How do you preheat an easy bake oven - Hasbro Easy Bake Essentials Bake Wear Set

If you use manufacturer aproved parts, there will be a warranty on them.

Modern ovens are much slower to preheat than older models. In some cases it is because they only use the bake (lower) element, while the older units used both the bake and the grill (upper) elements to preheat. If this is a new condition of your oven, check for malfunctioning oven element(s). A loose or intermittently non-functioning element will create a slow heat-up.

After the preheat cycle you must enter time (baking time) again and push enter/start.

Most likely the problem is your bake element. When the oven is preheating it uses both the bake and the broil element. When it's done preheating it uses only the bake element, so the broil element is heating it up, and since the bake element is not working the temperature drops until it starts preheating again.

This is likely the temperature probe. This controls the temp inside the oven. It is easy to check and replace. Here is a link that should help http://appliancehelponline.com/oventempprobe.html

does the oven bake properly when it does reach temps?
if this is a newer oven, with a hidden bake element, they do take longer to preheat so may not have any problems, just give it about 15 minutes to preheat.
if it is older and doesnt bake right, then you may have a bad bake element.
the unit will heat but wont bake right.
unplug the oven and take the bake element to your local parts house, they can check it and sell you a new one if needed.

I know that you need to plug in the oven and let it preheat for 15 minutes. As far as the mixes go I think there are different directions for each one. Usually just tsp or so of water. You can go here:
http://www.hasbro.com/easy-bake/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=CEFA30D8-19B9-F369-1014-E55D66C42EAA&src=endeca

It's the hasbro site. They have "recipes" which will basically tell you how much water to put in. Click download under the picture of the girls playing with the easy bake oven and it will bring them all up.

P.s. There are all kind of "real" recipes online. If you google "easy bake oven recipes" it comes up with oodles of them! Some of them actually sound pretty good. And most of the stuff you probably already have on hand.

Hope I helped! Happy baking!

slow to preheat??? long cooking times??? smell gas while in operation???. all signs of a bad oven ignitor retails for about 60-65. easy enough to replace reomve the lower panle of the oven itself and you'll see the ignitor right there 2 ***** mount that to the bake bar and pull it out, unplug the wire harness, plug in the new one and remount.Start baking

Cold Stove, you may not be able to. The issue here is that oven manufactures put on their units a fast preheat. However it isn't possible to preheat an oven for 7 to 9 minutes and bake short time bake items properly. Also the oven sensor will respond faster than the absorbation rate of the sheet metal in the oven liner. To preheat an oven properly takes 15 to 20 minutes before putting in the food. I see this will a lot of current ovens. Sounds like a normal format of the control.

looks as though youre circotherm element has blown (open circuit) you will need to remove oven and check with multimeter should read around 35-37 ohms on 2.5 kilowatt heater if open circuit will need replacing easy to do on most ovens and no too expensive around £30-£35 for element depends on model and output power.

hope this helps