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National Easy-Bake Oven Day is celebrated on November 4 every year. Baking in an Easy-Bake Oven is a satisfying and rewarding experience. You know what we’re talking about if you had one as a child. If you didn’t, it’s never too late. Pretending to be an adult is fun when you’re a kid (also, the only time it is exciting). And the Easy-Bake Oven provides the ideal recipe for playing a fairly accurate game of pretend. The early models of Easy-Bake Ovens utilized the excess heat from incandescent bulbs to heat the oven — talk about innovation. Dry powdered mixes, sold with the oven and separately, are used to prepare the cookie dough.

Who would have thought that bulbs could bake cookies? Yet someone did. At Kenner Products, a salesman named Norman Shapiro returned from a sales trip with the inspired idea of making a toy oven using incandescent bulbs that would bake cookies. During his sales trip, he saw street vendors keep pretzels warm using a contraption that employed light bulbs. Eventually, his idea reached the ears of Ronald Howes of the “Give-A-Show Projector” fame.

For the ones who are scoffing at the thought of baking using light bulbs, with the right design, the temperature can rise up to 350 degrees Celsius. In 1963, the iconic Easy-Bake Oven quickly became the hottest selling product. Ever since, it has continued to receive the love of children. More than 500,000 Easy-Bake Ovens were sold in the first year. By 2013, 30 million Easy-Bake Ovens and 150 million packets of cookie mix (and other mixes) were sold. That’s a lot of tiny meals from tiny chefs.

 

 

[JoeM 8,860]

For the newest generation.......Now it is use the app to order cookie delivery day!

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 29,296]

2 hours ago, JoeM said:

For the newest generation.......Now it is use the app to order cookie delivery day!

 

 

Sad... but true... easy bake with door dash... 

[Treepep 830]

 

 

I always disliked that my sister got one and us guys did not.  Food in your room!  Win!