Comments on: Test kitchen tackles the EasyBake oven.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:40:53 +0000

My daughter is 16 and wants her third easy bake for Christmas! She cooks all kinds of things in it. Meatloaf, hamburgers, cakes, potatoes and vegetable medleys! Your never too old for easy bake! Keep the recipes coming.

By: ali

ali — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:51:02 +0000

can i put ingreetinents in a real oven?

By: Stacey, library Mom

Stacey, library Mom — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:20:29 +0000

I just had to comment here. At one point, KAF offered some kiddie pans that were just the size of MY old Easy-Bake oven pans. I bought them for my daughter, and we cook her baked goods in the toaster oven. More control over temperature, more portions at a time since two pans fit, and the oven is out of her reach for opening.

Her 1st birthday cake was her own size layer cake that she helped mix! It also preserved a regular cake for the rest of us, while still letting us take 1st birthday cake photos…

If you ever offer these mini pans again, I’m buying more sets for friends with kids…

Stacey, stay tuned - kids’ mini pans will be available online within a matter of a week or so? And in the next catalogue, Aug. 4. Along with some SUPER kids’ mixes we developed… YUM. - PJH

By: tar

tar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:29:46 +0000

I had an Easy-Bake oven when I was younger. It was fun and all, but the novelty wore off quickly enough, parts were lost, and anyway baking with Mom or Grandma was a million times more fun.

What I’d like to know is why anyone thought the Easy-Bake Oven needed a redesign in the first place, considering the newest version goes back to the “push in side 1, bake with lightbulb, pull out side 2″ method of Easy-Bakery and all. If anything, making it look more like a real oven only encourages kids to try and be Big Girls and be Just Like Mommy and use the actual, real, far more dangerous oven. After all, what little girl *didn’t* get pretend or Barbie makeup at some point and then decide to experiment with Mommy’s real stuff, with disastrous results?

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:41:31 +0000

I guess I’m a lucky one. My 10 year old got that easy bake 2 years ago and used it over and over and was crushed when it was recalled. She sometimes had issues getting things out but quicky figured it out. I found some recipes online and she would sit there mixing things like 4 tablespoonfuls of flour with a drop of vanilla… she even used to use the top to melt chocolate and dip strawberries.
We got her the new one, and she is still thrilled. I think she is happier because she knows she can use it and I don’t have to ‘mother’ her and take things out of the oven!
I get too nervous with my 3 daughters (10,7,3) because I spent too much time working in a burn ward!
She said it would be a dream for her to grow up and work at KAF!!

By: Jill Rhodes

Jill Rhodes — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:53:19 +0000

My daughter who is now 49 years old had one of the first EasyBake ovens when she was about five. She created and created and rapidly graduated to a real oven, with help of course. Today, every morning she grinds her own wheat to make her own flour to make her own bread, makes English muffins and things I can only dream about. That little light-bulb oven was the start of a remarkable baking and cooking talent.
I was sorry to see the poor-looking excuse for an oven when the new one came out. She didn’t buy one for her girls.

By: Nina

Nina — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:33:53 +0000

My daughter had one of the early models that baked with the light bulb. I’m sorry to say we never had any trouble at all, baking with either their mixes or some of the batter from one of my real cake projects. That’s with mom’s supervision, of course, but who wouldn’t?

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:00:23 +0000

This model was recalled because so many kids got burned. It’s the design. If a hand is stuck in the oven, it won’t come out or by the time it does, it’s burned. I sent mine back and got a refund, but didn’t replace it with the newer model. My results looked a lot like the photos. Over time, I adapted the oven pan to use with regular Duncan Hines mixes and put things like M&M’s in the batter instead of doing icing. But, the truth is that my kids just prefer to do real baking with Mom! Anna

By: ancameni

ancameni — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:50:45 +0000

I had purchased an easy-bake oven for my daughters. They were already used to my baking and it was such a mess to make and to bake and it did not look to great. It did not go over well. My kids are now 12 and 8 and unfortunately have no interest in making dough or batter but scooping, licking and eating.
When i was little (mumble-mumble years ago) my grandmother had bought a real oven for me. It was like a real oven. It could be preheated, had a cookie sheet and oven rack and two electric stove top burners. I had little cook and bake ware to go along with it. It was the greatest thing for me to get some leftover batter and bake my own cake. Also insisting that my cake tasted better than grandmas.

By: Bobbie Shahan

Bobbie Shahan — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:02:20 +0000

Oh,thanks for good laugh!!!! My two oldest Daughters were kindergarden and first grade when I first considered an Easy Bake type for a Christmas gift. I did a bit of research, other freaked out Moms who had purchased an oven as a gift for their Kids. I ended up going to the store and buying regular Brownie mixes, etc. How would I ever be able to divide the results of the baking evenly enough to avoid a fight?? I figured a regular sized mix would have enough dough to allow for 10 licked fingers, a Blop on the floor, and a good enough reason for Mom to help with the regular oven. Worked pretty well and got them wanting to do more. And this memory was 47 years ago. BAS