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.
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 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!
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.
It’s supposed to be 350 minutes at 15f
