Gabriel Kline and Bill Collins on food safe glazes

About this episode

Gabriel Kline and Bill Collins discuss food safe glazes and their new book on the topic.

Have you wondered what makes a glaze food safe? Today we are happy to welcome Gabriel Kline and Bill Collins to the show to talk about the topic, and their new book Amazing Glaze: Food Safe Recipes . They discuss the definition of food safety, how to test glazes, and what they learned after testing dozens of popular cone 6 and cone 10 recipes. Have you checked out the new For Flux Sake Patreon? This is a great way to show your support and have access to discounted merch, live hangouts, and extra episodes. Head over to Patreon and sign up today. Today's episode is brought to you by Monkey Stuff , The Rosenfield Collection , Cornell Studio Supply , and Ceramic Materials Workshop's Making Glaze Make Sense . This week's episode features the following topics: Food safety, leaching, crazing, cone 6, cone 10, shino, phase separation

People in this episode

Hosts: Kathy King, Rose Katz, Matt Katz

Guests: Gabriel Kline, Bill Collins

Topics covered

• food safety
• glazes
• testing glazes
• cone 6
• cone 10
• leaching
• crazing

Keywords

• food safe glazes
• testing glazes
• cone 6 recipes
• cone 10 recipes
• leaching
• crazing
• shino
• phase separation

Sponsors

Monkey Stuff, The Rosenfield Collection, Cornell Studio Supply, Ceramic Materials Workshop

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: For Flux Sake

Books & works: Amazing Glaze: Food Safe Recipes

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