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
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
Five colorful crocheted heads — think of a painting that’s also a potholder — by the same artist amplify this impression.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
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
Then it was potholders made from a kit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
He is sent to a retirement home, where he and viewers suffer forced, unfunny scenes of Max being urged to knit potholders in the shape of kidneys.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2016
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
All kinds of potholders in all styles, colors, textures, etc.
From Forbes ● Nov. 29, 2012
Since users could potentially take the works and make, say, posters or potholders adorned with a work from its collection, will the move cut into the revenue the museum gets from its shop?
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2011
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