Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I live in the coldest city in North America, so I'm always checking out new cold weather gear. I've been looking for the perfect glove for zero to -40 and while these aren't it, I'm actually quite pleased with the pair. These are some thick gloves, lots of insulation and comfortable to wear. The heavy insulation does slightly limit articulation, especially at the fingertips, but that's usually expected. These do a good job down when sustained to about -20 or so, but beyond that, it's difficult for your hands to generate enough heat to maintain what you'd call "warmth." At really cold temps, below -20, it seems that only a pair of high quality mittens are sufficient for these temperatures. For the coldest of days, my go to is a pair of Black Diamond Mercury mittens which I've personally tested down to 52 below. For short periods, like a drive to work, these gloves will work fine even to -40F though. What does impress me, though, is that I see roughly similar performance to a very high quality, $150+ pair of cold weather guide gloves. That's spectacular for the cost of these things. While I prefer those guide gloves for hard work out in the bitter cold, these are great for every day use when I don't need heavy use of my hands. I've used these gloves to rock my snowthrower through -20F for more than an hour, more than once. It's not comfortable, but I can get through what I need to and that's a difficult application to build any technical gear for. For the value, these are pretty good for some non-brand name gloves. Edit: There's a lot more reviews for these gloves these days. My positive review in an extreme environment probably helped influence that. It's apparent that there are different tolerance levels to cold. These gloves don't have built in heaters, your hands are not going to be 68F degrees even at barely freezing temperatures. I think of these gloves as a measure of protection against the alternative, frostbite. Cold isn't comfortable. The temperatures where some people are having trouble with these gloves are where I begin to think about putting a long sleeve shirt on. If you're not a cold weather person, you should probably consider battery heated gloves or better yet, HotHands glove inserts. When I talk about going an hour+ at a snowthrower below negative 20...it's a given that I'm using HotHands inserts. You may still need to outfit for your specific conditions.