15 minutes at 350F is a lie.
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.
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?
I’ve never heard of this and I’ve got absolutely no idea if this is a real thing or if you got pranked as someone said. But assuming it’s a real thing, I can think of two possible explanations why it went so badly for you:
First option, you used a toaster oven instead of a regular oven. The surfaces closest to the heating elements in this case get exposed to a lot more heat than the rest of what’s in the oven. If the heating element is exposed, it’s a toaster oven.
Second option, your oven’s temperature knob isn’t calibrated well enough so it got way hotter than it needs to be. Honestly I’ve got no idea how well these are usually calibrated. I have the exact same model toaster oven as my parents and theirs gets way hotter for the same knob position. But it’s a cheapo brand (I can barely bring myself to call it a brand) so I hope it’s better in the broader market, and maybe proper ovens are better calibrated than microwave-sized toaster ovens.
On second look, the burn marks are obviously only on the top surface so I’m pretty convinced you used a toaster oven. The difference is like standing in direct sunlight vs in the shade. When you’re in the shade the only thing heating you is the air, when you’re in direct sunlight the sunlight itself is heating you. You can also feel a similar effect when sitting around a fire - your skin facing in the direction of the fire gets toasted while the rest of you, or parts of you that are blocked from it, are cooler.
TL;DR you toasted your mitt
The tag does not say the glove is made of leather, that’s simply the Franklin “leather series”, a meaningless marketing term meant to trick people.
The Franklin page clearly states those gloves are made. of “synthetic leather”, e. g. Polyurethane, Vinyl etc.:
franklinsports.com/field-masterr-tan-series-baseb…
Plus, the synthetic leather comes with a pre-formed pocket which is designed to break in exactly to your liking quickly and easily.
EASY BREAK IN: The soft synthetic leather material is lightweight and responsive […]
You put a plastic glove in your oven at 350. By the way, depending on the material, in particular when talking about Vinyl, burning it may release incredibly toxic fumes, although that mostly applies to PVC. Depending on the details, I’d still considered that oven ruined though, at least for food.
I get that this sucks in more ways than one, but how the heck did you not actually check the complete material composition… almost all modern items are a mix of different materials anyway.
The tag does not say the glove is made of leather, that’s simply the Franklin “leather series”, a meaningless marketing term meant to trick people.
Ugh, are there no consumer protection laws against this shit? Or just no enforcement?
IMHO this is misleading/false marketing. In the food market this would never fly, at least not in most western countries. In my country you can’t even call almond milk almond milk because it’s technically not milk, even though there’s nothing misleading about it… So why wouldn’t the same apply to non-food products?
I honestly don’t know if there’s laws against it outside of food in my country, and I suspect there’s little to no enforcement even if there are laws… But saying LEATHER GLOVE ~by the way it’s synthetic leather~ is exactly the sort of thing laws should protect against.
Your glove caught fire because you put it in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes, when leather will readily burn at 210 degrees. I don’t know how other people are pulling it off, as googling around pulls up the same instructions you apparently followed.
I never believed them, because I feared it would catch fire.
Seems like you knew better, which must make this more frustrating. Nothing stings quite like a self-inflicted wound.
As for the Easter stuff, that’s really all about your personal situation and your belief system.
Already been evaluated. Not ADHD. It wasn’t an impulse decisions. Major league players advise using the oven method, and even the microwave:
www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=caple_ji…
I also don’t drink beer.
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.
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.
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.
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