What a Strategist Can Learn from Oven Mitts
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:43 am
Column – This is a story about strategy, starting with oven mitts. I used to not be a fan of oven mitts. I didn’t hate them, but I was never really impressed by them either. Now you could argue that oven mitts aren’t that important. That they just have to work. And that’s exactly where the problem lies for me, because they don’t do their job.
The problem
My experience with oven mitts is as follows: when email list b2b I take, say, lasagna out of the oven, I invariably burn my fingers. I quickly pull my hands away from the oven dish and wave the cheerful print in the air, or quickly take the mitts off again.
I also manage to regularly – wearing oven mitts – tap my forearm against the edge of the oven. Ouch. Sometimes I want to use a fork to check whether the lasagna sheets are done, but then my fingers are unfortunately stuck in that colourful bag of cotton wool, so I have to coordinate the landing of the fork by chance and with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. Oven mitts don't work or at best: very temporarily.
Oven gloves for sale at Bol.com
Oven gloves for sale at Bol.com
How such an everyday product can still be so inconvenient is a mystery to me. As a product, oven gloves structurally cause me mild frustration. The function is marginally better than using a tea towel. And for that non-solution you easily pay 10 to 15 euros. And what frustrates me most: there must be a better solution?
The problem
My experience with oven mitts is as follows: when email list b2b I take, say, lasagna out of the oven, I invariably burn my fingers. I quickly pull my hands away from the oven dish and wave the cheerful print in the air, or quickly take the mitts off again.
I also manage to regularly – wearing oven mitts – tap my forearm against the edge of the oven. Ouch. Sometimes I want to use a fork to check whether the lasagna sheets are done, but then my fingers are unfortunately stuck in that colourful bag of cotton wool, so I have to coordinate the landing of the fork by chance and with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. Oven mitts don't work or at best: very temporarily.
Oven gloves for sale at Bol.com
Oven gloves for sale at Bol.com
How such an everyday product can still be so inconvenient is a mystery to me. As a product, oven gloves structurally cause me mild frustration. The function is marginally better than using a tea towel. And for that non-solution you easily pay 10 to 15 euros. And what frustrates me most: there must be a better solution?