Great Break-in Process for a New Glove

Once again a great idea comes from our customers.

This is also from Walt H. in the Mobile area.  Using our Mitt-Spit Break-in product on a very stiff A2000 baseball glove, Walt came up with a brilliant strategy for speeding up to break-in process.

Using two socks filled with rice that was warmed up in his microwave oven (about 30 seconds), Walt put one warmed rice-filled sock on the bottom of a small soft-sided insulated cooler.  He applied Mitt-Spit Break-in to the glove and then put the second warmed rice-filled sock into the glove pocket and laid the glove on top of the rice-filled sock already inside the cooler.  Then closed the cooler.  About 3 hours later, he pulled the glove out and was ready to play ball!

So here's how that works.  The break-in oil is very viscous.  So it's loaded with the right ingredients for softening the leather.  Because it's so viscous, it takes a long time to be absorbed by the glove.  However, the gentle warming of the glove with the warmed-up rice -filled socks reduced the viscosity of the critical ingredient in Mitt-Spit Break-in allowing the leather to rapidly absorb this essential ingredient, rendering the glove fully broken in.  Genius!

Thank you Walt for this great idea.

Additional thoughts...  Never put a glove in the microwave directly.  The microwave function warms something up by agitating the water molecules (H2O) in the target.  If you use a microwave to heat food, you know it heats unevenly.  If you use it on a glove, then some areas of the leather will dry out much faster than others.  You risk permanently damaging the leather.  Once damaged, it cannot be recovered.  Whereas the rice-filled sock approach gradually and gently warms uniformly.  go to Mitt-Spit Products to buy the correct products for your glove.