Oh my God!!! You’ll never believe what I saw at the toy store the other day. Last week I went to KB toy stores because I was walking around the mall. When I approached the KB toy stores, I saw a new device through the window. “Hmm, what is this?” I wondered. I walked up to this “thing” and upon closer inspection discovered what it was: an oven.
It is an oven that young children can use to bake products. And it’s pink. Hmm, doesn’t that sound familiar? Doesn’t this sound like the Easy Bake Oven?
Here’s the difference: This oven, the Disney Princess Cool Bake Magic Oven, uses COLD air to bake food. That’s right, not a typo, it uses COLD air, ice cubes to be exact, to cook the products. So you mix up your baking mix, put it on a tray, put your ice cube on the tray below, and wait for the cold air to cook your cookie. So instead of getting a hot cake, you get a cool cake. Isn’t this interesting? I wonder what the cake/cookie tastes like. I’m going to give it a try. How many of you actually think that cold air cookie will taste better than hot air cookie? I don’t think it tastes good, do you?
Do you think Hasbro knows about this copycat invention? Well, I guess it’s not really a knockoff because the technology is different: cold air versus hot air.
The great thing about this Disney Princess Cool Bake Magic Oven is that no one will be able to tell it’s burned. But still, can’t a child choke on an ice cube? Can’t a child get ice burns? Can’t a child accidentally break their finger on the ice tray? Sounds like this toy can be just as dangerous as Hasbro’s Easy Bake Oven that uses heat, right?
At the end of the day, parents are responsible for the toys they buy. Anything can be dangerous, that’s why supervision is needed. Don’t buy a toy for your children if you don’t have time to supervise them. If you want to buy your child a toy that doesn’t require supervision, buy him one of those big plastic balls and hopefully it won’t have lead paint on it.