Hasbro has recalled 985,000 Easy Bake Ovens because there are a reported 246 cases of children getting burned by the ovens. This is 0.025%. So let's see if I have this correct?

Children use an oven that has a heating device and get burned. I don't want to see any child get hurt but I have to wonder---how do you make an oven "safe" for children?

The Easy Bake Oven has been around since 1963 and there has been over 16 MILLION ovens sold in 40 plus years. From 1963 to 2006, the heating device was a light bulb. Light bulbs do get hot and will burn you if you touch them for any length of time.  I'm not sure what the heating device that is currently being used and is the reason for the recall. I suppose this change was to facilitate quicker cooking times. There seems to be a cause and effect in play here.

Don't parents teach their children not to touch a real stove or fire because they will get burned? Wouldn't this lesson also translate to a toy that gets hot? Is it because it IS a toy, that parents think that they don't have a responsibility to teach and monitor their children at play?

How much damage can a baseball bat do if little Johnny decided to hit little Tommy over his head with it? Does this make a baseball bat inherently dangerous? Of course not.

As a child, I used to have a wood-burning set. This was a VERY hot iron that would burn patterns in wood. If I would touch the hot end, I would get burned---guess what? I didn't touch the hot end. Of course, you can't find any of these in toy stores today. Try and find lawn darts or chemistry sets.

I'm willing to bet that years ago, little Billy was playing with his chemistry set and decided to ingest some hexamethyleneteramine and then went outside and got impaled by a lawn dart because lawn darts are dangerous.

And the Darwin Award goes to...

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