SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Easy Bake Ovens Work

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Easy Bake Ovens are as iconic as a toy can get, as American as apple pie or baseball. Learn all about these light bulb cooking, working ovens that endanger children to this day, in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.6	Well, friends, we've reached the end of our playlist,
0:09.2	The Stuff You Should Know, 12 Days of Christmas, Toys.
0:13.1	This one is one of my all-time favorite episodes,
0:16.6	not just toy episodes, but favorite episodes,
0:18.8	the Easy Bake Oven, which had this huge cultural impact and still does today.
0:23.9	If you want to make somebody nostalgic, just say Easy Bake Oven
0:27.1	and watch their eyes well up with tears.
0:29.6	It's really fun.
0:30.9	At any rate, we want to thank you for joining us on this journey through our Christmas toy episodes.
0:36.2	We want to wish all of you happy holidays and Merry Christmas from Stuff You Should Know.
0:45.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:11.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. There's Ramsey over there, the Yuge, which means it's time for stuff you should know. Nostalgia edition, colon T.S. Hodgman.
1:14.2	Yeah, we've done a few toys.
1:19.8	Plato, Slinkies, right?
1:20.8	What else?
1:24.1	Does a boomerang count as a toy?
1:26.8	It's a way of life, mate.
1:29.8	We've done tons.
1:30.9	We did silly putty.
1:31.8	Silly putty, sure.
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