potholder
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I dipped them in the hardening brown goo with the scalding pan resting on a flowery potholder, one at a time, singeing my fingertips and waving my hand in pain.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
One of her children had once wrapped up a used potholder to put under the tree for her, and the other had made something from Legos.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
The Ojai artist weaves each 6-by-6-inch potholder by hand as a “form of embodied meditation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
One of my friends is sewing medical masks, using the loops from a child’s potholder weaving kit for the earpieces.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020
Use the potholder in one hand to hold the cover on, and with the other move the pan back and forth across the unit.
From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Eric B. Wilson
The potholders are sewn in the Frogtown shop and are machine washable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
In my kitchen I have a paper towel holder and hooks for potholders and scissors.
From Salon ● May 20, 2022
On “Salty Whiskey Caramel Sauce”: “Be extra careful … the sugar gets superhot and can burn you. Use potholders and stand back from the saucepot.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2016
Willis Henry Auctions in Marshfield, Mass., has been selling the estates of dealers and collectors, including Jerry McCue, Ed Clerk and Howard Fertig, who acquired Shaker objects as mundane as eyeglasses, potholders and clothes hangers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014
For the sake of argument let’s say Company X manufacturers potholders.
From Forbes ● Nov. 29, 2012
