[tyingq]

"For those of us of a certain age, there was a toy that was quite popular: the Easy-Bake Oven...Rather than having a more normal resistive heating element as you find in a normal oven, though, a special light bulb was mounted in the oven, and the waste heat from the bulb would heat the oven enough to cook the food."

I can't find any evidence that the Easy Bake oven used a "special" light bulb. It just used 2 normal 100 watt incandescent bulbs as far as I can tell. Tungsten is a normal resistive heating element, pretty common in electric furnaces.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Premier_...

Though there was a 2006 redesign that apparently didn't go well: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2007/new-easy-bake-oven-recall-...

[asdff]

I have this Panasonic toaster oven that has the usual element, plus this super intense bulb. When it fires on it's as bright as the sun, and all the other lights dim slightly in my apartment. I've never had a better toaster oven.

[markc]

>Easy-Bake Oven

You can buy a Panasonic FlashXpress toaster oven and get the Easy-Bake experience. Great toaster! Fast and very predictable. It starts cooking immediately and every toast cycle is the same duration. In a regular toaster oven it takes a while for the heating element to get hot before it starts to actually toast the bread. If you immediately cook a second batch of toast for the same amount of time it burns.

[Baeocystin]

The one I played with as a kid used oven light bulbs. They look pretty much the same, but solderless construction, and IIRC quartz glass and a slightly more robust filament.

[tyingq]

Hmm. Any idea roughly what year? The manuals I can find online all say "standard light bulb".

Like:

https://imgur.com/a/uF9ffe1

https://imgur.com/a/F7WwpGg

[Baeocystin]

Huh. Interesting. This would have been the late 70's/early 80's.