Today Puck Drawn Hockey is going to be taking a look at baking the Hokey skates from home. This process may resolve some of your fit, reducing the overall break-in time of a brand new pair of hockey skates, giving you a nice custom fit.
The reasons that you might want to bake your skates?
If you have some sore spots inside of brand new pair of skates or you just want to speed up the time it takes for the skate to take to the shape of your foot if you’ve got a brand new pair of skates.
It’s important to mention that heat making the skates isn’t a necessary process.
Some skaters prefer to skate on their skates. Which is the more traditional way of breaking them into using them, and over time, they’ll begin to take the shape of your foot.
This key, baking process is just a quicker way of doing this. It’s not necessary; some people prefer different options. It is just one of them. It’s also essential to mention that if this process is done incorrectly, it could result in a premature breakdown of the skate. So you need to follow the instructions of your specific skate.
There is no universal rule for all of them. Some skates do have slightly different needs and requirements to do this process from home. Make sure you check out the instructions on your skates like the length of time it needs to be in the oven and also the temperature that your skates need to be baked out.
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How To Bake Your Ice Hockey Skates From Home?
I am going to show you how to do this process from home just using a standard conventional oven gas or electric.
- Preparation
We’re just going over some of the things that you need for the skate baking process from home.
You’re going to need a standard conventional oven gas or electric. It doesn’t matter which one. You’re going to need your brand new pair of skates that you want to heat mold.
You’re going to need a chair to sit on after the healing process is complete, and you’re also going to need a baking tray. Which would explain how you use that in the process. Also, you’re also going to need some oven cloths or a tea towel. Just something to remove the skates from the oven after they’ve finished baking, so those things you’re going to need to carry this out.
- Baking Hockey skates in oven
Step 1: Take a look at the oven.
One of the first things you need to do is just take a look at the oven. That you’re going to be using, make sure that there’s enough clearance because you’re going to be putting your skates in there with the baking tray underneath them, you need to make sure there’s enough space to put the skates in this. That’s one of the first things you need to do after you’ve connected all the equipment that you need.
Step 2: Preheat the oven.
After that, you’re going to need to preheat the oven. Remember, some skates have different rules just to take a look at the instructions and your skates before you do this process.
The skates that I am going to be using are my new mission for you or ADX skates. I’ve had a look at the instructions on my box. These skates need to be in the oven for seven minutes under 180 degrees. That’s the temperature that they’re going to need.
- If you’re using an electric oven, all of the temperature stats are displayed there for you so you can just go ahead and set it to 180 degrees.
- If you’re using a gas oven, it’ll have just a number one two seven traditionally to get 180 degrees.
- You’re going to roughly need to set it between five and six, that’s what I’ve done.
I’ve turned my oven on and set it between five and six loc. I am going to let it preheat with the door closed for about ten minutes.
Step 3: Turn the oven off and put the skates in
Then I am going to turn the oven off and put the skates in there with a baking tray underneath them.
It’s important to make sure that the baking tray at this point is set on top of the oven. I am not going to put the baking tray in the oven. Because it will be hot, and I am going to burn any of the materials or design on the skates.
Therefore, the baking tray is sitting on top of the oven.
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Step 4: Baking the skates
I am going to get the baking tray, put the skates on top of it, turn the oven off and put the skates out. They’re going to stay out for seven minutes while they get nice and soft and heat-molded, ready to mold to the shape of my foot.
- Molding your skate
After I put them on once, they’re out so we’ll just take a look at the next part of this article, and I’ll explain exactly what you need to do.
Step 1: Preheating
I’ve got the oven preheating at 180 degrees with the door closed. I am just going to get my skates ready. How do you get them ready for this process is just to undo all of the laces as I’ll just show you. But very quickly, you just want to loosen the skate up so you can get your foot in it, very easily and quickly once it comes out the oven because you want to put your foot in there.
Remember once the ovens preheated, or it’s been preheating for about 10 minutes, you need to remember to turn the oven off before you put your skates in there because we only want the skates to be surrounded in the same temperature of about 180 degrees. You don’t want any direct heat being applied to the scape because that will cause damage.
When the materials are nice and soft and moldable, it takes to the shape of your foot. Very quickly and effectively. What I’ve done is just don’t loosen the skate up, remove the laces far back enough. So I can slip my foot into the skates without any delay.
As we said earlier, that will also cause them premature or degeneration or break and breaking down at the skate. You don’t want that; you want your skates to be surrounded in the same or uniform temperature while it’s inside the oven. So it can help materials to get soft and ready for molding.
I am done all the laces, so there’s enough space for my foot to get inside the skate quickly without having to the handles escape too much because then the eyelets if they’re metal. They’re going to be very hot, and the blade at the bottom of the skate is going to be very hot as well. That’s what we said that you’re going to need something to remove them from the oven with.
The gate escapes, ready just under the laces. Make sure you’ll be able to stick your foot in there very quickly and easily once they come out of the oven, and they’re nice and soft.
The ovens have been preheating for 10 minutes. It’s had the right temperature that I want to mark my skates with.
Step 2: Put the skates into the oven
What I am going to do now is just go ahead and turn the oven off. My skates are nice and ready. All the laces are undone. There’s enough space for my foot to slip in there nice and quickly while the skates are nice and soft and moldable.
