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I have always broken in my gloves with oil and practice. I decided to hurry this one along by using the suggested oven tip I have heard about in the past. “Oh, just put your glove in the oven!” I never believed them, because I feared it would catch fire. I thought I was wrong. My Easter was ruined today.
Edit: Here is the link that says 15 minutes at 350F: https://ecosports.com/blogs/vegan-athletes/how-to-break-in-a-baseball-glove
So, uh. That glove isn't leather. You don't need to break in a glove that isn't leather, because vinyl isn't going to shape to your hand with oils, etc. the way leather will. Same goes for shoes; unless your shoes are all leather, there's no break in period.
Yes, plastic will melt in the oven. And that's what your glove is. Or was.
Never owned leather shoes an all of them had a "break in period". Probably different to leather but they change drastically the first 5-10h you wear them.
With leather it usually takes weeks of wearing them at least 5-10h a day
That's not beak-in, that's wear/wearing out as the padding gets compressed.
Break-in for leather is where it's molding to hit your hands, feet, body, etc.
You gotta go low and slow. 12 hours (give or take) at 225°F until it gets to an internal temperature of 203°F and becomes fork tender. That way all the collagen and fat renders out.
I prefer to do mine on the grill with a few pieces of a louisville slugger Maplewood bat on the coals. Instead of 12 hours though I wrap mine in foil at about 7 hours when it hits the stall.
I hope you don't throw that glove out. You take it home and throw it in a pot; add some broth and potato, baby you got a stew going!
I think I'd like my money back
It’s not a lie, it’s a prank. I sympathize, but baking a baseball glove at 350 degrees is simply absurd.
I didn't read about it online first, but a friend and I once microwaved some weed to speed up the curing process. It didn't work at all.
At least OP didn't first come across that story about microwaving your IPhone in order to charge it.
There is a microwave technique for drying weed if you want to smoke it quickly. It will taste extremely green though. There’s nothing you can do to replace a good cure.
It’s supposed to be 350 minutes at 15f
LOL below freezing for 6 hours
That'll break anyone
I'd still eat it. Just scrape off the burned bits with a butter knife, it'll taste the same underneath. The texture might be a bit off though
I don't play, and have never tried this. But from the instructions I'm seeing online, is either microwave method or heat up the oven and then turn it off before putting the glove in.
That's also looks like it's melting, is it actual leather?
Betting it’s not leather. Leather doesn’t melt. It will burn, but never liquify. It clearly appears that the outer layer liquified. Also this screams prank to me, but good quality, oiled leather should also hold up ok to 350 for 15 mins.
I wouldn't trust any oven based methodology because most have ancient barely functional electronics. Like the temperature control circuit could be orders of magnitude better for a total BOM cost of ~$1-$2, but they ship with absolute garbage instead. The overshoot, undershoot, and relative average are all wildly random. Every model and likely every unit are vastly different. Every unit I have taken apart is the same turd junk like electronics in a different dress.
That doesn't help now. Sorry for the bad day.
What even is the thought process behind why this would ever work anyway? Would heat make the leather a bit more pliable or something?
still looks a bit tough. are you sure you got it up to 190 internal?
Well I didn’t see a red, plastic, internal thermometer pop out, like you would see on a turkey. It made for one surprising Easter roast.
I didn't know anything about this, but was curious and looked it up. Most methods say to turn off the oven before you put it in, some say a lower temp. I found one result that said 350 for 15 minutes, but it said to watch it closely the whole time. I don't think your glove would have burned if you were watching it, things just don't burn so fast that you can't catch them before they turn black if you are watching it the entire time. I don't know if warming up a glove helps it, but it does seem like you didn't follow the instructions properly, and after cross referencing should have done the oven off method.
When I used to play I’d just put a new glove under my mattress for a night or two and it was good enough. Sucks you were misled about the material it was made from.
Did you see this work on Ticktok?
I have never used TikTok. In fact, I have refused to ever use TikTok, SnapChat, and Twitter (despite starting an account to enter some contest for The Walking Dead years ago). I just feel like some platforms attract certain personality types that I try to avoid when I’m relaxing.
I have a very hard time believing you didn't smell this before it got to this point. It's got holes in the fingers this shit was probably smoking out of the oven setting off the smoke alarm.
I wouldn't say this is mildly infurating. :/
Oh, it's a baseball glove.
Looks like it was too close to the heating element/flame
Scrape the burnt bit off with a butter knife it's still good under there
The char is part of the texture.
I've used the oven method for two different gloves, but used shaving cream on the first one and a specific treatment foam on the second one. It's been 10 years since I last played, but I remember putting it on a cookie sheet and we turned the oven off before placing the glove in.
Sucks this happened to ya. Hopefully somebody around you has a spare you can borrow until you can figure out a replacement and get it broken in.
Olive oil, baseball, heavy rubber bands.
Treat the palm and heel of the glove with olive oil and massage it in. Moving the glove open and closed. Do with your hand in the glove and open and close it too.
Then after 20 to 30 of this. Wrap the outer pinky part of the glove around the ball into and under the thumb. Wrap it with the runner bands. Put it anywhere overnight.
Should be good to go for initial breaking in. Actual breaking in happens when you catch and play with it too.
You didn’t pre heat the oven, exposing the glove to the oven’s full power. It needed to already be hot before the glove went in.