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• HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Freeman@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With leather it usually takes weeks of wearing them at least 5-10h a day

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not beak-in, that’s wearing out as the padding gets compressed.

      Break-in for leather is where it’s molding to hit your hands, feet, body, etc.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you wear them in the oven though?

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  • anguo@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To add to that, the charred bits make me think they didn’t preheat the oven.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dream_weasel@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• korny@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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!

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  • DickFiasco@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think I’d like my money back

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  • Synthuir@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay, Éowyn…

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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hahahahahahahaa

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  • Masamune@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIP Carl Weathers

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not a lie, it’s a prank. I sympathize, but baking a baseball glove at 350 degrees is simply absurd.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone knows you want to broil it

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    • FlaminGoku@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I sear mine on both sides first.

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• WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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• Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?

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  • invertedspear@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It might have been real leather. It smelled like it, as it burned. The online sites I read said nothing of turning off the oven. Everyone who swore by this said to put it in there at 350F for fifteen minutes.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And also it’s like 200°, gloves wrapped in foil, and constant checking. At least for waxing gloves for ski resort employees.

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  still looks a bit tough. are you sure you got it up to 190 internal?

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He didn’t wrap it at the stall and it dried out.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What even is the thought process behind why this would ever work anyway?

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It softens it. I put olive oil on it first, as many sites suggested, and other players have suggested. I used to break in my gloves with throwing after oiling them. I would also leave my gloves in a hot car to soften in the heat, with a ball inside of them. I am so mad right now. Today was ruined. I didn’t get to watch Easter mass online because of time zones, I missed watching (in person) my kids open Easter baskets I made, and then my damn glove caught fire. God, why?

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• skooma_king@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not a bad idea. I usually just put my glove in a hot car during the summer, but I didn’t have a chance to order a new glove last summer.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you see this work on Ticktok?

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you been diagnosed as being on the spectrum yet?

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, I smelled it burning. It still had 7 minuets to go.

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• frosty@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t say this is mildly infurating. :/

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• NaoPb@eviltoast.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, it’s a baseball glove.

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• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your Easter was ruined because you don’t have common sense. Sorry, but that’s just idiotic.

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, I have plenty of common sense. You don’t have any manners. Plenty of people have successfully used the oven trick to quickly soften a new glove. I’m sure if it had been 100% leather, it would have softened and not burned. The idiotic move was buying a cheap glove that was probably vinyl, and probably produced in China.

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    • venoft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The no common sense part refers to you putting a plastic glove in the oven.

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    • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fwiw the ecosports website seems entirely devoted to promoting sports equipment made from TPU, which is plastic, not leather

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The char is part of the texture.

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• INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Scrape the burnt bit off with a butter knife it’s still good under there

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like it was too close to the heating element/flame

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• static09@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shaving cream then crank oven to 400, turn off and glove in is how I did all mine as a youth

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re right, and I usually do that to break in a glove. I lost my old glove and I had to break this one in quickly. I tried a new method and it failed.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, I preheated it. It was at 350F before I placed it in the oven. Maybe the glove is just cheap. Maybe the method works on 100% leather gloves.

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• CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oooo I love a lil burnt crust loaf, I’d eat it!

  (then I saw the stitches)

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• HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forbidden squash (or something)

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• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least you can say the experience was lit

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• Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To break in a glove

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  • andyspam@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was fantastically relevant and awesome. Thank you.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You took “Hot Stove” a bit too literally

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• Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sorry about your glove. I hope you can take comfort in the fact that every time i see this picture, it makes me chuckle. But no pressure :)

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