Comments on: Reader Find: Gorgonz’ Exhale Cold Weather Gloves

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Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:10:20 +0000

[...] Gorgonz’ Exhale Cold Weather Gloves These gloves have a small one-way vent which you can blow in to keep your hands warm. Readers liked the gloves’ other features, but weren’t really sold on the valve. Be sure to check out comments for some great suggestions on similar cold-weather gloves. [...]

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:51:18 +0000

Working in oil and gas in the frozen north, the cheap white cotton glove liners are popular (~$6 for 10). They’re pretty much disposable, and they don’t really keep your hands warm, so much as slow down the rate at which they get cold, but they allow good dexterity. If you use them with disposable pocket warmers, that helps too.

Another trick is to rotate two pairs of work gloves. One pair on your hands, the others roasting on your truck dashboard, over the defroster vents. When your hands start to get cold, just swap ‘em out.

I hate getting cold hands, especially when you let it go for too long, to the point where they’re completely numb. Once they start to warm up and get feeling back, it feels like they just got freshly slammed in a door.

By: Hank

Hank — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:12:06 +0000

Don’t know about the comfort of the glove, or it’s durability, but the hole idea sure sounds silly. Next, I expect to see a promotion for a glove that is supposed to keep your hands warm, but first, you stick your hand in a pan of warm water. Same principle. The writer nailed it when he said adding moisture to a glove(from one’s warm breath that remains warm for about 4 seconds on cold hands) promotes colder hands.

Ever try the battery warmed socks? Idea is great until you relize that the warmth continues and begins to make your feet sweat, even standing still. When you walk a lot in them, your feet are soon swimming. When you turn the switch off, you just have wet, cold feet.

HumBug

By: nrChris

nrChris — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:22:23 +0000

I am with Paul on this one–the sun is shining today. I want someone to invent steel toed flip flops that I can wear on the job!

One of my construction industry co-workers swears by these, but a lot of people seem to complain about the fit. For the money they would certainly be worth a try–only looking at a ~$4 premium over the mechanix style gloves.

By: bbot

bbot — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:47:59 +0000

I have these. They’re okay, I guess. I hardly ever use the exhale thing (which actually works pretty well) but the seams in the fingertip are irritating.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:46:20 +0000

Warm weather is right around the corner who needs gloves for cold weather? Lets see posts about flip flops!

By: benjamen

benjamen — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:44:04 +0000

I remember several years ago out local TV (Minneapolis) consumer reporter did a comparison test. I don’t remember all the details, but I remember that after several hours a good pair of similar, but without the air valve, gloves kept your hands warmer.

By: Lee Gibson

Lee Gibson — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:04:07 +0000

I’m a little curious about the effect of the moisture from your breath being stuck in the gloves.

The first order of business in staying warm is staying dry. How do these gloves handle that?

By: ian

ian — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:37:40 +0000

I work construction and I’ve been using the 650’s for about a month now, and they work great. I’m on my second pair by now, but they sure keep warm with a lot more dexterity than bulkier work gloves.