High temp fiber material comes in about shape you can think of, square blocks, round bars, sheets, flat strips. I use a lot of it, as easy to work as hardwood.
There is glass mat you can shape, then add heat proof resin to, I've seen it but never used it.
Don't think I'd like to try and manage loose brass with them, but the anti-burn gloves like fast food workers wear around deep fryers would work if you brass was in stripper clips or some kind of jig...
Stripper clips loosen up, I thought they might be easy to load/unload.
Stripper clips have been around since the bolt action rifle and you might have to look around a little, but they are available for about every size case...
And if you can't find your size, they are pretty easy to make, just rolled tin.
Since the small pot seems to burn you a lot...
*IF* you were to expand this some, the heating rod/bar heating element from electric oven, deep fryer, and the oven/deep fryer current controller would allow you to scale this up.
The stripper clips/fixture with long rows (plural) would allow you to drop several dozen at a time.
Since brass doesn't need to be quenched/cooled, once loaded in fixture, heat them and just set the rack aside, do another rack, set it aside...
Since we all handle brass during processing, just rack them when you are already handling them, stopping an extra step.