Death of the Easy Bake oven... no more young aspiring chefs.

[ed629]

Thanks to the ban on incandescent bulbs, youngsters will no longer be able make sweet and tasty cupcakes. No more cookies, no more baked confections. I gonna hoard these things.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/is-the-light-bulb-ban-a-bright-idea-6459591

 

[MHT1138]

I had an easy bake oven, I only used it a little though. I loved the idea having one though.

 

[Data Holmes]

My neighbor had one... None of the food produced from it was edible.

 

[Squiggy]

I gonna hoard these things.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/is-the-light-bulb-ban-a-bright-idea-6459591

Hoard shitty food cooked by kids or hoard useless easy bake ovens?

 

[B.J.]

What's funny is that last year, when we got my 7 year old daughter her Easy Bake Oven, there were literally hundreds of the toys stacked on top of the toy shelves just before Christmas. And I expect that most of them sold, too. Gonna be a lot of upset little girls out there when they can't use their ovens anymore.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The Easy Bake Oven isn't going anywhere, it's just been redesigned so it doesn't use incandescent bulbs.

This thread can be closed now.

 

[Paradon]

Can't they just use ceramic heating elements? I guess they're too expensive.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Easy Bake ovens sucked back in the day and they still suck. You want to enjoy baking with your children do it right! Myself I don't bake so I leave that to the ex-missus.

 

[The Castellan]

Always thought banning them was a bit silly.

 

[Trekker4747]

Seriously, has the Easy Bake Oven ever produced something edible?

It makes me think of a an episode of "Friends" when Ross and Monica are gathering their childhood things out of their parents' garage and they come across an Easy-Bake Oven and Monica boasts about how it began her career as a chef. Ross quips, "I thought it began your career as Monica Geller: Raw Batter Eater."

Monica snaps back: "It's unreasonable to expect an eight-year-old to wait for a lightbulb to bake brownies!"

As someone noted above and as I expected, the Easy Bake people will simply find some other means to make their oven work. If I can have a counter-top grill than can get up to several hundred degrees to cook a steak on a single 120-w outlet plug I'm sure a oven could be built using the same coil-heat source design.

Hell, the Easy Bake Oven might actually come out better and more useful out of this. I mean using a lightbulb to cook baked goods? The might as well have told you to set the batter outside in the driveway.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Who needs Easy Bake Ovens? My sister used to fry cheese directlly on the light bulb of her bedside lamp, she didn't need an expensive toy. However one day, after months of grilling cheese her light bulb exploded so she stopped doing it.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Seriously, has the Easy Bake Oven ever produced something edible?

It makes me think of a an episode of "Friends" when Ross and Monica are gathering their childhood things out of their parents' garage and they come across an Easy-Bake Oven and Monica boasts about how it began her career as a chef. Ross quips, "I thought it began your career as Monica Geller: Raw Batter Eater."

Monica snaps back: "It's unreasonable to expect an eight-year-old to wait for a lightbulb to bake brownies!"

As someone noted above and as I expected, the Easy Bake people will simply find some other means to make their oven work. If I can have a counter-top grill than can get up to several hundred degrees to cook a steak on a single 120-w outlet plug I'm sure a oven could be built using the same coil-heat source design.

Hell, the Easy Bake Oven might actually come out better and more useful out of this. I mean using a lightbulb to cook baked goods? The might as well have told you to set the batter outside in the driveway.

Incandescent bulbs are actually more efficient as heaters than as light bulbs. About 90% of their EM output is infrared rather than visible light, so at least it kind of makes sense to use them for "baking."

 

[David cgc]

Wow. Somebody should get on making more efficient bulbs that expend most of their energy on visible light.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I had an Easy Bake Over as a child. They were fun...even if the little cakes were not very good.

 

[The Castellan]

Wow. Somebody should get on making more efficient bulbs that expend most of their energy on visible light.

Where as those fluorescent bulbs buzz and flicker to the point one feels nauseous. I prefer either the incandescent bulbs or the LED's.

 

[B.J.]

Wow. Somebody should get on making more efficient bulbs that expend most of their energy on visible light.

Where as those fluorescent bulbs buzz and flicker to the point one feels nauseous. I prefer either the incandescent bulbs or the LED's.

And for me, the wavelength of light that most LEDs put out give me an instant sharp headache that doesn't go away. So I guess I need to invest in candles?

 

[TheSeeker]

My sister had an easy bake oven when we were kids and I remember liking the cake mixes she made. It would be interesting to sample one now.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, I don't remember the food from the Easy Bake Oven being terrible.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Wow. Somebody should get on making more efficient bulbs that expend most of their energy on visible light.

Where as those fluorescent bulbs buzz and flicker to the point one feels nauseous. I prefer either the incandescent bulbs or the LED's.

Not all the CFLs do that, although I'm sure the poor quality ones might. The ones I have are midrange and don't flicker or make any noise at all (at least none that I can detect.)

 

[marillion]

^ Agreed, but they sure as hell look different.. Two vanity lights above the mirror in our master bathroom needed replacing and I accidently bought CFLs... I didn't realize my mistake until I screwed them in and turned them on... Completely different color of white and (after warming up for a minute or so,) were so blindingly bright I took them out. WAY too much light for that space... Stupid me..