I wanted one of those but never got one. My brothers got a gizmo that let us bake plastic bugs in aluminum molds that got astoundingly hot. After I made some super realistic roaches and froze them in the ice cube trays before my parents threw a party, the bug-baker was toast.
If she wasn't cute, I would be salty - stock easy bake oven cooking on Gizmodo? If you were using a spotlight in a Ben Heck modded easy bake oven to cook a full-sized pizza that would be another story. What's next, addition with calculators or reading books by lantern light? Oooh, the excitement of new tech!
I remember scorching the hell out of my first little easy bake oven chocolate cake. I ate it anyway and was thrilled to have created something. Now I am all grown up and the cakes come out of the oven perfectly, but none of them will ever be as special as that first burnt offering from my bright yellow easy bake oven.
@Curves: Mine was an olive green easy bake oven that looked like a stovetop oven. I, too, loved the thrill of making cookie-sized triple layer cakes with icing. It was a great way to learn the hard lesson of watching the oven and not trusting the time on the box. Now my big cakes are delicious and well-timed!
I never had an Easy Bake Oven. :( My parents gave me a Creepy Crawlers Oven instead... baking plastic spiders with a light bulb was great fun, but I always wanted to make a tiny lightbulb cake.
@amandizzle: well, all you really had to do was grab an easy bake oven packet and put the stuff into the bug forms. then you'd have edible bugs! (i had a creepy crawlers set myself, t'was fun)
@diverguy: You are a genius. I know the Creepy Crawlers Oven is very nicely stored in my parents' attic. I'm going to have to retrieve it for a very special experiment.
@appletoad: Words can not describe how mad I was that that wasn't a real gadget. I suppose it would be a bit of a pain to get whatever you put in there out though.
@appletoad: OMG I can't believe this is real! That's awesome! But alas, I have an iMac all-in-one. Curse you Mac and your confectionary incompatabilities!!!
Sometimes when I flush my toilet, my TV turns on. Well it only happened once and it was bc I flushed the toilet at the same time someone pushed the power button on the TV. Actually this was not even relevant. Sorry to waste your time.
I have watched folks be able to tell a cell phone is about to ring before it does, and can easily demonstrate a cell phone setting off amplified speakers with a call to one - so, it is no surprise that this could occur. We are holding miniature microwave ovens up to our heads, after all.
What is really funny is I made a pizza last weekend at someone's house, and was using my iPhone within a few feet of the oven the whole time. Despite the oven being set at 400 for 22 minutes exactly like the directions said, the top of the pizza was completely black, and the bottom was still raw. Maybe I suffered from this glitch too.
Edit: And yes, it was a Maytag oven. Just like the on in the picture.
@yankeesrule: When my girlfriend screamed at me for ruining the pizza, we checked, and it was on the dead center rack. Also, the directions said 22-25 minutes, and I only did 22! (I like my pizza slightly doughy)
I like my ovens with a very limited set of moving parts, that being the single big door, the broiler tray, and the knobs. I don't see this doing more than heating up your frozen quiche.
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Food ish pretty tasty. Don't they have the little easy bake oven mixes too?
We also have the same laptop.
I like you.
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Ooooy goooy goodness
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You need one of these: [www.thinkgeek.com]
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/shakes fist
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"When Melnikov ran into the kitchen, he found a piece of plastic cookware left inside the oven on fire"
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Edit: And yes, it was a Maytag oven. Just like the on in the picture.
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Yes, I believe that's the new "Half cooked pizza" app.
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Do you also like your pancakes a little gooey? 'Cuz I definitely do.
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