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
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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.
10 hours doesn’t count as a break in period. Good leather boots can take a couple hundred hours. Good leather boots can also last thousands of hours longer than cheap boots.
Did you wear them in the oven though?
To add to that, the charred bits make me think they didn’t preheat the oven.
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
Okay, Éowyn…
Hahahahahahahaa
RIP Carl Weathers
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.
Everyone knows you want to broil it
I sear mine on both sides first.
Rotisserie for best results
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
still looks a bit tough. are you sure you got it up to 190 internal?
He didn’t wrap it at the stall.
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.
I wouldn’t say this is mildly infurating. :/
Oh, it’s a baseball glove.
Scrape the burnt bit off with a butter knife it’s still good under there
The char is part of the texture.
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.
Oooo I love a lil burnt crust loaf, I’d eat it!
(then I saw the stitches)
Forbidden squash (or something)
At least you can say the experience was lit
