Easy-Bake Ovens Recalled - Again

Latest Move Prompted By Scores Of New Reports Of Kids Getting Fingers Caught In, Or Burned, By Toy

(CBS)  For the second time this year, toy-maker Hasbro is recalling Easy-Bake Ovens due to reports of kids getting their fingers caught in them, and sometimes suffering burns, some of them severe.

Approximately 1 million ovens are affected.

The toy has been among the nation's most popular for more than 40 years.

But in February, after what it and the Consumer Product Safety Commission said were 29 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven’s opening, including five reports of burns, Hasbro offered free retro-fit kits designed to eliminate the danger.

Since then, say Hasbro and the CPSC, there have been 249 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught, including 77 reports of burns, 16 of which were reported as second and third-degree burns. There was one report of a burn serious enough to require a partial finger amputation to a 5-year-old girl.

The Easy-Bake Oven is a purple and pink plastic oven that resembles a kitchen range with four burners on top and a front-loading oven. “Easy-Bake” is printed on the front of the oven. Model number 65805 and “Hasbro” are stamped into the plastic on the back of the oven.

The recall includes all units with the retrofit kit.

The Easy-Bake Oven is an electric toy and isn't recommended for kids under eight-years-of-age.

Ovens sold before May 2006 aren't included in this recall. The units that are were sold at Toys “R” Us, Wal-Mart, Target, KB Toys and other retailers nationwide from May 2006 through July 2007, for about $25.

They were made in China.

The CPSC's Julie Vallese discussed the latest recall on The Early Show Thursday with co-anchor Hannah Storm. To see the interview, click here.

For more on the new recall, and to get a refund form, click here.

[rohink-2009]

How about parents supervising their children when they play with toys that use electricity and heat up? How about parents telling their children not to stick their fingers in places that get hot? Morons........What, are humans so ignorant that they need mandatory regulations and government intervention to protect us?

[geminispyder-2009]

"They were made in China."

1) Nice how CBS dropped that out of nowhere.
2) What isn't made in China anymore?

3) I assume if it said "They were made in the USA", not only would it burn fingers, but if a car hit it from behind, the gas tank would explode killing everyone inside (HA... beat that random-reference dropping CBS!).

[asor1-2009]

ibsteve2u, wouldn't it be great if for just one holiday/gift giving season, we bought NOTHING made in China?

[last121868]

crystalblue3: Did you have the Weeble Treehouse too? I miss mine. Good times!!

[asor1-2009]

mediabrat60
"It is a way to get kids away from the TV"
That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!!
It gets under my skin when I hear parents complain that there kids watch too much T.V.

You are my kind of adult, or is that a bad word?

[missingamerica]

Did ya notice the line tucked way down at the bottom of the story?

"They were made in China."

[mediabrat60]

"It is a way to get kids away from the TV"

That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!!
It gets under my skin when I hear parents complain that there kids watch too much T.V.

Parents are the way to get kids away from the T.V.!!
How'd they get in front of it in the first place?!
My kids are 8 & 15 and rarely sit in front of the T.V unless it is watching a movie together or if they are too sick to do anything else!
Funny, they have this incredible resource called "parents" who they relied on to give them direction in life.

Yes...my daughter owns an Easy Bake Oven...although it is not this model...she used it once.....it has sat in front of the T.V. ever since!

Why do I always by the stuff that doesn't get recalled?!

[asor1-2009]

l8c6 "...they need to learn at the earliest age how to perform under unrestrained conditions."

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, this unrestrained condition has contributed to the overweight problem our youth are facing?

[l8c6]

What ever happened to change the order of things so kids get to decide when they'll sit on their butts and watch TV anyway?
Posted by asor1

I think you need to consider the ramifications of such restriction. If children are to learn to be the next generation of free market business associates they need to learn at the earliest age how to perform under unrestrained conditions. Otherwise parents might condemn their children to a life of submission and servitude.

[asor1-2009]

my2centss
Another way to get the kids away from the TV would be to retake control of your home and turn the stupid thing off during "play" hours, huh?
What ever happened to change the order of things so kids get to decide when they'll sit on their butts and watch TV anyway?

[l8c6]

Hasbro offered free retro-fit kits designed to eliminate the danger. "

NO I'd tel them I want a BRAND NEW ONE with the right stuff- not some home jury rigged patched up krap!
Posted by newster1

I like your spirit. This is how the free market works. Hasbro will improve their product, change the name of their product line or divest the corporate assets and invest them into a completely different market that will advance the capital into the global realm, the latter being a very prudent option. These moves will be ascertained by the financial and marketing divisions of the corporation. This is what is great about america, business is free to travel the world and freely trade with other business partners of varied backgrounds insuring the advancement of a completely private global economy unrestrained from the confining restrictions and oversight of big government regulation that might otherwise have resulted in this company wasting too much capital developing a safer product instead of focusing on the highest profit margin for executives and shareholders.

[my2centss]

Posted by asor1 at 09:43 AM : Jul 19, 2007

It is a way to get kids away from the TV. It also gives them independence, something that they can make, and contribute. If you look in antique stores you can find actual working stoves for kids. They had actual working burners, and and actual oven. Without a lightbulb for cooking.

[missingamerica]

I'm with Omega39, partially. Kids are not getting educated out of their ignorance; slash, kick, and burn video games don't do a whole lot for your mechanical skills.

We've got a whole lot of kids who just don't know that sticking your finger into something you can't clearly see into constitutes an act of stupidity.

[asor1-2009]

Not for kids under 8 years old????
My kids were in the kitchen, baking with me, long before that age.
Why would average parents want their kids doing something like this alone anyway?

[nothappyatall]

Hasbro offered free retro-fit kits designed to eliminate the danger. "

NO I'd tel them I want a BRAND NEW ONE with the right stuff- not some home jury rigged patched up krap!

[rushlimpdrug]

Easy-Bake Ovens - the new weapons of mass destruction?
I cook with it all the time.
It is a little difficult to get the Thanksgiving turkey in it though.
The chineeze design has a thin slanted slot making it difficult to insert a pot-bellied pig.

[my2centss]

It sounds like these things are designed like a Chinese finger trap. Kid that had her finger amputated kind of sounds like that girl at Six Flags that lost her feet.

[crystalblue3]

I had one of these in the 70's. It didn't look anything like this. Also, I never hurt myself. Neither did my brother or sister who played with it while I wasn't around.

I also had the original Weeble Wobbles and I didn't choke. I had the Fisher Price "Little People" too and didn't try to eat those either....

[omega39-2009]

My sister had one of these in the 60s as did millions of kids and you didn't hear about stuff like this. Is this a result of a low cost redesign manufactured in China as some have suggested, or is it that people are becoming dumber? I believe all signs point to the latter.

[uhhuh8]

Heaven help children if an Easy Bake microwave unit comes out.