If you are still experiencing issues, please describe the problem below and we will be happy to assist you. There once was a boy, a boy with a dream that -- one day -- he could get an Easy Bake oven.
The commercials made it look like the greatest thing on the planet. I figured, if I could get that, I would basically have an unlimited supply of brownies -- because that's how ovens work, right? However, my wishes never came true, as a result of A my mom being smart enough not to buy me one or B me being too much of a wuss to ask for a girl's toy when I was 8. I can't really remember. But seeing as how I am, in fact, no longer 8 and am percent willing to walk into a toy store and buy a pretty pink oven It could be for my niece or something , today is the day that I claim my victory in the form of a horribly inefficient and impractical oven.
Take that, mom! Just kidding. I love you mom. Happy birthday in about a week. It was there that I crossed the impermeable pink threshold into the girls section that the year-old version of myself would walk around the whole store to avoid.
And it turns out the exceedingly pink-colored sections of toy stores have really cool stuff. Sure, it lacks the fake swords upon which the lofty desires of my youth were centered.
But there was a Chocolate Candy Bar Maker and a fake taco set. Tacos are basically the swords of food in terms of coolness. I went there wanting a real Easy Bake Oven, and that means I got the pretty pink one, dammit. The cooking process was an adventure in its own. Here's the recap of trying to make the pizza. Here's the end result of the Easy Bake experiments. Place teaspoon size drops onto cooking pan. You should be able to fit about 8 cookies at a time.
Bake for approximately 10 minutes. The oven comes with packets of cake mix and small round pans. Additional mixes can be purchased separately. Kenner had a proven process for developing its toy ideas.
While many other major manufacturers were content to follow trends, Kenner took a harder road by searching for unique product niches. They held regular meetings for brainstorming concepts and sharing ideas. In particular, Kenner representatives saw sales opportunities in toys that copied grown-up activities. So when Shapiro suggested the possibility of a type of oven made for children, his words found the ears of active listeners.
In particular, he caught the attention of Ronald Howes, a well-known toy inventor who was director of new product development and research at Kenner Products. Howes had already found acclaim with his Spirograph and Give-a-Show Projector.
Howes and the rest of the Kenner team set out to create a prototype oven. By , they had their winner. In terms of aesthetics, the first models weren't exactly reminiscent of ovens. They looked a little like asymmetrical plastic robots and came in a choice of yellow or blue. To create culinary delights, children slid loaded pans through a slot and into the heating chamber. Then, they could peer through the teensy window to watch as their pan of brownies baked right before their eyes.
After a few minutes, the cooked product went into a cooling chamber. Then they could dig into their fresh treats or, you know, feed them to their siblings or the family dog.
It didn't take any baking skill or knowledge whatsoever to make the Easy-Bake oven do your culinary bidding. But how, exactly, did this magical box of wonderment work?
The Easy-Bake oven was hardly the first oven designed specifically for children. In the s, metal models burned wood pellets as fuel. After the turn of the century, tiny electric ovens appeared.
Although kids had fun playing with them, none of these early toys ovens elevated themselves to cult status. They also had spotty safety records that made parents wonder whether these were the smartest toys for antsy little hands. For reasons rooted in safety concerns and convenience, Kenner seized on the concept of using twin watt incandescent light bulbs to heat the oven.
One bulb installed above the food tray; the other screwed in below. The idea was that recipes would cook more quickly and more evenly if heat originated from both sides of the food. If you scoff at the idea of light bulbs as heating components, don't doubt the effectiveness of an incandescent bulb's waste heat. Inside the confines of the oven, temperatures ratcheted up to more than degrees Fahrenheit degrees Celsius [source: Kim ].
Thanks to some nifty engineering, later models used only one bulb. Better interior heating dynamics leveraged that one bulb's heat to create a convection effect that cooked just as well as the two-bulb models. The light-bulb-powered design was vital for marketing purposes, too. For most parents, light bulbs simply seemed safe and harmless. Kenner representatives were so concerned about safety perceptions of their product that they initially wanted to call it the Safety-Bake Oven.
Regulatory authorities, however, thought that name was a stretch considering the oven had yet to even hit store shelves and insisted that the company use a name that didn't include the word safety. That holiday season, Kenner sold every oven it produced, amounting to more than half a million units. The next year, they cranked out three times as many, and sales continued rocketing upward.
There is no timer in Easy-Bake land, so I checked the pizzas three times over an hour, waiting for the pizzas to look even a little crisp. Finally, once I saw the slightest shade of brown, I took them out.
I took pictures of them and then put them in my mouth. Honestly, nothing in the concoction even tasted like food. The egg wash flavoring was strong. An hour later I headed out to do a show. During this time, a stomachache grew inside my belly like a demon-child. I know what you're thinking.
Is this really a meal? Well, I often eat Auntie Anne's pretzels for lunch, so yes, this is a meal. Plus there's a cheese-like side dish, so there's my fill of calcium for the day. Like the marinara sauce, the cheese sauce magically changed color with the addition of water.
I had some trouble rolling the the dough into tiny pretzels. I may have small, delicate fingers, but that didn't make it any easier. I put the pretzels in the oven. I took them out. I put them in the oven again. The pretzels would not cook. I took my dog for a walk. I came back. I decided they had to be done. I plated them and sat down. I could not even swallow them, which is so weird for me, because I typically choose swallow over spit. In what seemed to be an emerging Easy-Bake theme, the pretzels never fully cooked.
The cheese was weird and salty. I've often heard that the more colorful your meal, the healthier it is. However, I only got a chocolate chip cookie mix free with my Easy-Bake Oven. There would be no pink sugar cookies for me. Step 1: Lift your hand. Step 2: Move your hand to packet.
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