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I've got Easton EQ50 skates and well, I've got a brand new oven at home... And don't particularly fancy spending £20 ($32) for what I can probably do at home QUITE easily...
Here are the directions I used to bake my wife's at home. Personally I would get my skates done at a shop for fear of messing them up, but since she was never going to pay for that I decided to do this for her. The process was easy and it worked pretty good.
Break your skates in the old fashioned way you *****!
I've never had skate problems i.e blisters ever, and I've never baked my skates because I don't need to. If new skates hurt your feet they probably don't fit you correctly.
Break your skates in the old fashioned way you *****!
I've never had skate problems i.e blisters ever, and I've never baked my skates because I don't need to. If new skates hurt your feet they probably don't fit you correctly.
I tried that... 2 years later I decided to bake them after years of pain and they felt ten times better. Modern skates with composites are designed to be baked, not broken in.
I tried that... 2 years later I decided to bake them after years of pain and they felt ten times better. Modern skates with composites are designed to be baked, not broken in.
If they are still hurting after that amount of time, there's something wrong...
Break your skates in the old fashioned way you *****!
I've never had skate problems i.e blisters ever, and I've never baked my skates because I don't need to. If new skates hurt your feet they probably don't fit you correctly.
This is completely false, and you are the exception, not the rule. Don't go spreading misinformation, it does no good to anyone.
I would never bake them at home, I'd be too worried to mess them up, it's worth paying for.
When skates were made of leather breaking in was the same thing.
With composites, plastics, fiberglass the material resilience is much higher and requires heat for it to properly shape to the user's foot. The only part you break in is the padded lining inside the skate.
Still incorrect. A bake isn't breaking them in, it's fitting them to your feet properly.
Sorry, neither of you are completely correct, you both have correct parts haha.
Baking is necessary to achieve the right fit in certain circumstances, such as a properly fitting boot everywhere except for a hotspot or two on the ankles. A bake should alleviate that problem, but that doesn't necessarily mean the skate doesn't fit.
Baking would also be highly advised to do with certain skates that were designed to be baked, such as the CCM U+ CL or U+ Pro. Boots with composite outers (APX, T1) are also designed to be quite heat reactive as well.
In general, a bake is a means of minimizing the break in process/time.
It's not mandatory, but under certain scenarios it would be HIGHLY recommended.
