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.
Edit: Here is the link that says 15 minutes at 350F: https://ecosports.com/blogs/vegan-athletes/how-to-break-in-a-baseball-glove
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.
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.
With leather it usually takes weeks of wearing them at least 5-10h a day
That’s not beak-in, that’s wear/wearing out as the padding gets compressed.
Break-in for leather is where it’s molding to hit your hands, feet, body, etc.
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.
Did you wear them in the oven though?
To add to that, the charred bits make me think they didn’t preheat the oven.