How many of you out there remember the Eazy Bake Oven and did you have one while you were growing-up?

i remember 'em, but i never had one.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Shit I use to have one, I would be in my room for hours baking cakes and shit.

My sister had one...it perhaps should've been some strong foreshadowing about what was to come in our family...but on nice summer days, I'd be inside using her easybake oven and she'd be outside using my baseball glove...

endorphin74 said:

I had one and LOVED It... i am thinking about getting my neice one..

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Ditto: Too funny.

yeah I had one but I was always running out of the food supplies and my mother would make me wait until christmas or my birthday to get more. I really loved that thing...I wonder what ever happened to it.

Paisley said:

Like the Lite-Brite, I have no idea where it is now. I assume that my mother probably sold both of them during a garage sale many years ago.

matt said:

You had an Eazy Bake oven?
I thought that was a girl thing.

I never had one myself. I remember thinking that only the rich kids got stuff like that.

minneapolisgenius said:

I think that's what it was... a device that looked like a toaster oven, but with a light bulb for a heat source, that made little cakes?



Well, my parents certainly weren't rich back then. Some days my dad would have to borrow coins from my piggy bank for bus fare to get to work. He wrote most (if not all) of his best-known book (Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism) in an unheated den in the house where we lived... brrr!

I never had one. My mom didnt let us have anything
that would "make a mess". Sucked for me!

matt said:

Yep. That's the Eazy Bake Oven.

I really don't remember if it was considered an expensive toy back then, but I remember my mom saying that she wouldn't buy something for us that would just break after a few months, that we'd lose interest in it, and that that tiny light bulb would never actually bake anything all the way through.

I loved my Easy Bake oven and bought one for my niece a few years ago, cause I remembered how much I loved it.
There's even new EZ Bake Oven news! They are coming out with a gourmet cookbook for the oven. I read an article in Bust magazine about it last month, but found this when I googled:

http://www.lsj.com/lifest...ke_3d.html

Published 5/2/2003
New cookbook has gourmet recipes for Easy-Bake Ovens

Nostalgic cuisine: Celebrity chefs took a trip down memory lane for "The Easy-Bake Oven Gourmet," which contains recipes for use with the popular toy first introduced 40 years ago.
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By Maria Peunte
Gannett News Service

Cookbooks by celebrity chefs are so ubiquitous that no one notices anymore, but a cookbook by celebrity chefs for the Easy-Bake Oven? Now that's a new twist.

Yes, the Easy-Bake Oven is still selling 40 years after it was introduced as one of the first "activity toys" for girls. Once scorned by feminists as the ultimate in toy genderization, the little oven that cooked by light bulb is now a pop-culture icon as popular as ever - and not just with girls.

To celebrate the anniversary, toymaker Hasbro will introduce a new model this fall, the Easy-Bake Real Meal Oven, which cooks with electrical power. No more light bulbs.

But for the nostalgic, the classic version will still be available, which is why "The Easy-Bake Oven Gourmet" (Running Press, $15.95), in stores now, could come in handy. Author David Hoffman asked 26 chefs to share their Easy-Bake recipes and talk about how the original turquoise-colored oven - "Just like mom's!" - influenced their culinary careers.

Bobby Flay, who contributes his recipe for queso fundido with roasted poblano vinaigrette, tells the story of how, at age 8, he badgered his parents into getting him an oven despite disapproval from Dad, who thought his son needed a G.I. Joe.

Contributors include other chefs with TV shows, cookbooks and restaurants: Mexican-food specialist Rick Bayless offers his recipe for chilaquiles with roasted tomato salsa. Caprial Pence suggests a wild-mushroom flan. Mary Sue Milliken gives up her shortbread kisses. "It was one of the first toys I remember really desperately wanting," Bayless reminisces.

Hoffman, 49, got the idea for the book while making the rounds of daytime talk shows to promote an earlier book, "Kid Stuff: Great Toys From Our Childhood." He'd show up with a bag of vintage toys, and all the women would make beelines for the Easy-Bake Oven. "For baby boomers, especially, it was an iconic thing from their childhood, and they all either had one or lusted after one," says Hoffman, who wanted an Easy-Bake himself as a child but wasn't allowed to have one in those gender-rigid times.

By the late '60s, Kenner Toys, original maker of the ovens, was selling more than 3 million a year, plus related products such as baking pans, warming trays and blenders. Meanwhile, the ovens changed color and shape to match the times. "In the old days, it had a June Cleaver look to it; now it looks like a microwave," Hoffman says.

matt said:

I also had a lite-brite, damn I wish I was little again.

i still cook on it today!!! they made 'em better back then!!!

i miss my Lite-Brite too...and my cabbage patch kids...my little ponies...my atari...

ahhh...the good old days...

Did anyone else have the Holly Hobby oven? I may have been the only one.

applekisses said:

Nope, never had it.

Shiiit, I'm tempted to go buy one right now. My sister had one. She is 7 years older than me, so I didn't get to play with hers and I never got one of my own, but I always wanted one

Paisley said:

THIS IS IT!



I remember when I ran out of the cake and pie mixes my parents wouldn't buy me any more because they 'were too expensive and full of chemicals' so, unless I found something to cook in the oven, it was useless...
I decided to try HAMBURGER of all things... and I remember my mom yelling at me that I would A) start a grease fire or B) get worms 'because you can't cook hamburger with a lightbulb'

applekisses said:

:LOL: :LOL:

IstenSzek said:

and the nerve of my mother...acting surprised when she found out my sister was a big ol' dyke and I was a queer...



CarrieMpls, I think they've done gone and taken the EZ Bake too far!

I remember making a german chocolate cake and kept saying mommy taste my cake it's good