AIBU to put sandals in the oven?

[northlundunmum]

DS (4) walked into the sea wearing clarkes leather sandals and they are still damp 2 days later. There's no heating or airing cupboard in our holiday rental. WIBU to put oven on to 50 degrees and stick them in there for a couple of hours? DH says NO but I think it might work. Any sane advice from you wise MNetters?

They will most likely catch fire after a couple of hours!
Try stuffing with kitchen roll/ newspaper and a hairdryer?

Ive put wet shoes on the boot shelf in the back window of the car before when the car was parked in a sunny spot. A couple of hours and they were dry as a bone.

Lmao what? No!

It seems illogical that stuffing shoes with paper instead of letting the air circulate should dry them out sooner, but it really does seem to work.

However if they're still very wet, I might consider washing out the salt water before stuffing them with paper.

If the oven is at 50 deg, then the shoes aren't going to catch fire no matter how many hours they've been in there.

I used to dry shoes in the aga. I wouldn’t use a regular oven. It will ruin them!

My riding tack gets regularly soaked-it has to dry slowly (and then be treated) otherwise it will crack and become brittle.

Wtf??

Ah thank you sensible people. We don't have any newspaper but Hairdryer is of course a much more sane option. We are in lovely but slightly damp Cornwall and nothing (towels, cosies...) is getting dry. I'm off to pull out the hairdryer....

I'm glad you didn't microwave them op. It sounded like a 999 call in waiting.

From a "safety" point of view, I dried a pair of trainers in the oven once and they were fine.

Not sure what effect seawater (did you rinse them?) and an oven would have on leather though. Is there a heater you could leave them on/by?

is the sun shining at all?
the oven seems a sensible option.

You need to give them a rinse in fresh water or they will stay damp and sticky. Then maybe wrap then in a towel to absorb as much water as possible and put them by an open window. Good luck!

can you leave them in the car, oh, suggested already. seems like a good plan

Noóooooooooooo!!!

I 3rd the parcel shelf in the car. Tis a miracle worker.

They won't catch fire at 50 degrees... Unless there have been many cases of spontaneous sandal combustion in Dubai, or Delhi, or Doha on a hot day?

Ok I'm.going to put this out there

I washed my converse and put them on whisks stood up in a flowerpot on the window sill in the kitchen- dried in two days

( Waits for comments )

I used to bake my pointe shoes (with shellac inside) to harden them and they were fine. Primarily not leather though, apart from the soles. However, when I did it with worn ones, they smelt to high heaven and made the oven stink.

I second stuffing full of paper and sticking on the parcel shelf or out in the sun.

I'm your own home? Fine. In a holiday rental? Not fine. Please don't do this.

Thanks all. Sandals safely hair-dried and not oven-baked. I handn't thought of the smell it would make Shiney! You are right that would not have been pleasant.