Received not recieved!! Schoolgirl error, hanging head in shame.
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This is the Internets.
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I use a double oven mitt so no left and right, any hand goes in either side.
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That’s the kind I use as well. And I understand making them so that there’s a left and a right. What I don’t get is not packaging a left and a right together and instead selling them as a “two-pack” of two rights.
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I suppose it depends where they’re made. There might be a lot of double lefty or double right people working there.
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They’d have some weird machinery!
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It would make a good sci-fi story.
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