Easy Bake Oven Loses Its Bulb

Easy Bake Oven Loses Its Bulb

The latest version of the famous toy oven first marketed in 1963 with a carrying handle and a fake stove top is now all curves and purple and snazzy graphics. And -- perhaps most shocking of all -- it comes with a new instruction: No light bulb necessary.

Chalk it up as an unintended consequence of the federal government's move to phase out the incandescent light bulb. The compact fluorescents that are becoming the new standard for household use are so energy efficient that they're useless in baking a brownie -- or any of the other miniature treats the Easy-Bake has been cooking up for nearly 50 years.

Initially, news of the death of the 100-watt bulb prompted rumors that the Easy-Bake might be going the same way. Instead, the toy got its 11th redesign, at the heart of which is a new heating element much like that of a traditional oven.
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This "innovation" is an abomination!

Ugh! Next someone will get rif of the hot little colored light bulbs on Lite Brite and make Rock'em and Sock'em a live action movi e.

pairs4life wrote:Ugh! Next someone will get rif of the hot little colored light bulbs on Lite Brite and make Rock'em and Sock'em a live action movi e.

It has happened. You can tell it's Mattel, they yell!

I'd rather see the Easy Bake Oven live action movie.

Pie Lady wrote:I'd rather see the Easy Bake Oven live action movie.

In a cold, dark world, a 7-year-old girl holds onto the last bastion of light and warmth...until it's suddenly gone. Join little Susie on her journey to Gordon's Ace Hardware for the last 100-watt bulb. Will she bake brownies in her room again, or will the filament of her soul, and our nation's history, have burned out forever?

EASY BAKE
Coming 2012.

The Easy Bake oven was one of the toys I coveted but never got. As an adult, I understand that parents are reluctant to buy a toy that needs supply replenishing (cake mixes) but I still wanted one, dammit. Last month I found a vintage 1950s Easy Bake-type oven and snapped it up for $15. Apparently it still works. I see experimentation in my future!

HI,

I not only have an Easy Bake Oven. Courtesy of Josephine, I have an Easy Bake Oven Cookbook with celebrity chef recipes. If my 8-year-old niece visited more, it would be fun to cook together.

My best friend Cathy had an Easy Bake Oven. I didn't. She wasn't especially interested in playing with it. It appears the novelty already faded by the time we met. Every once in a while, we would do some 'baking.'

While I didn't have an Easy Bake Oven, I did have an oven and mixer I was free to use at home. It still didn't deaden my itch for the real deal Easy Bake Oven.

Regards,