Easy Bake Oven for a boy?

[bas71873]

Thanks for all the encouragement! We do a lot of cooking around here. He has some of his own tools as well as a RR kid's cookbook and a Paula kid's cookbook. I thought the easy bake would be a fun gadget and a nice little flash back for me (my Daddy lovingly ate all my little sponge tasting creations! lol) but after the reviews here (and on Amazon) I might look into something else. I like the idea of cooking classes; maybe I can get a gift certificate for that instead.

Do you have Young Chef's Academy in your area? they have cooking classes, etc. all geared toward the kiddos!

 

[java]

Eh not a fan of the easy bake.

What I did for my cooking crazy son- was buy him some cool- kid safe kitchen tools(like a wisk, spatula, his own apron, a child safe cutting knife.)
He likes cooking with me- really cooking. He can make scrambled eggs(started at 4) on his own*with my supervision on the stove.

The easy bake really is just gathering dust in our house. I bought it really for me!

 

[roscoepc1]

Men who can cook get the girls. I have a nephew and a cousin who prove that!

I'd try and get him a non-pink one, and not worry about what ANYONE says!

My sisters boys all used an Easy-bake! They had just as much fun with one as my girls do!

 

[jacksmomma]

Do you have Young Chef's Academy in your area? they have cooking classes, etc. all geared toward the kiddos!

I am not sure, I will have to google and see. I wonder what their minimum age requirement is?

 

[dogodisney]

If you think he would like it then get it for him. Look at all the famous MALE chefs that are ot there.

For a birthday present I made a young boy (I think he was 5 at the time) that we know, an apron and chef's hat. I also got him a kids' cookbook and some cooking utensils. He liked it.

 

[bookgirl]

My nephews liked to cook (expecially one of them), so I bought them a easy bake when they were about 7 or 8. Around christmas time they are cheap and I figured if we got a year of play it would be worth the 15 bucks. They LOVED it. It was blue. They could mix and stir and push in the pans and in 15 minutes they got to eat. And it did only last about a year, by the next year one was totally not interested in cooking and the other had graduated to making scrambled eggs on the real stove. But we had a lot of fun with it.

PS at 10 they have decided that eating is better than cooking but the one twin still will cook and he loves the blender. Whirring blades and cool noise so beats stiring eggs on the stove.

 

[msmama]

I was looking at EZBake ovens to buy my friends 3 yo recently. The age on them is 8+ so I didn't. I don't know WHY that's the age, but that kept me from buying it for someone else's kid.

I got my DS (18 mos) a Learning Tower so he can stand and work with me at the counter.

Oh, and I guess your family wouldn't like the doll I got my son for his first birthday.

 

[WantToGoNow]

The 8+ age suggestions is because it is an electrical item and gets hot enough that those little metal pans can burn. My dd5 got one when she was 3 and ds(was 5) loved playing with it and eating all of the gross little cakes and cookies.

Another couple of things ds wanted when he was little was a play kitchen (could only find pink/purple that year) which he got and a Little Tykes dollhouse like the one they had at daycare. That style dollhouse had long since been discontinued but we finally found one at a consignment shop. He loved playing with it "with" his sister. She got her own dollhouse last year and now they play together all the time. When his friends come over (he's 8 now), they just assume that it belongs to his sister and he sure doesn't correct them.