Easy Bake

[derekl_1963]

The King Arthur Flour company tests an Easy Bake Oven in their test kitchen.

I so wanted an Easy Bake oven as a kid, but I don't think I ever got up the gumption to actually ask for one. Actually, I don't recall my input ever being solicited (at least overtly) when I was growing. Christmas and birthdays stuff just showed up... Some years more than others (depending on whether we had money or not that year), but I was never particularly bothered one way or the other.

I actually started getting interested in food and cooking when I was about 10 or so, but a bad scalding incident put me off from going into the kitchen for years. After I left home, it kind of faded for years, though I did continue to collect cookbooks... It wasn't until about ten years or so back that I got serious about cooking again. I don't even know why, it just happened.

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[karenlm.livejournal.com]

For the record: I didn't have an Easy-Bake Oven and I DID ask, so it's just as well you saved your breath. I would've been happy to have Kelly's when she tired of it, and I think that had originally been Judy's so potentially an original. Maybe Wendy got it.

I did have a not-an-Easy-Bake oven, in 3rd grade, but soon ran out of the little mixes. Theoretically, i could use Tablespoonfuls of regular mix when mom was making a cake. But after once or twice, she just let me make the actual cake in the actual oven. So, I'm sure they felt even the cost of the not-an-Easy-Bake was a loss overall.

I also burned my finger on the exposed lightbulb.