The next bit is just going to be getting the baking tray, put the skates on top of that, and then putting them into the oven. Then, I put my skates on the baking tray, and I am going to pop them into the oven. 
Before I put the skates into the oven, I just wanted to do a quick stiffness test on the skates. When I am just done squeezing the skates, they are very hard round the edges, and the reason I am doing this is once the skates are ready and moldable and at the point where I need to put my feeds into them.
All of these materials will be nice and very soft, so squeezing these I’ll be able to the skate will have a lot more give once they’ve come out of the oven. That’s how you know they’ll be ready. They’ll be nice and soft.
Step 3: Check on the skates
How do you make sure the skates are fine in the oven?
What we’re going to do is just and check on the skates at about three or four minutes into the baking process or remove them from the oven. Using my hand on glass for two thousand three centers that I don’t burn my hands.
I’ll take the skates out. I’ll quickly check the stiffness of them, see if they’re ready to be molded yet. If not, I’ll put them back into the oven. When the ovens have been pretty heating for about ten minutes, I’ve got ahead and turn the oven off, putting my skates on the baking tray that we said that we’d be using earlier on.
The instructions on the mission fuel box said they needed to be in the oven for seven minutes. So what I am going to do is leave them in there for that time. But after about three or four minutes. I am just going to open the oven up just check how the skates are doing.
You should notice the significant difference in the stiffness of the skate at this point. It should be a lot softer than it was when you put it inside the oven. But as we said, it needs to be in there for seven minutes. So I am going to go ahead and pop it back in the oven.
I am just opening up to make sure that everything’s molding as it should and the skates okay. It’s important to close the oven door very quickly after you’ve checked on the skates just to make sure that you leave as much of the heat.
That’s inside the oven as possible still in there, don’t let too much heat to escape from the oven which will alter the temperature inside there and that might affect the process of your skate baking. You want it to be done correctly.
*Note: One of the other tips that I wanted to add while you’re taking the skate out of the oven to check how the progress is going after about halfway through the baking process. What you need to use oven gloves or something to remove the skates with just to make sure you don’t burn yourself, you want to avoid coming into contact with the blade of the skate and also if your eyelets a metal. You want to avoid coming into contact with those because they might be very hot, and you don’t get burned. Be careful while you’re removing them the oven could you don’t burn yourself.
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Step 4: Finish baking
When I’ve done, I’ve gone got myself a tea towel to remove the skates from their lives because they’re going to be very hot. Check the stiffness of them and see how they’re getting on.
As we said, it’s very important to make sure. You close the oven door, so no heat escapes from your skates are very quick. Now that is a lot softer than it was when it went in there much much softer still needs a few more minutes before it’s ready we can see the skates fine. So I am just going to go ahead and pop it back in the oven.
The skate still needs three or four minutes left. After that, I’ll sure what comes next, the baking process is completely done. When they’ve been in there for seven minutes, if you take a look at the em stiffness of them, you can see that this is a lot softer. I can do that easily, squeezing those.
Step 5: Molding the skates
My eyelids are okay to touch; they weren’t too hot. But be careful because yours might be slightly hotter than mine. But a minor plastic or not metal. So it’s okay for me to touch them as they’re not too hot. I am avoiding the blade is that’s going to be very hot, so I go and quickly put the skates on while they’re nice and hot and warm and ready to mold to the shape of my foot.
I am just going to go ahead and lace these skates up. It’s important to make sure that you don’t pull too hard on the eyelets as the skates are very soft off to the baking process, so I am just placing them up. I am not put them too hard, make sure the tongue is nice and square. Then your first nice and even you don’t want it bent, some of the tongues on skates are also heated moldable, make sure that you get the best fit out of that as well.
I am just slowly working my way to the top making sure, I don’t pull too hard in the eyelets. I don’t want to cause them too much strain again, making sure the tongue is nice and centered. So I finished in the laces up.
Step 6: Waiting for 15 minutes
I am just going to sit with the skates for about 15 minutes. Allow the skate to mold to the shape of my foot. It’s important to make sure at this point. Don’t walk around on the skates, sit still and allow them to mold to the shape of your foot.
One of the positions that you can sit in while you’re waiting for the skates to mold just slightly tuck them under your chair that just puts a bit more forward flex on the skates is this the position that you would and primarily be standing in while you’re on the ice. That’s another tip to use while you’re doing the baking process.
If at this point you feel that the skates are a little bit too narrow you can stand up that just helped to add a bit more width inside the skate. At the same time, the skates molding to the shape of your foot. But you don’t to be walking around on the skates because they’ll put unnecessary strain on them.
You can stand up to add a bit more width to the skate. But if you’re sitting down, just try to have your skate slightly tucked under your chair. Just to put a bit more forward flex on the time god.
Step 7: Let it cool for 24 hours
After the heat baking process is complete, you need to take the skates off the lace. Them back up and put them in an upright position to cool for 24 hours before you use them that just allows the materials to harden in the new position. You’d only use it before the 24-hour walk because you could cause damage to the skate. You need to wait until the materials reharden and are suitable for the skating run again.
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