Many of us have fond childhood memories of scarfing down delicious, undercooked treats courtesy of the old Easy-Bake Oven, but it looks like today's chefs-in-training have a little more to worry about than runny brownies: Hasbro is recalling almost a million of the toys because of a risk of burns and trapped extremities. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, about 985,000 Ovens sold between May 2006 and the beginning of this month contain a potentially dangerous defect, wherein children can receive a nasty burn on their chubby little fingers after getting them trapped in the oven's opening. So far there have been 29 reported incidents of stuck fingers and five reports of burns, prompting Hasbro to release a retrofit kit that apparently remedies the problem and sports a helpful warning label. Owners of the affected models should immediately pull their rugrat away from that soufflé he or she is baking and stick the Easy-Bake on a high shelf until the kit -- which is free
by request -- arrives in the mail. In the meantime, this might be a good opportunity to review the whole "stop, drop, and roll" procedure and teach your tykes to apply burn cream, just in case another one of their toys (
Flamosapien, perhaps?) gets a little hot under the collar.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Boynamedsue @ Feb 6th 2007 2:20PM
i've had no problems with their easy bake vaporizer.
netposer @ Feb 6th 2007 2:34PM
29? out of almost 1 million and they have to recall. Where are the parents of these children?
Anonymous @ Feb 6th 2007 2:39PM
LOL... I had to take one away from my 6 year old daughter after my 12 year old son and next door neighbor kid decided to use it to make some brownies, Mary Jane style. No comments as to what happened to the brownies.
Matt B @ Feb 6th 2007 2:56PM
If your kids don't understand that touching hot objects can hurt then don't buy an oven for them.
Matt B @ Feb 6th 2007 2:58PM
Oh, and getting their fingers caught is NOT a defect, it's user error. I'm sure the manual clearly states that the opening is not for sticking your hand in.
Mack Swift @ Feb 6th 2007 2:59PM
Where's the version I can install in my car?
Scabies @ Feb 6th 2007 3:11PM
re: netposer
probably in court. Why else would they issue a recall on a .0035% casualty rate?
pixelbender @ Feb 6th 2007 3:13PM
Maybe if the kids had good enough parents to make them use Splenda in their runny brownies they wouldn't have chubby fingers to get stuck in the first place!
Will someone please THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?
Michael @ Feb 6th 2007 4:34PM
(I used a wrong password, but it might double-post anyway. I'm sorry ; ; )
The Easy-Bake Oven was inducted into the National Toy Hall-of-Fame in 2006.
It beat out the Atari 2600. Yes, the Atari 2600. I don't know how either...
I couldn't understand it then, and it makes even less sense now. Who is more deserving: the first successful video game system that sparked the entire industry, or a 3-in. cake/pinky-finger cooker?
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/entertainment/15979675.htm
The Man @ Feb 6th 2007 8:57PM
Mikey, there's an EASY answer to your query: One toy is still being sold in mass quantities today while the other stopped being cool exacly 20 years ago, mmmkay?