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Top chefs join call for gender-neutral Easy-Bake

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Top chefs join call for gender-neutral Easy-BakeMcKenna Pope,13, left, plays with her brother Gavyn Boscio, 4, in their home in Garfield, N.J. on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Pope started a petition demanding the toy company Hasbro make its Easy-Bake Oven more boy friendly. She was inspired to do so when Gavyn put the oven on his Christmas wish list and she and their mother, Erica Boscio, found the toy only available with girls on the packaging and in pink or purple colors. The petition garnered more than 30,000 signatures in a little more than a week. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)(Credit: AP)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl’s call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven.

Chefs including Manuel Trevino of TV’s “Top Chef” and Michael Lomonaco of Porterhouse New York are featured in a YouTube video posted Tuesday applauding McKenna Pope’s online petition. The 13-year-old from Garfield started the petition when she went to buy an Easy-Bake Oven for her 4-year-old-brother but discovered it comes only in purple and pink.

The chefs are echoing Bobby Flay, who agreed that Hasbro should make an oven in other colors to appeal to boys.

In the short video, Lomonaco and other chefs in his kitchen cheer on McKenna.

New York chef Spencer Rubin asks Hasbro: “Please make an Easy-Bake for dudes.”

A spokesman for Hasbro did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

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